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MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.
If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, Machine of Death. THIS IS HOW YOU DIE Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances-just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. OLD AGE, it turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or being shot by an elderly, bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machines held onto that old-world sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does. This addictive anthology--sinister, witty, existential, and fascinating--collects the best of the thousands of story submissions the editors received in the wake of the success of the first volume, and exceeds the first in every way.
The September/October 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by T. Kingfisher, Samantha Mills, Kenneth Schneyer, Lavie Tidhar, Marie Brennan, and James Yu. Reprint fiction by P. Djèlí Clark. Essays by Del Sandeen, Marissa Lingen, Nibedita Sen, and Christopher Mark Rose, poetry by Terese Mason Pierre, Beth Cato, Rita Chen, and Lora Gray, interviews with Kenneth Schneyer and Lavie Tidhar by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Christopher Jones, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson.
The November/December 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky, William Alexander, Sonya Taaffe, Lauren Beukes, Marissa Lingen, Naomi Day, and Angel Leal. Essays by Vivian Shaw, Tania Chen, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Jennings, poetry by Brandon O'Brien, Sneha Mohidekar, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Katherine James, interviews with William Alexander and Marissa Lingen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Betsy Aoki, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
The March/April 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Charlie Jane Anders, Kristiana Willsey, AnaMaria Curtis, Delilah S. Dawson, Valerie Valdes, Parlei Rivière, and Ai Jiang. Reprint fiction by Sarah Pinsker. Essays by C.L. Polk, Jeffe Kennedy, Ruthanna Emrys, and Riley Silverman, poetry by Tiffany Morris, Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi, Betsy Aoki, and Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, interviews with Kristiana Willse and Delilah S. Dawson by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Nilah Magruder, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2022 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
Kieran Quinn is a bit telepathic, a little psychokinetic, and very gayÑthree things that have gotten him through life perfectly well so farÑbut when self-styled prophet Wyatt Jackson arrives during Pride Week, things take a violent turn. Kieran's powers are somewhat underwhelming but do have a habit of refracting light into spectacular rainbows for him to hide behind. Even so, it's not long before Kieran is struggling to maintain his own anonymity while battling wits with a handsome cop, getting some flirting in with a hunky leather man, saving some drag queens, and escaping the worst blind date in history. It's enough to make a fledgling hero want to give up before he even begins. One thing's for sure: saving the day has never been so fabulous.
The May/June 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Arkady Martine, Sarah Rees Brennan, Tia Tashiro, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Rati Mehotra, K.S. Walker, and John Wiswell. Essays by John Scalzi, Amy Berg, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Cara Liebowitz, poetry by Angela Liu, Ali Trotta, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, and Fran Wilde, interviews with Arkady Martine and K.S. Walker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Zara Alfonso, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
The September/October 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Grace P. Fong, Kristina Ten, Sarah Monette, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Jeannette Ng, AnaMaria Curtis, and Jenn Reese. Essays by Una McCormack, Christopher J. Garcia, Marissa Lingen, and Riley Silverman, poetry by Ali Trotta, Tiffany Morris, Ai Jiang, and Emily Jiang, interviews with Sarah Monette and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Grace P. Fong, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
The May/June 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Fran Wilde, José Pablo Iriarte, Rachel Swirsky, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Emma Törzs, and Shveta Thakrar. Reprint fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas. Essays by E. Lily Yu, Andrew Liptak, Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, and C.J. Linton, poetry by Nnadi Samuel, Tiffany Morris, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Vivian Li, interviews with José Pablo Iriarte and Shveta Thakrar by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
The July/August 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Tananarive Due, Eleanor Arnason, Shaoni C. White, Tochi Onyebuchi, Ellen Kushner, and C.S.E Cooney. Reprint fiction by Yoon Ha Lee. Essays by Nisi Shawl, Troy L. Wiggins, Nino Cipri, and C.L. Clark, poetry by Minal Hajratwala, Betsy Aoki, Ali Trotta and Octavia Cade, interviews with Eleanor Arnason and C.S.E. Cooney by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Alexa Sharpe, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.