The twenty-second issue of Uncanny Magazine is available today at uncannymagazine.com.

Hugo Award-winning Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the 22nd issue of their 2016 and 2017 Hugo Award-winning online science fiction and fantasy magazine, featuring passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture, along with a Parsec Award-winning monthly podcast featuring a story, poem, and interview from that issue. Stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards.

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 22 Table of Contents

Cover

• Julie Dillon- Ocean Magic

Editorial

• The Uncanny Valley (5/1)

Fiction

• Naomi Novik- “Blessings” (5/1)
• Katharine Duckett- “Sucks (To Be You)” (5/1)
• Marina J. Lostetter- “Discard the Sun, for It Has Failed Us” (5/1)
• Kelly Robson- “What Gentle Women Dare” (6/5)
• A. Merc Rustad- “If We Die Unjustified” (6/5)
• C.L. Clark- “The Cook” (6/5)

Reprint

• Aliette de Bodard- “In Blue Lily’s Wake” (5/1)

Nonfiction

• Greg Pak- “Dislikes the Sea, but Will Venture Upon It If Necessary” (5/1)
• Briana Lawrence – “At Face Value” (5/1)
• Kelly McCullough- “In Defense of Escapism” (6/5)
• Elsa Sjunneson-Henry- “Burlesque and the Lens of Rewriting” (6/5)

Poetry

• Theodora Goss- “Persephone in Hades” (5/1)
• Ali Trotta- “Lorelei” (5/1)
• Sarah Gailey- “What Grew” (6/5)
• Betsy Aoki- “Okuri Inu, or the sending-off dog demon” (6/5)

Interviews

• Katharine Duckett Interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (5/1)
• A. Merc Rustad Interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (6/5)

Podcasts

22A (5/1)

• Naomi Novik- “Blessings,” as read by Stephanie Malia Morris
• Theodora Goss- “Persephone in Hades,” as read by Erika Ensign
• Ilana C. Myer Interviewed by Lynne M. Thomas

22B (6/5)

• Kelly Robson- “What Gentle Women Dare,” as read by Erika Ensign
• Sarah Gailey- “What Grew,” as read by Stephanie Malia Morris
• Kelly Robson Interviewed by Lynne M. Thomas