The 56th issue of the Uncanny Magazine, winner of seven Hugos and a British Fantasy Award, will be available on January 2 at uncannymagazine.com. 

Hugo Award-winning Publishers Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the 56th issue of their seven-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, Sturgeon, 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 Weightless Books. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on February 6. 

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 56 Table of Contents:

Cover

• Resurrecting Venus by Galen Dara

Editorial

• “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction

• “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal (1/2)
• “A Recipe for Hope and Honeycake” by Jordan Taylor (1/2)
• “Do Houses Dream of Scraping the Sky?” by Jana Bianchi (1/2)

• “An Elegy of Soil” by Natalia Theodoridou (2/6)
• “La mandíbula del río” by Ana Hurtado (2/6)
• “The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei” by Cheri Kamei (2/6)

• “A Contract of Ink and Skin” by Angela Liu (1/2)

Nonfiction

• “Scalzi on Film: When Fun Becomes Homework” by John Scalzi (1/2)
• “Lest We Become Possessed” by Alex Jennings (1/2)

• “A Novel Is an Empathy Engine” by Cecilia Tan (2/6)
• “Dance Dance Matrix Revolutions” by Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne (2/6)

Poetry

• “Six of Swords Becomes The Emperor” by Ali Trotta (1/2)
• “We Drink Lava” by Ai Jiang (1/2)

• “fowlskin” by C. S. E. Cooney (2/6)
• “genesis” by Sodïq Oyèkànmí (2/6)

Interviews

• Jordan Taylor interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (1/2)

• Natalia Theodoridou interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (2/6)

Podcasts

• Episode 56A (1/2): Editors’ Introduction, “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal, as read by Erika Ensign, “We Drink Lava” by Ai Jiang, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Mary Robinette Kowal.

• Episode 56B (2/6): Editors’ Introduction, “La mandíbula del río” by Ana Hurtado, as read by Matt Peters, “fowlskin” by C. S. E. Cooney, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Ana Hurtado.