Hiromi Goto

Novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with elements of the fantastic in the tender and gripping graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humour, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?

Shadow Life

Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Everything changes the day she returns home to find her mother is missing.

Half World

A novel which follows the lives of three generations of Japanese-Canadian women, blending myth, folk legend and fiction.

Chorus of Mushrooms

In these devastating short stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ghosts of their past. Home becomoes fraught, reality a nightmare as Hiromi Goto weaves her characters through tales of domestic crises and cultural dissonance. Goto's characters are imbued with the light of myth and magic realism. With humour and keen insight, Goto makes the familiar seem strange and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd and the sublime.

Stories

Hopeful Monsters

The Kappa Child

"Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Melanie is just barely coping. Everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a nightmare creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie has embarked on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake ..."--P. [4] of cover.

20th Anniversary Edition

Darkest Light

Stinky Girl

A Chorus of Mushrooms

John Chu

Ursula Vernon

K.M. Szpara

Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Kelly McCullough

Naomi Kritzer

Chinelo Onwualu

May/June 2017

Uncanny Magazine Issue 16

Ann Xu

Kumiko est placée à Pâturages Verts, une maison de retraite prisée. Ses filles étaient certes bien intentionnées en choisissant cet endroit pour elle, mais la veuve de soixante-seize ans s’enfuit au bout de quelques jours. Rebelle et indépendante, elle refuse qu’on lui dicte sa condition et emménage seule dans un appartement, gardant le lieu secret. Kumiko se délecte des petits plaisirs quotidiens : décorer à sa guise, manger ce qu'elle veut et aller nager à la piscine. Sauf que quelque chose l'a suivie dans ses bagages : l'ombre de la mort... Kumiko sait comment l’arrêter : elle décide de s’équiper d’un aspirateur et de capturer le mauvais esprit ! Mais peut-on vraiment échapper à la Grande Faucheuse ?

Chor der Pilze

Walter Mosley

Christopher Caldwell

Nghi Vo

Malka Older

Kathleen Alcalá

Tananarive Due

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Jaymee Goh

Alex Jennings

Karin Lowachee

Darcie Little Badger

Tlotlo Tsamaase

Minsoo Kang

Saad Hossain

K. Tempest Bradford

Geetanjali Vandemark

Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races to tell us tales no one has ever told. Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders. Including stories by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.

New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

In a house not at all reminiscent of "Little House on the Prairie", four Japanese-Canadian sisters struggle to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat.

David Bateman

A Collaborative Long Poem

Wait Until Late Afternoon, Or Distilled, Decanted & Debauched

The breathtaking follow-up to the award-winning "Half World" Adopted as an infant, Gee has been kept ignorant of his troubled past. Now, at sixteen, he is a loner both despised and feared by his classmates. Dark feelings slowly grow inside him, but as he struggles to control them, his past catches up with him. Abandoning his adoptive grandmother and the place he has called home, Gee is compelled to travel to Half World, one of the Three Realms all living things must pass through. Fractured at one time, the Realms of the Flesh, Spirit and Half World have been reunited, but they are at risk: their fate rests on Gee's own journey of self-discovery. With two unlikely companions, a heartless cat and a self-destructive Neo Goth girl, Gee must fight the monstrous and the horrific--and, most difficult of all, he must overcome his own propensity for evil. Gripping and mesmerizing, "Darkest Light" is a compelling journey through despair in a desperate search for redemption.

Aries Cheung

One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.

The Water of Possibility

N. K. Jemisin

Nisi Shawl

Karen Burnham

Systems Fail celebrates the work of Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin, WisCon 38's Guests of Honor. The volume includes two pieces of Goto's short fiction, N.K. Jemisin's Nebula Award-nominated story "Non-Zero Probabilities," and a selection of Jemisin's essays as well as her 2013 Continuum IX Guest of Honor speech. In addition, the authors talk at length with interviewers knowledgeable about their work: Goto with writer and editor Nisi Shawl, and Jemisin with critic and scholar Karen Burnham.

Systems Fail

Hiromi Goto

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