Thomas Ha

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Thomas Ha is a Nebula, Ignyte, Hugo, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction. You can find his work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Weird Horror Magazine, among other publications. His work has also appeared in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family.

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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, a debut short story collection of dark science-fiction, strange fantasy, and weird horror, from award-winning publisher Undertow Publications.

Featuring stories of familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; and alternate near-future irrealities.

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Reviewers at Strange Horizons, Jake Casella Brookins, Dan Hartland, Jacqueline Nyathi, and William Shaw, recommend Uncertain Sons and Other Stories in their 2025 Year-in-Review.

Ancillary Review of Books on Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: “[F]ans of speculative fiction of any substrata will find something to get hooked by here….Ha puts me in mind of Kelly Link for the almost inexcusable speed with which he invokes compelling characters, and of Julio Cortázar for the intricate and forceful strangeness of his stories.”

“The Sort” was featured on It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton; “House Traveler,” came out in PseudoPod as well. Both fantastic audio productions.

Czech translation rights to Uncertain Sons and Other Stories sold to publisher Planeta9.

The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2025, which includes “The Sort,” is now available at all major booksellers.

Uncertain Sons was recently highlighted as a “knockout short story collection” by Book Riot and one of the top 20 Horror books of 2025 by The New York Public Library.

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is now officially out in the world! Available wherever books are sold.

William Shaw at Strange Horizons calls Uncertain Sons and Other Stories:[A]n engaging, kinetic, and profoundly well-crafted set of stories.

Happy to announce I am now represented by Michael Curry at the Donald Maass Literary Agency!

Sam Reader of Strange Library reviews Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: “[S]trange, affecting, and beautiful….one of the best collections of the year.” Reviewer Tar Vol says, “If you like weird horror at all, don’t wait, preorder this collection immediately.

Vanessa Fogg recommends In My Country” and “The Cephalophore.”

“The Sort” will be in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2025, which is now available for pre-order!

Reactor Magazine reviewer Alex Brown recommends “Old Wells.”

“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” is a Hugo Finalist!

“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” is a Nebula Finalist!

The NoSleep Podcast did a new audio version of “In That Crumbling Home” (starts around 1 hour 37 minutes in, available to premium subscribers). The original was published in Bourbon Penn in 2022.

“The Sort” was included on the British Science Fiction Association awards longlist and the Locus Recommended Reading List.The Los Angeles Review of Books recently covered The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024, including positive coverage of “Window Boy.”