Uncanny Magazine Issue 52: May/June 2023

The May/June 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Aliette de Bodard, Kylie Lee Baker, Lindsey Godfrey Eccles, Fran Wilde, Ewen Ma, Theodora Ward, and K.S. Walker. Reprint fiction by Chimedum Ohaegbu. Essays by Caroline M. Yoachim, LaShawn M. Wanak, Hana Lee, and Sam J. Miller, poetry by Nnadi Samuel, Jennifer Mace, Tehnuka, and Angela Liu, interviews with Kylie Lee Baker and Ewen Ma by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Antonio Caparo, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

Cover: Low-season Mars Tourist by Antonio Javier Caparo

Editorial: “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction: “The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard “The Infinite Endings of Elsie Chen” by Kylie Lee Baker “All These Ghosts Are Playing to Win” by Lindsey Godfrey Eccles

“The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets” by Fran Wilde “Désolé” by Ewen Ma “Want Itself Is a Treasure in Heaven” by Theodora Ward “A Lovers’ Tide in Which We Inevitably Break Each Other; Told in Inverse” by K.S. Walker

Reprint: “And For My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared” by Chimedum Ohaegbu

Nonfiction: “The Art That Doesn’t Yet Exist” by Caroline M. Yoachim “The Good, the Bad, and the AI” by LaShawn M. Wanak “Not a Zero-Sum Game: AI vs. Art” by Hana Lee

“Community Is a Superpower” by Sam J. Miller (art by Yorgos Cotronis)

Poetry: “In the Wild” by Nnadi Samuel

“silphium & salt” by Jennifer Mace “For my shipmates, a short glossary to aid mutual understanding” by Tehnuka “Stone Kingdom” by Angela Liu)

Interviews: Kylie Lee Baker interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim

Ewen Ma interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim

Podcasts:

Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 51A: Editors’ Introduction, “The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard, as read by Erika Ensign, “In the Wild” by Nnadi Samuel, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Aliette de Bodard.

Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 51B: Editors’ Introduction, “The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets” by Fran Wilde, as read by Erika Ensign, “Stone Kingdom” by Angela Liu, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Fran Wilde.