This James Tiptree Jr. Award–winning anthropological science fiction novel about first contact with an alien culture is “fascinating” and “irresistible” (Ursula K. LeGuin). Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring it. As the anger increases on the ship, the ground crew becomes more and more affected by the conflict and begins to rely on their instincts to keep the project moving forward. Unexpected danger plagues the mission as Lixia is determined to expand her knowledge. This “excellent, anthropologically oriented SF tale” novel (Publishers Weekly) explores the mix of fear and fascination as humans and aliens meet, alert to the potential for both mutual enrichment and mutual destruction, and offers “strong characters, well-written dialogue, and a plot full of adventure” (School Library Journal).

Groundbreaking, provocative novels that challenge gender assumptions—in stories of aliens and humans, women and men, and the shifting nature of identity. The James Tiptree, Jr. Award was established to acknowledge works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore our understanding of gender. The three novels in this collection each embody that continually evolving challenge in boldly original and highly imaginative ways. A Woman of the Iron People: The inaugural winner of the Tiptree Award in 1991, this "excellent, anthropologically oriented SF tale" (Publishers Weekly) examines the fear and fascination on both sides when a group of human scientists discovers an advanced yet seemingly primitive alien culture. "Fascinating . . . Very wise and funny . . . Full of complicated and irresistible people, some of them human." —Ursula K. Le Guin Waking the Moon: Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Hand serves up a seductive, post-feminist thriller in which a college freshman accidentally discovers the existence of the Benandanti, a clandestine order devoted to suppressing the powerful Moon Goddess and secretly manipulating the world's governments and institutions. "A potent socio-erotic ghost story." —William Gibson Larque on the Wing: A middle-aged housewife's thoughts become reality when her rebellious inner child takes control, and she transforms herself into a fearless gay man. This is a moving, funny, surprising, and transcendent tale of one woman's unusual quest to come to terms with who she truly is. "Springer effectively uses fantasy to evoke midlife soul-searching. . . . An engrossing novel about gender and self-formation." —Publishers Weekly

In the tradition of The Handmaid's Tale, Tiptree Award-winning fantasy author Eleanor Arnason offers a new novel that explores gender roles using science fiction. Earth is on the brink of total war with aliens. Biologist Anna Perex discovers that to prevent the warlike males from harming women and children the hwarhath have segregated their society strictly along gender lines.

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.

When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected—he hoped!—that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason’s imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the AIM protests of the 1960s, Arnason tells of a modern woman’s struggle to use the weapons of DNA science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage. PLUS: “Writing SF During World War III,” and an Outspoken Interview that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today’s edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month they bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our August 2013 issue contains: Original Fiction by Vandana Singh ("Cry of the Kharchal"), Greg Kurzawa ("Shepards") and Alex Dally MacFarlane ("Found"). Classic stories by Eleanor Arnason ("The Lovers") and Stephen Baxter ("Cilia-of-Gold"). Non-fiction by Christopher Mahon ("The Candlelit World: The Dark Roots of Myth and Fantasy"), an interview with Holly Black, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

For 24 years, Tales of the Unanticipated has provided you with the widest range in subject and tone in speculative fiction, poetry, and artwork. In TOTU #30, Australian author Stephen Dedman explores the fuss generated by a returning space probe. Eleanor Arnason introduces us to a homeless teddy bear, and Patricia Russo offers a dark tale about what happens when sticky creatures come to town. Barbara Rosen introduces us to a cat with a special talent, while Catherine Lundoff offers a mysterious Egyptian cat sculpture. Terry Faust and Martha A. Hood serve up two very different looks at what happens when a deity drops by for an extended stay. Douglas J Lane writes about nerd vengeance of the nasty kind. Patricia S. Bowne examines the politics surrounding wood nymphs, while Jason Sanford tells "A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story." William Mingin leads us through an epic quest that starts with an unsettled restaurant bill. Canadian Sarah Totton writes about vodka, pumice, and fire-breathing chartered accountants. TOTU #30 includes a prose poem by Ann Peters and Ellen Kuhfeld, partly inspired by the Babylonian Enuma Elish. Ruth Berman, Ann K. Schwader, P M F Johnson, Zoe Gabriel, F.J. Bergmann, Sandra Kasturi, Alexis Vergalla, KC Wilder, and G.O. Clark. The issue is highly enhanced by striking artwork by Rodger Gerberding & Suzanne Clarke, Marge Ballif Simon, Georgie Schnobrich, Barbara Rosen, and this issue's featured artist, Jules Hart.