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Catching up on 2019 fiction? Read Elizabeth Bear’s short story "Lest We Forget"!

Alt text: a Black astronaut smiles at the viewer, wearing a white, blue, and orange space suit, a golden-orange halo surrounding her face. The story quote: “I am dying of the war, though not in it.

Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one.”

Quote from “Lest We Forget” by Elizabeth Bear in Issue 28 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Galen Dara.

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I dressed in black yesterday...that was stupid. So I'm a unicorn today.🌈 #ootd #cyberdog #cyberdogmanchester #holographic #dreamprint #spaceunicorns #unicorns #idontdohotweather

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Catching up on 2019 fiction? Read Jei D. Marcade's short story "Seed and Cinder"!

"One day you will swallow the sun. This is the promise held in the ripple of your muscles, the dull ache of your bones. You are small now, but you will grow until you dwarf the eldest pine, until lakes form in your paw prints, until no earthly conflagration can sate your hunger."

A brown woman in a wheelchair holds a bowl out for tropical birds on her lap, smiling. The birds include peacocks, parrots, possibly a stork. The scene takes place in a sunroom. The quote: "One day you will swallow the sun. This is the promise held in the ripple of your muscles, the dull ache of your bones. You are small now, but you will grow until you dwarf the eldest pine, until lakes form in your paw prints, until no earthly conflagration can sate your hunger." From "Seed and Cinder" by Jei D. Marcade. Art by Julie Dillon.

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Catching up on 2019 fiction? Read Brit E.B. Hvide’s short story "A Catalog of Love at First Sight"!

A Black astronaut smiles at the viewer, wearing a white, blue, and orange space suit, a golden-orange halo surrounding her face. The story quote: “And sometimes you have to leave your heart behind so you can run. So you can travel as fast as your legs can carry you, searching for new homes in new places that won’t break you as hard. But every so often, your home and your heart line up. Sometimes you can kiss your heart on the forehead and hold your other heart’s hand as you all watch the shuttle take off, your feet still and solid on the home you’ve chosen for yourself.”

Quote from “A Catalog of Love at First Sight” by Brit E.B. Hvide in Issue 28 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Galen Dara.

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Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-One is LIVE, Space Unicorns! Featuring all-new short fiction by Elizabeth Bear, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Laura Anne Gilman, and Jenn Reese; essays by G. Willow Wilson, Alexandra Erin, Brandon O’Brien, Jeannette Ng, and Keidra Chaney; poems by Sonya Taaffe, Hal Y. Zhang, Annie Neugebauer, and Sylvia Santiago; interviews with Elizabeth Bear and Jenn Reese by Caroline M. Yoachim; and John Picacio’s La Palma on the cover! Read the issue here!

Image description: the Issue 31 cover, La Palma, by John Picacio. A woman with light brown skin, her eyes closed in contemplation, is in profile. Palm fronds in a headdress fan from her temples, and behind and around her are frilly mushrooms. The names of the contributors, as well as “Uncanny”, are in white on the cover.

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Catching up on 2019 fiction? Read Laura Anne Gilman's short story "Peridot and Rain"! eBook available for purchase now! Online version available Dec. 03, 2019!

An image of a Black woman, with her eyes closed and wearing a green and gold headdress and gown of leaves and petals, stands against a backdrop of golden petals. The story quote: “Choose fruit, I urge her silently. Dream the rest of your life of lands you will never see, but knowing the taste will return, if you are only patient and save your coin. Fruit isn’t safe, but it’s wiser. But her gaze rises, the breadth of the market yet to explore."

Quote from “Peridot and Rain" by Laura Anne Gilman in Issue 31 of Uncanny Magazine, art by John Picacio. Link to the website is in bio.

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Catching up on 2019 fiction? Read Fran Wilde’s short story “A Catalog of Storms”!

(alt text: A blue-skinned mermaid rises in blue and gold sparkling water, two similar mermaids behind her, a smile on her face and a basket of pearls and stars in her arms.

The story quote: “‘The storms got smarter than us,’ Varyl whispers at night when she can’t sleep for missing her twin, ‘after we broke the weather. The wind and rain got used to winning. They liked it.’

A predator without equal, the weather tore us to pieces after the sky turned grey and the sea rose.”

From “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde in Uncanny Issue 26, art by Julie Dillon.)

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Catching up on 2019 fiction? Read Marie Brennan’s short story "Vīs Dēlendī!”

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A Black femme floats, arms outstretched and a serene expression on her face, in outer space. She wears a purple and black spacesuit and a translucent magenta cloak.

The story quote: “They can feel his satisfaction. A mediocre student? He has their attention now; none among them will ever forget his name again. Whether they will remember him for his success or for his failure is a different matter, of course...but he shows not the slightest flicker of uncertainty. Neconnu has labored for the last year to bring abo it this end. If he were susceptible to doubt, he would not have made it this far.”

From “Vīs Dēlendī” by Marie Brennan in Uncanny Issue 27, art by Christopher Jones.)