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Title The best of Uncanny / edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas.

Publication Info. Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, 2019.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  SF BEST OF UNCANNY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Science Fiction  SFF BEST OF    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 683 pages ; 24 cm
Note "Deluxe Hardcover Edition"--Dust jacket.
Contents The uncanny valley--an introduction / Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas -- Our talons can crush galaxies / Brooke Bolander -- Blessings / Naomi Novik -- Folding Beijing / Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu -- The new ways / Amal El-Mohtar -- Fandom for robots / Vina Jie-Min Prasad -- Catcall / Delilah S. Dawson -- Wooden feathers / Ursula Vernon -- The long run / Neil Gaiman -- The heat of us: notes toward an oral history / Sam J. Miller -- Ghost champagne / Charlie Jane Anders -- Translatio corporis / Kat Howard -- Rose child / Theodora Goss -- The witch of the Orion Waste and the boy knight / E. Lily Yu -- Monster girls don't cry / A. Merc Rustad -- Midnight hour / Mary Robinette Kowal -- Henosis / N.K. Jemisin -- The persecution of witches / Ali Trotta -- Restore the heart into love / John Chu -- I frequently hear music in the very herat of noise / Sarah Pinsker -- You'll surely drown here if you stay / Alyssa Wong -- Meat bone tea / S. Qiouyi Lu (Poem) -- She still loves a dragon / Elizabeth Bear -- If you were a tiger I'd have to wear white / Maria Dahvana Headley -- Archival testimony fragments/Miner song / Rose Lemberg (Poem) -- Sun, Moon, Dust / Ursula Vernon -- Planet Lion / Catherynne Valente -- The hydraulic emperor / Arkady Martine -- Starskin, sealskin / Shveta Thakrar & Sara Cleto (Poem) -- Small changes over long periods of time / K.M. Szpara -- God-date / Brandon O'Brien (Poem) -- Auspicium melioris aevi / J.Y. Yang -- Clearly lettered in a most steady hand / Fran Wilde -- An ocean the color of bruises / Isabel Yap -- Dancing princesses / Roshani Choksi (Poem) -- Those / Sofi Samatar -- Though she be but little / C.S.E. Cooney -- Children of thorns, children of water / Aliette de Bodard -- Protestations against the Ides of Anglicization / Cassandra Khaw (Poem) -- My body, herself / Carmen Maria Machado -- Ye highlands and ye lowlands / Seanan McGuire -- The words on my skin / Caroline W. Yoachim -- And then there were (N-One) / Sarah Pinsker -- The sea never says it loves you / Fran Wilde (Poem) -- Pockets / Amal El-Mohtar.
Summary The Best of Uncanny features some of the uncanniest stories and poetry in Science Fiction/Fantasy today, by its current leading voices. Immerse yourself in 44 original science fiction and fantasy stories and poems from the first 22 issues of Uncanny Magazine.
Subject Short stories.
Science fiction.
Science fiction poetry.
Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy poetry.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Science fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy poetry.
Added Author Thomas, Lynne M., editor, writer of introduction.
Thomas, Michael Damian, editor, writer of introduction.
Added Title Contained in (work): Uncanny magazine (2014). Issues 1-22.
ISBN 159606918X (hardcover)
9781596069183 (hardcover)
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