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First edition. |
| Description |
683 pages ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"Deluxe Hardcover Edition"--Dust jacket. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Short stories.
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Science fiction.
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Science fiction poetry.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fantasy poetry.
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Fantasy literature.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fantasy poetry.
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Science fiction poetry.
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| Added Author |
Thomas, Lynne M., editor, writer of introduction.
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Thomas, Michael Damian, editor, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Uncanny |
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Contained in (work): Uncanny magazine (2014). Issues 1-22.
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| ISBN |
9781596069183 (hardcover) : $40.00 |
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159606918X (hardcover) |
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