Name: Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
Rating: 4.13 (122 reviews)
Author: Nghi Vo

The Steampunk Trilogy

★ 3.36

Paul Di Filippo

Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In "Victoria," a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In "Hottentots," Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in "Walt and Emily," Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.

Worth Her Weight in Gold

★ 3.89

Sarah Gailey

Winslow Remington Houndstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has just finished a lucrative job, but he's faced with a hippo-sized problem that would test even the most seasoned of hoppers. A slyly funny, raucous adventure in the alternate America of Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow.

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The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

★ 3.47

Sean Wallace

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk showcases the very best in the form of stories by Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Cherie Priest, and many more.

An anthology that looks to the future through the lens of the past, these 30 mash-ups of past and future push the boundaries of steampunk.

This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many more.

Contents:
Steampunk : looking to the future through the lens of the past / Ekaterina Sedia --
Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer --
The Steam Dancer (1896) / Caitlin R. Kierman --
Icebreaker / E. Catherine Tobler --
Tom Edison and his amazing telegraphic harpoon / Jay Lake --
The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball / Genevieve Valentine
Clockwork fairies / Cat Rambo --
The mechanical aviary of Emperor Jala-ud-din Muhammad Akbar / Shweta Narayan --
Prayers of forges and furnaces / Aliette de Bodard --
The effluent engine / N.K. Jemisin --
The clockwork goat and the smokestack magi / Peter M. Ball --
The armature of flight / Sharon Mock --
The anachronist's cookbook / Catherynne M. Valente --
Numismatics in the reigns of Naranh and Viu / Alex Dally MacFarlane --
Zeppelin City / Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick --
The people's machine / Tobias S. Buckell --
The hands that feed / Matthew Kressel --
Machine maid / Margo Lanagan --
To follow the waves / Amal El-Mohtar --
Clockmaker's requiem / Barth Anderson --
Dr Lash remembers / Jeffrey Ford --
Lady Witherspoon's solution / James Morrow --
Reluctance / Cherie Priest --
A serpent in the gears / Margaret Ronald --
The celebrated carousel of the Margravine of Blois / Megan Arkenberg --
Biographical notes to ''A discourse on the nature of causality, with air-planes'' by Benjamin Rosenbaum / Benjamin Rosenbaum --
Clockwork chickadee / Mary Robinette Kowal --
Cinderella suicide / Samantha Henderson --
Arbeitskraft / Nick Mamatas --
To seek her fortune / Nicole Kornher-Stace --
The ballad of the last human / Lavie Tidhar.

Galatea

★ 3.93

Madeline Miller

An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.

In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece — the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen — the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence.

In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost...

As the Last I May Know

★ 4.06

S.L. Huang

An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull the trigger.

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 39: March/April 2021

★ 4.14

Lynne M. Thomas

The March/April 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Dominica Phetteplace, Caroline M. Yoachim, Carrie Vaughn, Rati Mehrotra, and Sarah Pinsker. Reprint fiction by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Essays by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Sid Jain, Marieke Nijkamp, and Jay Edidin, poetry by Tamara Jerée, Brandon O'Brien, Terese Mason Pierre, and Ali Trotta, interviews with Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly, and Sarah Pinsker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Paul Lewin, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

Contents:
The Uncanny Valley / Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
The Sin of America / Catherynne M. Valente
The Perils of a Hologram Heart / Dominica Phetteoplace
Colors of the Immortal Palette / Caroline M. Yoachim
The Book of the Kraken / Carrie Vaughn
Eighteen Days of Barbereek / Rati Mehrotra
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather / Sarah Pinkser
They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass / Alaya Dawn Johnson
Deadly Frocks and Other Tales of Murder Clothes / Tansy Rayner Roberts
Seduced by the Ruler's Gaze: An Indian Perspective on Seth Dickinson's Masquerade / Sid Jain
Protector of Small Steps / Marieke Nijkamp
Please Be Kind to the Singularity / Jay Eddin
The Most Humane Methods Could Involve a Knife / Tamara Jerée
Lagahoo Culture (Part II) / Brandon O'Brien
Future Saints / Terese Mason Pierre
Of Monsters I Loved / Ali Trotta

Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022

★ 4.12

Lynne M. Thomas

The November/December 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Samantha Mills, Vivian Shaw, Matthew Olivas, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Iori Kusano, Anya Ow, and Emily Y. Teng. Reprint fiction by Catherynne M. Valente. Essays by Izzy Wasserstein, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Jennings, and Karen Heuler, poetry by Eshqin Ahmad, Ewen Ma, May Chong, Taiwo Hassan, and Ai Jiang, interviews with Vivian Shaw and Iori Kusano by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Maxine Vee, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison.

In The Issue

FICTION
Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills
Transference by Vivian Shaw
To Walk the River of Stars by Emily Y. Teng
The Other Side of Mictlān by Matthew Olivas
A Fall Counts Anywhere by Catherynne M. Valente
can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time by Iori Kusano
Earth Dragon, Turning by Anya Ow
Travelers’ Unrest by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

POETRY
A Dead, Divine Thing by Eshqin Ahmad
Crossing by Ewen Ma
Sang Kancil at the Protest by May Chong
I Am a Little Hotel by Ai Jiang
A Testament of Bloom by Taiwo Hassan

EDITORIALS
The Uncanny Valley by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
The Horny Body Problem by Meg Elison

ESSAYS
The Necessity of Trans Joy by Izzy Wasserstein
Thank You, Patreon Supporters! by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
For Your Re-Consideration by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Across the Afterverse: A Conversation with Afropunk SF/F Author Alex Smith by Alex Jennings
What Do the Dying Know? by Karen Heuler

INTERVIEWS
Interview: Vivian Shaw by Caroline M. Yoachim
Interview: Iori Kusano by Caroline M. Yoachim

Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories

★ 4.15

Amal El-Mohtar

Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.

With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.

Full of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories, Seasons of Glass and Stories includes "Seasons of Glass and Iron," "The Green Book," "Madeleine," "The Lonely Sea in the Sky," "And Their Lips Rang with the Sun," "The Truth About Owls," "A Hollow Play," "Anabasis," "To Follow the Waves," "John Hollowback and the Witch," "Florilegia, or, Some Lies About Flowers," "Pockets," and more.

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