Eleanor Arnason

Searching for a worthy foe to conquer, a warlike alien race encounters humankind, leading to years of skirmishing that might be solved by diplomacy, except that there is a human traitor among the aliens

Ring of Swords

A Woman of the Iron People

In the Light of Sigma Draconis (A Woman of the Iron People, Part 1)

Mondadori

Meduse

Legoprint

Sigma draconis

To the Resurrection Station

Daughter of the Bear King

Tochi Onyebuchi

Yoon Ha Lee

Tananarive Due

Ellen Kushner

C.S.E. Cooney

Shaoni C. White

Chimedum Ohaegbu

The July/August 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Tananarive Due, Eleanor Arnason, Shaoni C. White, Tochi Onyebuchi, Ellen Kushner, and C.S.E Cooney. Reprint fiction by Yoon Ha Lee. Essays by Nisi Shawl, Troy L. Wiggins, Nino Cipri, and C.L. Clark, poetry by Minal Hajratwala, Betsy Aoki, Ali Trotta and Octavia Cade, interviews with Eleanor Arnason and C.S.E. Cooney by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Alexa Sharpe, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

July/August 2021

Uncanny Magazine Issue 41

Driven by her own curiosity, Lixia, an earthborn anthropologist, follows a female outcast called Nia across a strange and perilous world. Reprint.

In the Light of Sigma Draconis

Aliette de Bodard

Elizabeth Bear

Indrapramit Das

Garth Nix

Rich Larson

E. J. Swift

Carrie Vaughn

Genevieve Valentine

David D. Levine

Jonathan Strahan

Conflict is Eternal We have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a battle that began with fists and sticks, and ended on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Beyond here lies another war, infinite in scope and scale. But who will fight the wars of tomorrow? Join Elizabeth Bear, Indrapramit Das, Aliette de Bodard, Garth Nix and many, many more in an exploration of the furthest extremes of military science fiction…

Infinity Wars

Patricia S. Bowne

Catherine Lundoff

Naomi Kritzer

Mark Rich

Kristine Ong Muslim

Patricia Russo

Hank Quense

Tony Pi

Gerard Houarner

Katherine Woodbury

F. J. Bergmann

Stephen Dedman

Ann K. Schwader

Sue Isle

Lyda Morehouse

James P. Roberts

Terry A. Garey

Martha A. Hood

S. N. Arly

Stephen Couch

Michael A. Pignatella

Terry Faust

Camilla DeCarnin

Sandra Lindow

Cornelius Fortune

Terry Leigh Relf

Tales of the Unanticipated #29

One thing you can say for sure about Big Mamas and Big Poppas: their lives are never dull. The quirky, nearly omnipotent members of the colorful tribe of Big Mamas and Big Poppas rove the Universe, able to leap vast expanses of time and space in a single bound. Little can harm a Mama or Poppa, except large, mythological monsters and world-historical trends. And yet they do have their problems. In Big Ugly Mama and the Zk, for instance, Big Ugly Mama re-discovers why she dislikes time-travel, which she had hoped to use to put right the harm she has inadvertently inflicted on a zk. In Big Green Mama Falls in Love, Big Green Mama discovers just how life-threatening a Big-Mama-sized case of narcissistic love can be, even as the skwork learn that one cannot train a microbe to be patriotic. While in Big Red Mama in Time and Morris, Minnesota, Big Red Mama gets pissed off when she discovers the Cretaceous has been invaded by an obnoxious human who has stolen a time-machineand decides that some information probably shouldnt be free, particularly since as a group, humans underestimated the damage they did and rarely took responsibility for anything.

Big Mama Stories

This James Tiptree Jr. Award–winning anthropological science fiction novel about first contact with an alien culture is “fascinating” and “irresistible” (Ursula K. LeGuin). Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring it. As the anger increases on the ship, the ground crew becomes more and more affected by the conflict and begins to rely on their instincts to keep the project moving forward. Unexpected danger plagues the mission as Lixia is determined to expand her knowledge. This “excellent, anthropologically oriented SF tale” novel (Publishers Weekly) explores the mix of fear and fascination as humans and aliens meet, alert to the potential for both mutual enrichment and mutual destruction, and offers “strong characters, well-written dialogue, and a plot full of adventure” (School Library Journal).

Transgressive Tales by Aliens

Hwarhath Stories

Eleanor Arnason

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