The 38th issue of Uncanny Magazine, winner of five Hugos and a British Fantasy Award, will be available on January 5.

Hugo Award-winning Publishers Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the 38th issue of their five-time Hugo Award-winning online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Uncanny Magazine. Stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. As always, Uncanny features 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. 

All of Uncanny Magazine’s content will be available in eBook versions on the day of release from Weightless Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo. Subscriptions are always available through Amazon Kindle and Weightless Books. The free online content will be released in 2 stages — half on day of release and half on February 2. 

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 38 Table of Contents:

Cover:

• Stars and Blessings by Nilah Magruder

Editorials:

• “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• “Imagining Futures: Where Our Works Go from Here” by Elsa Sjunneson

Fiction:

• “Tyrannosaurus Hex” by Sam J. Miller (1/5)
• “A House Full of Voices Is Never Empty” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard (1/5)
• “Pathfinding!” by Nicole Kornher-Stace (1/5)

• “Distribution” by Paul Cornell (2/2)
• “Femme and Sundance” by Christopher Caldwell (2/2)
• “Beyond the Doll Forest” by Marissa Lingen (2/2)

Reprint:

• “In That Place She Grows a Garden” by Del Sandeen (2/2)

Nonfiction:

• “Weird Plagues: How Fear of Disease Mutated into a Subgenre” by John Wiswell (1/5)
• “Milk Teeth” by Octavia Cade (1/5)

• “Trash Fantasias, or Why Mass Effect 3’s Ending Was Bad Actually” by Katherine Cross (2/2)
• “Hayao Miyazaki’s Lost Magic of Parenthood” by Aidan Moher (2/2)

Poetry:

• “Medusa Gets a Haircut” by Theodora Goss (1/5)
• “Kalevala, an untelling” by Lizy Simonen (1/5)
• “bargain | bin” by Ewen Ma (1/5)

• “Fish Out of Water” by Neil Gaiman (2/2)
• “What The Time Travellers Stole” by L.X. Beckett (2/2)

Interviews:

• Miyuki Jane Pinckard interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (1/5)

• Paul Cornell interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (2/2)

Podcasts:

• Episode 38A (January 5): Editors’ Introduction, “Tyrannosaurus Hex” by Sam J. Miller, as read by Joy Piedmont, “Medusa Gets a Haircut” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Sam J. Miller.

• Episode 38B (February 2): Editors’ Introduction, “Femme and Sundance” by Christopher Caldwell, as read by Matt Peters, “What The Time Travellers Stole” by L.X. Beckett, as read by Joy Piedmont, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Christopher Caldwell.