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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781988964492
Publisher: Undertow Publications
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
LOCUS AWARD WINNER
WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST
NEBULA AWARD WINNER (Uncertain Sons Novelette)
PHILIP K. DICK AWARD SPECIAL CITATION
BRAM STOKER AWARD(R) NOMINEE (Uncertain Sons Novelette)
BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FINALIST
IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST (Uncertain Sons Novelette)
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW HORROR 2025
Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; and alternate near-future irrealities. Sharp, incisive, imaginative, and visionary, Thomas Ha's debut heralds the arrival of a vital new voice.
PRAISE FOR UNCERTAIN SONS
You! Yes, you! You need this book! The stories in Uncertain Sons already feel like classics of the uncanny. As inventive as Ray Bradbury, as unsettling as Thomas Ligotti or Carmen Maria Machado, Ha knows how to produce that peculiar, pleasurable, creeping sense of wrongness and dislocation so particular to weird horror. I am such a fan of Thomas Ha's writing-and I expect that you will be, too.
-Kelly Link, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Book of Love and Get in Trouble
Thomas Ha's first collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, offers a unique voice and stylistic range. Engaging characters in believable yet off kilter realities will remind readers of their own lives. One of the very best new collections I've seen in a while.
-Jeffrey Ford, Author of A Natural History of Hell and Crackpot Palace
A devastatingly good book of stories. Thomas Ha offers glimpses of weird worlds that continue to bubble and spread in your mind long after you finish the stories, slowly seeping into every crevice of your brain. This is a collection I wish I'd written. This is weird horror at its very best.
-Brian Evenson, Author of Good Night, Sleep Tight, and The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
A perfect puzzle box, beautifully constructed and impeccably watertight. Together these stories drop us into a world agonizingly like our own-but we mustn't let our guard down once we're in. Wise as well as clever, sharp as well as tender. Ha is a virtuoso.
-Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of The Butcher of the Forest
This book is all the evidence you need that Ha is one of the powerful emerging voices in short fiction.
-John Wiswell, Nebula Award-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In and Wearing the Lion
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