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...

**I never thought I’d have a bounty on my head the size of the Milky Way.Of course, I never thought I’d be able to bend time, either.**But hey, life is full of surprises.Don’t get me wrong, feeling like a goddess has its perks, but those perks come with a hefty price. My brain is tapioca. I’m stranded in the middle of dead space. Ratters are using me for target practice, and a giant, cybernetic monster named Oscar is trying to make me his chew toy.All this b...

Rachel was a devoted sister and friend who knew how to make people feel seen and valued. But at twenty-six, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and everything changed.Still Rachel: Beyond a Diagnosis is an intimate portrait of a brilliant woman whose reality began to fracture, and of the sister who refused to let the illness define her story. Through decades of hallucinations, hospitalizations, and the grinding challenges of severe menta...

A warrior princess fighting to protect her kingdom from hordes of undead.A prince who emerges from a land long-thought destroyed.And a secret that could change the world.Once the world was composed of five kingdoms, but that was before the red vein virus turned those it infected into monstrous Hollows. Twenty-two-year-old Mara has never known a world where the Hollows weren't a threat. The princess has been trained since childhood to prote...

A warrior princess making her way in a new land.A prince struggling to protect his people.And a legendary cure that means life or death.Mara arrives in Taio's homeland—a place she once thought destroyed. On the outside, all looks peaceful and perfect, but Mara is immediately thrust into danger as the monsters who menaced her land are closer than ever to overtaking Taio's city. And that's not the only threat. Taio's old lover is a rival for h...

A Machine for Hugs is a collection of tales embracing the everyday strangeness of being alive. These stories explore forgotten avenues and dark corners too weird to ignore.A lone gravedigger’s life hangs in the balance between insanity and damnation...A pair of erstwhile goldminers unlock a horrible secret on their trip home to Kansas...A lonely boy creates a machine for hugs and learns some of life’s hard truths...All this and more...

A GUIDEBOOK WITH SOLUTIONSWe need to prepare our children, 'tweens and teens early and consistently for the challenges they face from antisemitism, bullying and other bias.WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK?Parents, grandparents and educators of Jewish childrenThis unique Guidebook provides you with the tools to:· Form a T.E.A.M. with your family to effectively support and protect each other.· Fost...

Show kids how the human body works—hands-on experiments for ages 5 to 10The human body is amazing! We use it to move, smell, taste, and speak—but how? Kids will uncover the answers with this book of 40 at-home science experiments. They'll see body systems in action with activities like building a digestive tract from socks and pantyhose, sculpting red blood cells, and making vocal cords out of rubber bands.Get kids thinking like a scientist as they answer q...

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Time travel is messy.And I don’t mean morning hair after prom, messy.I mean flushing dynamite down the toilet, messy.Long story short:Ship, trashed.Food stores, gone.Ravenous monsters, everywhere.Worst of all, I have to listen to my best bud and his new harem of space cats constantly “repopulate” their species. I swear to god, if I don’t find some ear plugs soon, I’m going stick my head in a warp coil.The silver l...

From the Three-time Rita Award-nominee and national bestselling author, a Regency romance featuring a sexy spy who partners with a beautiful courtesan.Fallon, the Marchioness of Mystery, is a celebrated courtesan with her finger on the pulse of high society. She's adored by men, hated by their wives. No one knows anything about her past, and she plans to keep it that way.Warrick Fitzhugh will do anything to protect his compatriots in the Foreign Office, inc...

From the Three-time Rita Award-nominee and national bestseller, a nobleman is scandalized by rumors of his affair with an all-too-alluring courtesan.He had a perfectly orderly life . . .William, the sixth Duke of Pelham, enjoys his punctual. securely structured life. Orderly and predictable—that's the way he likes it. But he's in the public eye, and the scandal sheets will make up anything to sell papers. When the gossips link him to Juliette, one ...