The Contents are on the Table
Several exciting Tables of Contents were released in the last week, that I’m invested in one way or another.
Uncanny Magazine #1 is available for purchase now! Some free content has been released on the blog this week and some will go up in December. But you can read the whole thing now as a complete ebook.
Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard, Max Gladstone, Amelia Beamer, Ken Liu, and Christopher Barzak, classic fiction by Jay Lake, essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Christopher J Garcia, plus a Worldcon Roundtable featuring Emma England, Michael Lee, Helen Montgomery, Steven H Silver, and Pablo Vazquez, poetry by Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley, Deborah Stanish, Beth Meacham on Jay Lake, and Christopher Barzak, and a cover by Galen Dara.
All of that plus two podcasts!
My essay in Uncanny is called Does Sex Make Science Fiction “Soft?” It’s really exciting to be part of the first issue!
Speaking of exciting, the next Table of Contents to talk about is super extra exciting because I MADE it – Tehani and I have announced the final TOC for Cranky Ladies of History, which we’ll be releasing early next year after our crowdfunding campaign back in March.
We are bouncing madly to be able to introduce these fantastic stories to people!
“Charmed Life” by Joyce Chng
“Neter Nefer” by Amanda Pillar
“Theodora” by Barbara Robson
“Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir / For So Great a Misdeed” by Lisa Hannett
“The Company of Women” by Garth Nix
“Hallowed Ground” by Juliet Marillier
“Little Battles” by LM Myles
“Bright Moon” by Foz Meadows
“The Lioness and Her Prey” by Laura Lam
“Queenside” by Liz Barr
“Look How Cold My Hands Are” by Deborah Biancotti
“The Gift of Freedom” by Dirk Flinthart
“Glorious” by Faith Mudge
“The Pasha, the girl and the dagger: The story of Nora of Kelmendi” by Havva Murat
“Mary Mary” by Kirstyn McDermott
“Vintana” by Thoraiya Dyer
“The Dragon, the Terror, the Sea” by Stephanie Lai
“Sacagawea” by Jane Yolen
“Another Week in the Future” by Kaaron Warren
“Due Care and Attention” by Sylvia Kelso
“Cora Crane and The Trouble with Me” by Sandra McDonald
“A Beautiful Stream” by Nisi Shawl
“Oodgeroo is Not Yet Your Name” by Liz Argall
As if all that wasn’t enough, the announcement for Companion Piece, the latest of the Mad Norwegian “Chicks Dig” Doctor Who essay collections has gone up officially – this new book in the series is edited by my co-Verity LM Myles, and our own Aussie Liz Barr. It’s coming out in April next year, the lineup of writers is fantastic, and I can’t wait to find out who is writing essays on which companions.
Mine is a piece called “Sara Kingdom Dies At The End” about one of the more obscure and deeply amazing 1960′s companions, as played by Jean Marsh. It looks in depth at The Daleks Master Plan, one of the BEST DOCTOR WHO STORIES OF ALL TIME NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS, so also touches a little on Katarina (the first companion ever to die), and Steven Taylor (the surprisingly feminist astronaut). But mostly it’s about how Sara Kingdom is amazing and the loss of the visual impact of her deathglare and her eyebrows is a media tragedy.
