The September/October 2026 issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Ken Liu, Natalia Theodoridou, Luna Hou, Seanan McGuire, Emily Y. Teng, and P. H. Low; essays by Wil Wheaton, Mari Ness, Luke Elliott and James Bailey, and Kristiana Willsey; poetry by Kailee Pedersen, Rebecca Uhlman, Angela Liu, and Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe; interviews with Ken Liu and Emily Y. Teng by Caroline M. Yoachim; Galen Dara’s Fluid as the cover; and an editor...

The people who struggle most with fiber are not the ones who lack information. They are the ones who feel buried by it. They want to feel better, have more regular digestion, and maybe lose a few pounds, but they do not want another demanding program that collapses by Thursday. This book does the opposite. It keeps things small, specific, and doable. You will learn exactly how much fiber you need, which foods deliver it without fuss, and how to add a little more each week until the habit f...

"Romcom fans will fall in love with the cheeky charm and wry wit of . . . a delightfully bloke-centered counterpart to Bridget Jones and her diary." — BooklistTo coin a phrase, Josh is suffering a quarter-life crisis. He just broke up with his long-term girlfriend, lost his job, and moved back home with his parents (shudder). Welcome to rock bottom in Bristol. As Josh starts questioning all his life choices, he has a mad thought: Maybe he would just be bett...

The history of Chicago's street gangs, so I researched news articles, books, forum posts, interviewed old students and people from Chicago communities, and researched old social services records from the 1950s and 1960s. I translate poorly written pieces and stories in meaning. My work also included research into Puerto Rican, Mexican, white, and African American migration, as well as investigating the neighborhoods they lived or still live in, to establish the origins of these street gang...

With a loss of confidence at work and on the wrong end of a breakup, James Bailey ran away to Africa in what some might call a midlife crisis. He packed an oversized bag dubbed 'Baby Elephant' and pursued a dream he'd nurtured for years — becoming a safari guide.Through this diary-style narrative, readers experience the highs and lows of life on the African veld. James shares his home in an unfenced camp, the hard slog of guide training, heart-pounding moments with the Big Five, an...

A record 303 players made their big league debuts in 2022, including Rookies of the Year Julio Rodriguez and Michael Harris II, World Series MVP Jeremy Peña, and Gold Glove winner Steven Kwan. With two additional roster spots available over the first month of the season, and the flexibility to call up substitutes for players impacted by COVID-19, new faces were popping up every night.You may be familiar with first-round picks Hunter Greene and Riley Greene, but how well do you know...

In this gripping, fast-paced thriller, Dr. Robert "Doc" Lamb, trauma surgeon, former Army Special Forces Intelligence officer and CIA covert operative, swore he would never go back to his former life—not after his wife, Grace, was killed in a car bomb meant for him. But when Dr. Greg Johnson—the Broward County medical examiner, and an old friend—asks him to assist with the evaluation of a mysterious John Doe found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway, he begins to be pulled back into the ...

The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet that follows the Atkins and low-carb diets in many ways. It entails dramatically lowering carbohydrate consumption and substituting fat. This drop in carbs allows the body to reach a metabolic condition known as ketosis. Your body becomes extremely good at burning fat for energy as this happens. It also transforms fat to ketones in the liver, which can provide the brain with energy (6Trusted Source). Ketogenic diets can lower blood sugar and ...

On the ketogenic diet, a little preparation and prepping goes a long way toward success. With tips, lists, and instructions for planning your meals ahead of time, Keto Meal Prep will help you make balanced, homemade keto meals a daily part of your routine.

James Bailey's form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was as bizarre as it was unbearable. He was obsessed by a fear of drugs and their effects, believing himself to be in constant danger of becoming insanely high through people spiking his food, or even by just touching a photograph of a marijuana leaf.The treatment programme he went through at a specialist American clinic was challenging, to say the least. He was asked to shake hands and mingle with the local junkies, fighti...

“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”—Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeA spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means“She was, if you believe what you read in the papers: a genius, a survivor, a bad mother, a fickle friend, a...

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one simple question: What is the meaning of life?Then he waited.Slowly but surely their responses arrived through his letterbox.From entrepreneurs and environmentalists, to artists, authors and adventurers, this book gathers a kaleidoscope of perspectives on what it means to be human. With ov...