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 true story of the Scarlet Pimpernel…Angelette, the recently widowed Comtesse d'Avignon, only invited Viscount Daventry to her country house party as a favor to her sister. When the handsome British lord arrives—two days late—he's full of unnerving tales of unrest and violence in Paris. Angelette assumes it's all exaggeration…until her chateau is attacked and her life threatened. Daventry rescues her, and the two are forced to run for their lives. But w...

No man can outsmart him, but she's been outsmarting him for yearsLord Adrian Smythe may appear a perfectly boring gentleman, but he leads a thrilling life as one of England's most preeminent spies, an identity so clandestine even his wife is unaware of it. But he isn't the only one with secrets.Now that the Napoleonic wars have come to an end, daring secret agent Lady Sophia Smythe can hardly bear the thought of returning home to her tedious husban...

**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...

She's an Outcast Who's Vowed Never to MarryCatherine Fullbright has sworn off marriage. Her abusive father has made her wary of men and long for independence, and she has a plan to escape her family home. Catie's younger sister is the apple of their father's eye and betrothed to a wealthy lord. But when a more advantageous suitor shows interest in Catie's sister, Catie finds herself standing at the altar with her sister's betrothed and no memory of how she came to ...

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...

An exciting new novella in Shana Galen's popular Lord and Lady Spy series. Blue, an elite spy, tracks an assassin to Naples and the theater where his estranged wife performs. As he falls in love with his Helena again, Blue races to apprehend the assassin before he destroys them both.Praise for Lord and Lady Spy:"Lively, utterly delightful adventure romance…"—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars"I loved this book! There was action, adventure, mystery/su...

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...