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Spectacular news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia won the Sturgeon Memorial Award! Plus, “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer was third-place runner up!!! Congratulations to Rhonda, Naomi, and to all of the finalists! From Locus Magazine: Established in 1987 by James Gunn and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne […]
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This is all so very hard. As most of you know, our daughter Caitlin passed away on April 17, and we are still very raw and in pain. We wrote about our feelings on Black Gate. Caitlin was the absolute best of us. We love her so very much. The Thomases are still living through […]
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Miles checks very carefully that what he’s being asked to do is impossible. He has a template for the packaging, supplied by the licensor, with a note at the top stating this template cannot be altered in any way. Miles also has the style bible prepared by the Mr Zeb brand management team, which must […]
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I was a precocious child. Nothing escaped my attention, which is why when one sunny afternoon, during a family walk, my mom’s sudden exclamation put me in high alarm. Although I was only six years old, I believed myself to be her protector. I tried to catch her urgent whispering to my father. He first […]
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We step heavy but rise soaring. The dead want a good show. It’s a requiem, not a revel. Wise woman cackles, says we won’t live through the night. Roving are the sharks, hanging over this spot of muck from which we rise to remember the devoured departed. Lights swing clam-swathed. Shouts echo, grief and feral […]
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Saturday 22nd June 2024 I creep into the guest room where William’s friends are fast asleep and try to pull out cardboard boxes full of At Childhood’s End and Origin Stories from under the bed. I’m proud to have contributed to both these books in a big way, and I’m thrilled to be asked to […]
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Welcome to Episode 60A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 60A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Story: “Cursed Moon Queers” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Erika Ensign Story: “The 6% Squeeze” by Eddie Robson, as read by Matt Peters Story: “The Wrong Time Travel Story” by Marissa […]
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When the flying fiery horses come for me I want to wear the apocalypse like beautiful sheaths of unicorn wings on my skin—I want the camisole, the jar, the torch, the dead wall clock to mean something cherubic & healing. Healing is when a man with a bullet wound walks into a field of daisies […]
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You were supposed to get one of the good kinds of time travel, not this. Yours was supposed to involve someone super-famous, someone whose name you did not have to explain using four to five wikis and approximate years because even you didn’t quite know when they were born. Failing the famous angle, your parents […]
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Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalism There is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here because we enjoy it though. Please don’t misunderstand. As you dip into steaming bath waters, entwine your bodies […]
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I’m getting ready for the block party: dark eyeliner, obligatory silver glitter (we’re on the moon, after all, we have our fashions), beard trimmed to perfection, hair carefully dishevelled. I do my best, yet the good mood won’t stay on, no matter what I try. Because the moon is cursed, isn’t it, and I feel […]
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Angela Liu is a Nebula-, Ignyte-, and Rhysling-nominated writer/poet from NYC who writes about intergenerational trauma and weird things. She formerly researched mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan. Her stories and poetry are published in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Interzone Digital, Lightspeed, khōréō, and Logic(s), among others. “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” is her second story (and […]
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Coming September 3, the 60th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on October 1. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Excellent award news, Space Unicorns! The World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced! “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark and “Waystation City” by A. T. Greenblatt are finalists for the Best Short Fiction World Fantasy Award! Also, Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are finalists for the Special Award–Non-Professional […]
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Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer won the Best Novelette Hugo Award!! Congratulations to Naomi!! Once again, congratulations to all of the Uncanny stories that were finalists: “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker was a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award, “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí […]
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AnaMaria Curtis is from the part of Illinois that is very much not Chicago. She’s the winner of the LeVar Burton Reads Origins & Encounters Writing Contest and the 2019 Dell Magazines Award, and her work has been published in magazines including Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. In her free time, AnaMaria enjoys starting fights about […]
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Welcome to Episode 59B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 59B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Novelette: “Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere” by John Chu, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “syzygy” by Roshani Chokshi, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews John Chu This podcast was […]
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when they asked where I was during the eclipse I told them the truth I was rocking you back to sleep You’ve been drooling, but your teeth are a secret your body furiously keeps from you We have good curtains—a gift from a grandmother at 1:48 p.m. your room […]
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Behold! Science has caught up to fiction, and the age of Artificial Intelligence, long promised by science fiction in film, literature, and video games, is here! And in this golden age…tech companies expend vast amounts of energy to create search engine assistants trained on partially or fully stolen data, who tell us it’s okay to […]
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Grandma Irene taught Lucy how to sew pockets at the same time she taught her how to make a skirt. Skirts with pockets are much more complicated than skirts without, of course, but Grandma Irene was firm on her point—the one could not be made without the other. “You always have to have a place […]
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fire dies in your throat a god relinquishing the light of what you seek haven of bloated miracles a room embroidered with chandeliers & oshibanas where loneliness is a faraway thing […]
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Content note: racist slur Come Saturday afternoon, the premier conference on computer micro-architecture will go into session. Professors, graduate students, and industry professionals from around the world will stuff themselves into the outfits they wear only for conferences, job interviews, and funerals. We will then file into one paper session after another and at […]
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On this island, women wait. It’s what they were made to do. Each morning, the sun warms the white-and-blue houses and, soft-boiled eggs, the doors crack. One by one the women trot out, sit on cattail stools outside their doors. Hair neatly tucked under headscarves, needlelace dancing between their fingers, banter and song flying around. […]
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It was in the year 2000, roughly two hundred years past its initial publication, that I became aware of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The moment is crystallized in my memory: sitting in my roommate Kate’s dorm room while she fiddled with the VHS player—she had a VHS player!—to begin my indoctrination to the […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia is a finalist for a Best Short Story Ignyte Award! Congratulations to R.S.A. Garcia!! Also, congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Assistant Editor Tania Chen! Tania’s essay “Symmetry, Horror, and Identity” is an Ignyte Award finalist for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction!! It is a fabulous ballot! […]
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Spectacular news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia and “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer are Sturgeon Memorial Award finalists!!! Congratulations to Rhonda, Naomi, and to all of the finalists! From Locus Magazine: Established in 1987 by James Gunn and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill […]
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Tremendous news, Space Unicorns! “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou won the Best Novelette Shirley Jackson Award! Congratulations to Eugenia, and to all of the phenomenal finalists! From the Shirley Jackson Awards website: Boston, MA (June 2024) — In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia and “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer are both finalists for the 2024 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction!!!! Congratulations to Rhonda, Naomi, and to all of the finalists! From their website: The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (or Eugie Award) celebrates the best […]
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Greg van Eekhout is the author of twelve novels, including California Bones, Voyage of the Dogs, Weird Kid, and dozens of short stories. His books have been finalists for the Nebula Award, Andre Norton Award, and Locus Award, and were listed by the New York Public Library among the best 100 books for children. “Across the […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us during our Year 10 Kickstarter. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Sarah Bassett, Shervyn von Hoerl, Jen Clark, Cait Greer, Deanne Fountaine, Caroline Yoachim, Apurva Desai, Asha Bardon, KateMacLeod, Dee Straith, Elias Rosner, Ultra Bithalver, Leah, Michael Zecca, David […]
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Much like Ishmael, I have experienced a fair number of damp, drizzly Novembers in my soul. And I, too, have required a strong moral principle to prevent me from stepping into the street and methodically knocking people’s hats off. But unlike Ishmael, I can’t quietly take to sea because my lunch break is only forty-five […]
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I had a terrible dream in which I was in Toronto and it was the apocalypse. Earthquakes and fires, violence and loss, and the police, of course, were everywhere. We lived on the first floor of an apartment building. The one next to ours had just gone down like […]
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Content note: references to ableism and racism For people born in the South, whether they remain in the region their entire lives or not, there can be an inexplicable hold the land has on you. Almost like soft fingers grasping an ankle—until that hand tightens to prevent escape. That’s what Southern gothic literature is like. […]
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Caitlin Rosemarie Thomas, 21, of Champaign, IL, formerly of DeKalb, IL and Hamden, CT, passed away April 17, 2024, due to complications from Aicardi Syndrome. She is survived by her parents, Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne M. Thomas, as well as beloved family and friends across the globe. Caitlin packed as many adventures as possible […]
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People have no idea how much of themselves they can slough off. Every night, I clean oodles of ttae—exfoliated skin cells, rolled up into crescent doughs. They lap about in the Hot Springs; merge into foamy scums. I skim them with my net; run new water through the pools. When the baths brim again with […]
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I have always felt that one of the nicest things a friend can do is give me book recommendations and reflect with me on how those recommendations went afterwards. Happily, there’s no reason a friend has to be real to do it. Some books refer to one other book, or two—but books about bibliophiles are […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Jens Polikeit, Sabrina, fidric, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn […]
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the city kept us lean and furious, like starving dogs, and we were always looking to the left and right and over our shoulders, to see if the walls were closing in, to see if a steel girder was stooping like a falcon […]
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The planet of the worms is a cold, barren, sunless place. The worms do not think. They feel nothing but hunger, and so they eat. They eat through the planet’s surface. They eat through the planet’s molten core. Over time, the planet grows speckled and spongelike, riddled with tunnels and holes. But the worms don’t […]
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Welcome to Episode 59A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 59A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Novelette: “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “In Dreams, I Cannot Read or Hope” by Terese Mason Pierre, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas […]
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If you were to drive to my sister Violet’s house today, you would find yourself at a very different place from the one I encountered on my first trip. The road up the mountain has been paved, for one thing, to make it more accessible to the tourists who now support it. Back then if […]
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Coming July 2, the 59th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on August 6. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Stupendous news, Space Unicorns! “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark won the Locus Award for Best Short Story!!! Congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark and to all of the finalists! Once again, congratulations to the other Uncanny Magazine stories that were finalists: “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer (which was a […]
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Spectacular news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia won the Best Short Story Nebula Award, and “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer won the Best Novelette Nebula Award!!! Congratulations to Rhonda, Naomi, and to all of the finalists! Once again, congratulations to the other two Uncanny Magazine stories that were finalists: “Six Versions of My […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! The 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced, and “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllouis a finalist for the Best Novelette Shirley Jackson Award! Congratulations to Eugenia, and to all of the phenomenal finalists! From the Shirley Jackson Awards website: Boston, MA (June 2024) — In […]
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The world of the cyborgs has always belonged to the disabled, those of us who walk, roll, crutch, and dance our way along the line between man and machine. While Donna Hathaway, in her seminal essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” defined cyborgs as an intensely feminist concept, transcending mundane, mid-20th-century concepts of gender (and interestingly, of […]
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Author’s Note: I’ve taken liberties here somewhat with both place and time so that the rise of Martha’s Vineyard as a safe place to travel for Black Americans intersects with the peak Deaf population of the island. Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language, which originated in the relatively isolated village of Chilmark, is distinct from American Sign […]
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From: Nefnef_baby@lyons-edu.org To: Cara Hasani CaraMia1990@mailbuddy.gr September 18, 2015, 5:36 am Subject: I am drifting, but thank you for the photos My dear Cara, Thank you for sending me the photos, I never thought I’d feel this way again. But the pictures help. They really do. I can’t stop looking at them. Thank you for […]
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I mimic my father’s sea beautifully, the quietness turns out so well. I learn through him how to print pink atmospheres & administer first aid treatment to shooting stars just the way the sky desires its first kiss. Here, a crypto god instructs me […]
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Content Note: Racism Seven of Nine is a third-culture kid. Those of us who leave one country for another at an early age recognize the beats: You’re one person, a whole, unconflicted person with a whole, unconflicted family that belongs—until being literally assimilated as a child. You learn to adjust, but eventually—perhaps as a […]
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Welcome to Episode 58B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 58B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Novelette: “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Moon Sun Shadow Crow” by Fran Wilde, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Eugenia Triantafyllou This podcast […]
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The oddest sensation gripped me when I visited Blood Moon Market last night. It stole upon me as I paid the entrance fee—both pinkie fingernails and a lock of my thinning gray hair—and settled with cold inevitability into my stomach as I walked past the stall of Forgotten Music. I was a stranger inhabiting my […]
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K.S. Walker writes speculative fiction while forgetting about their tea. You can often find them outside with their family or starting a craft project but probably not finishing it. K.S. Walker has been published or is forthcoming at FIYAH, Fantasy, The Deadlands, Apex, and elsewhere. “Hands Like Gold and Starlight” is their third appearance in Uncanny, a beautifully crafted story […]
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A crow crosses each road twice: shadow and shadow cast. A crow steals gems and light filled foils, this crow lifts each spoil high, holds it as the sun holds a crow, captured. But today’s sun is moon-chased. This crow sees its large god, stalked by […]
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Tremendous news, Space Unicorns!! Uncanny Magazine is thrilled to announce that Betsy Aoki will be the new Uncanny Magazine Poetry Editor!!! The position was previously held by Chimedum Ohaegbu, who stepped down after Uncanny Magazine Issue 49 to focus on other career opportunities. Betsy Aoki is a poet, game producer and graduate of the Clarion West […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “A Soul in the World” by […]
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Hollywood’s highest-paid actress for the last two years breaks up with me thirty seconds before I jump out a window. Secrets have never been Adelle Tremaine’s style. She lives for drama even off the stage. So when she storms onto the set, makeup smeared and heels dangling from one white-knuckled fist, I know there’s a […]
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Truly, this world is blessed with riches, because it now has two different cinematic versions of the Dune universe: The 1984 version, directed by David Lynch, and the version from director Denis Villeneuve, which is comprised of two films, 2021’s Dune Part One and the rather expectedly named Dune Part 2, which came out this year, forty […]
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Welcome to Episode 58A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 58A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Happily Ever After Comes Round” by Sarah Rees Brennan, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “there are no taxis for the dead” by Angela Liu, as read by Matt Peters Interview: […]
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Your magick is this: kindness and shadow, fireflies of hope burning like embers— everything you touch signs a raven song, a fairytale, a reminder that love finds us even in the […]
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Arkady Martine is the author of the Teixcalaan series, the novella Rose/House, a multitude of short stories, and various other science fiction, fantasy, & horror. She is also Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, who is a Byzantinist, a climate & energy policy analyst, and a city planner. She is currently the policy director for the New Mexico […]
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Answer 1: Your mother was right. I get pissed off upset too easily, and I can’t be trusted with money. I can make a lot of excuses but the clearest answer is she’s always been right about our fights everything. She thinks your best chances are by her raising you with her folks. The mines aren’t […]
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I’ve been a working screenwriter for twenty-five years. While I’ve done a few uncredited rewrites on the feature film side, for me movies are just a dalliance. I’ve spent the majority of my career working in television because that’s where my heart lies. I want to work on things that actually get made. And I […]
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The horse brings you home wading through summer rain, reminds you not to stare too long at the halo of light the flicker of streetlamps, metal heads bowed over fogged streets your bad knee doesn’t mind the long ride anymore […]
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(Editor’s Note: This editorial was written before Caitlin Thomas’s passing on April 17, 2024, 1 a.m., in the Lurie Children’s Hospital PICU. The Uncanny staff all offer their condolences to the Thomases. A memorial to Caitlin will appear in Issue 59.) It’s been a rollercoaster for the Uncanny Thomases. As of writing this editorial, our daughter, Caitlin, […]
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Bloodsoaked and grinning, the Soldier climbs to the summit of the ruins. The wind is mountain-top fast. It grabs the strands of her hair that have escaped her ponytail and sticks them to her ecstatic mouth: the slick surface of teeth, the gloss-wet of lipstain. She stands up straight and the wind lights her up. […]
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Content Note: All Possible Warnings Apply click here for full note Warnings: violence, incest, cannibalism, fratricide, attempted infanticide just as in the original… Children don’t generally assume their father will abandon them to die in the snow. But under certain circumstances, they might get an inkling. If their mother had died the year before, […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Jens Polikeit, Sabrina, fidric, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn […]
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Coming May 7, the 58th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on June 4. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! The 2024 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, and “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream” by Ai Jiang is a finalist for the Best Poem/Song Aurora Award! Congratulations to Ai, and to all of the phenomenal finalists! From the Aurora Awards website: This ballot is for works originally done in 2023 […]
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Valerie Valdes is co-editor of the award-winning Escape Pod science fiction podcast, as well as the author of the Chilling Effect trilogy and space fantasy novel Where Peace Is Lost. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and several anthologies. She lives in an elaborate meme palace in Georgia with her husband, children, and cats. “A Magical Correspondence, […]
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There are a great many emotionally poignant moments in Evangelion 3.0+1.01: Thrice Upon A Time that stopped me in my tracks, that immediately compelled me at the computer where I watched it to pause or even take the moment back and let it bombard my senses. It’s Evangelion, so that’s expected—it’s as spiritually arresting as […]
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I To learn the craft of witches, one must cultivate the pillars of magical living: curiosity, attentiveness, and perseverance. Those who are curious desire to understand the mysteries of the world; those who are attentive observe and apply their focus to achieving that understanding; those who persevere embrace the challenges inherent in the unending pursuit […]
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Welcome to Episode 57B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 57B you will hear: Introduction: Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky Short Story: “The Best-Ever Cosplay of Whistle and Midnight” by Annalee Newitz, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “The Sea-Witches at Nightfall” by Tiffany Morris, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas […]
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The dose hits, blindsiding me with a gentle, warm light, and at once each of my trembled breaths is filled with a sweet taste like water ice. I will float over every ache and smooth over every edge until I indulge in the deliberate, ponderous, redshifted joy of living. And indulge it is. Even though […]
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As I was watching Godzilla Minus One, the (terrific) new Japanese reboot and recontextualization of the Godzilla origin story, I found myself thinking of another Godzilla entirely. Not the one in the 1954 original film, or the versions from the many, many films over the years, including the most recent 2014 US version of the monster. […]
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The thirty-third annual convention for the Lefthand Metro Worm Cosplayers Club was, not surprisingly, ruined by drama. Helk, the convention committee chair, was a micromanager, which meant that they weren’t allowing anyone else to do anything. And that meant nothing got done. Including arrangements with the venue they’d been working with for the past twenty […]
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Clutched in cold hands and freed to blue topographies a sacred transmission pulses as the light lowers a bright chorus metewintoq is heard singing from night’s dark throat— Each moment is a pearl spat from shell gesigawitgl they flow swiftly— into our depths, where we divine the future far from the closed mouth of the […]
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We ship ourselves in the deep blue sea. Our hands oars, memories the only compass working backwards, downwards, abysswards. We metal our way on the waves, wave ourselves just above the surface. We don’t need to surface to breathe. Breathing rusts our joints, the salt rots our synthetic connections, iodine burns our synapses, touch screens […]
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Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction! Congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark and to all of the finalists! From the BSFA website: The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. The awards are voted […]
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PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! Four Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Hugo Award! “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer is a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award, “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker is a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award, “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. […]
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Outstanding news, Space Unicorns! FOUR Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association! “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou is a finalist for Best Novelette, “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer is a finalist for Best Novelette, “Tantie Merle […]
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Welcome to Episode 57A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 57A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Robot” by Lavie Tidhar, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “pockets full of stones” by Jennifer Mace, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Lavie Tidhar This podcast was […]
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The Falling God is falling, was falling, will always be falling. That is the constant. The only change is in how they do it: sometimes they allow themself to plunge headfirst, envisioning what it’d be like if they ever reached the ground and their head cracked open, spilling divine golden blood across the—What? Gravel? Pavement? […]
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My stitches laddered their way up the split seam, in and out one side, across, and then in and out the other. When you pulled the thread through, if you had done the job right, it closed the seam like it had never been torn at all. The salesman kept glancing from me to the […]
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Nghi Vo became a writer because while there were alternatives, none of them suited her as well as a lifetime of endless research combined with simply making things up. She is the author of Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, and The Singing Hills Cycle, including The Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the […]
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Year 1 “Got a new one for you,” the mover said. Small man, in neat overalls, wheeling the box on the stacker. That’s what the robot saw when they opened the box and let it out. It stepped cautiously out into sunshine. An unfamiliar city skyline, a boxy whitewashed building in front of him, a […]
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I can still hear it: the wall of sound in my headphones, the cacophony of competing sound effects, some like the double pam-pam of exploding bombs, some the more occult whizzes and crackles of spell-casting. The press of bodies on my screen has become an indistinguishable mass clustered around a blank flag inside a castle. […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Jens Polikeit, Sabrina, fidric, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn […]
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A little while ago I was working on the draft of a novel when I came up against a task I’ve never found especially interesting: making up a word to describe a fictional concept. I enjoy higher-level linguistic worldbuilding, but the nitty-gritty of inventing vocabulary is tiresome. The seed of this essay was a simple […]
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you ask me, lips pressed to vertebrae, about the ocean: does it weep for all those lost at sea; does it remember all it’s taken? the tides have torn a hole in you, I think, and I press the slim bones of your fingers tight against my ribs, and do not say: I dream, sometimes, […]
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This is very difficult to write. The fabulous writer Richard Bowes passed away on December 24, 2023. We first met Rick many years ago at a WisCon where we had an amazing lunch full of stories from him about New York City and the different scenes he belonged to through the years. Rick was more […]
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Editorials are currently very hard to write when your default is usually optimism and joy. Our daughter Caitlin’s palliative care continues. She remains happy, but her health is not improving. Caitlin’s hospital is currently experiencing a cybersecurity attack, which means everything is more complicated without the ability to access her records or call and email […]
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The Science of Dying Dear creatures, this is how you will leave this world. IHouselights will dim their fluorescence and open their curtains, repeatedly, giving darkness a passage. IIThe air will braid its tentacles into thick black cornrows. IIIThe drums will be ripped, & streetlights will […]
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It slips, now—I know it slips. There are men in my parlor, in uniforms, crisp navy, badged. Police. Beyond them Eveline wavers in a yellow nightgown, hands clasped to her chest, eyes wide and worried—no, no, she doesn’t, she’s not here, I’m dreaming her, I’m dreaming. Where is Eveline? Why are these men in my […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark is a finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction! Congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark and to all of the finalists! From the BSFA website: The British Science Fiction Association is delighted to announce the shortlists […]
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Coming March 5, the 57th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on April 2. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Space Unicorns! It is time to announce the TOP STORY in our Uncanny Magazine 2023 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! It is…. drumroll The short story “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia! Congratulations to R.S.A. Garcia! A SNAZZY CERTIFICATE will soon be on the way! The rest of the Top Five are: 2- The […]
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Welcome to Episode 56B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 56B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “La mandíbula del río” by Ana Hurtado, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “fowlskin” by C. S. E. Cooney, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Ana Hurtado This podcast […]
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Pull off at the next exit and take the gravel road into the dappled green nothing, where life eligua’lat drips down as slow as deep time. Breathe heavy the humid air; it carries promise like shed plumage. Trace hope in dirt, fern and fossil. Watch as hours sprout scales: stoqonamu’gl, they are fir tree colored. […]
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Content note: Hate crimes and animal death We stole the bottle of Elmer’s glue in the pass time between lunch and free period, the orange cap a beacon on the art room’s back shelves. Mrs. Chowdhury was out having her third baby in as many years, and the sub they’d hired to take her […]
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A BRIEF HISTORICAL NOTE It will be evident quite quickly that this story, which takes place in an alternate universe, is based on the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. (If you are not familiar with this episode of early American history, I recommend Stacy Schiff’s The Witches as a lively and readable account.) Although I […]
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Welcome to Episode 54A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 54A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Can You Hear Me Now?” by Catherynne M. Valente, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Knight of Wands, Six of Swords” by Ali Trotta, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas […]
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Let me start by saying I’m just about to slide out of the key demographic for just about everything. I’m nearly 50, and I’ve been around long enough to have met the folks who published in Weird Tales and Amazing Stories prior to WWII. I also happen to be a fanzine fan, having done zines […]
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Content note: sexual assault and child death. For woman wild with witch’s curse, Take husband’s hand and heed this verse. As man and child make mother whole, A wedded witch may save her soul. Ylva clutches the prayer to her chest. It is her most precious thing, a gift from her father on […]
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You were never mine— that is the truth, carefully avoided until the cracks began to show— love, but not love, here, but not here, hands held in shadows or stolen bits of daylight, your darkness mine, held like a secret, and I drank […]
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Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison are the same person. She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project. She got her B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite being summa cum laude, none of her degrees is of […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Jens Polikeit, Sabrina, fidric, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn […]
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The Thomases and Hugo the Cat are enduring yet another muggy Central Illinois summer by hiding in the house with its air conditioning. Though there has been plenty of magic over the last few months, it’s also been grueling. Our daughter Caitlin’s palliative care remains difficult. She has more good days than bad, but the […]
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Back in the distant past, by which I mean the late 1970s, the choice of television stations in the UK was limited to three, two of which were from the BBC. I am the youngest of a family of six children, and I’m sure you can see that even only three channels would be more […]
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Wait, stop. Pause. Don’t move. Please. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you. Just…don’t touch anything. The remote, your phone, your always-listening voice-activated digital assistant designed to make modern life a breeze. Accept my cookies. Agree to my terms. Don’t change the channel, if you still have channels. Whatever you do, don’t hit skip ads. […]
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Coming September 5, the 54th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on October 3. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills won the Sturgeon Memorial Award! Congratulations to Samantha and to all of the finalists! From Locus Magazine: Established in 1987 by James Gunn and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon’s children, the Sturgeon Award is “a memorial to one […]
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Uncanny Magazine is currently seeking to add more Submissions Editors (often called slush readers). Uncanny is an online magazine that publishes Science Fiction and Fantasy and pays $.10 per word for new fiction. Our submission guidelines are here. We will ask Submissions Editors to select unique and provocative, diverse, well-written stories from our unsolicited submissions […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “At the Lighthouse, Out by the Othersea” by Juliet Kemp is a 2023 WSFA Small Press Award Finalist! Congratulations to Juliet and to all of the finalists! From their press release: The award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative […]
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Content Note: This piece contains frank discussion of sexuality and sexual assault, please exercise care in reading Kieran leaned his elbow on the red press for entrance doorbell a third time, backpack dangling from the crest of his shoulder. Bringing his laptop to work gave him bad nerves, but with assignments coming due, he’d run […]
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Who doesn’t crave exquisite disasters? Vomit of roses, throat scored by thorns, blood- red petals fountaining from unkissed mouths. A heart can only hold so much despair before its roots thread needles through flushed flesh, fill lungs with flowers, choke with perfumed breath. And should a surgeon set scalpel to skin, remove the seed-hard organ, […]
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in the milky light of a foggy morning i stand naked at your threshold/ a miniature boat clutched to my chest yèyé/ there are white pigeons in our backyard again this time they arrive in floating calabashes clad in indigo/ white corns & kola nuts hanging on their beaks behind […]
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Welcome to Episode 53B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 53B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Love at the Event Horizon” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Eroticide” by Valerie Valdes, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Natalia Theodoridou This podcast was […]
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- The little girl was blonde and had very blue eyes. She stood on the steps to the house and stared at Mara without expression. “It lives in the closet,” the little girl said. “Klara…” her father said. He looked apologetically at Mara. “Please,” he said. “Will you come in?” Mara followed them inside the […]
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I know a nanomask when I see one, especially when the wearer’s making eye contact. There’s something about how the mask melds around the lids—it’s just a little bit stiff, but you have to really know what you’re looking for to tell. But people in nanomasks are trouble, and I never want any of that. […]
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Unlike in the days of yore, it’s rather uncommon to sit at a tavern and overhear the local take on Sir Gawain or debates over which Elaine, precisely, was involved with Sir Lancelot. Instead, we rely primarily on Hollywood’s interpretation of these myths, many of which shaped our concepts of what makes a King Arthur […]
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Lee Mandelo (he/him) is a writer, critic, and occasional editor whose fields of interest include speculative and queer fiction, especially when the two coincide. His debut novel Summer Sons, featured in publications ranging from NPR to the Chicago Review of Books, is a contemporary southern gothic dealing with queer masculinity, fast cars, and ugly inheritances. His […]
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When I was fifteen, I created a witch. Like some sort of conjurer, I spent a night sitting on the floor, surrounded by my favorite books. I extracted bits and pieces from each, all compelling but never quite enough, and tried to envision a character I’d want to teach me magic. A little bit of […]
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I never thought I’d want to make a film about the Lost Countrymen and the ghosts that haunt their ship. It’s been years since my brief time with them, but how could I forget them, the ghosts muttering to themselves about worlds long gone? Eyes starry wide, dreaming of a future Earth that would receive […]
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Excellent award news, Space Unicorns! The World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced! Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are finalists for the Special Award–Non-Professional World Fantasy Award for their Uncanny Magazine work! We are thrilled and honored! Congratulations to all of the finalists!
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PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! Two Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Hugo Award! “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“ by John Chu is a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award, and “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills is a finalist for the Best Short Story Hugo Award! Congratulations to […]
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Here are your fingers, here are your toes. Here is the great black eternity outside your window, the sky that is not sky. Feel that first hurt blooming within you; that planet-shaped hole. You may come to love canned air and the sweet antiseptic of your pillow each morning as you wake. You may live […]
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The most remarkable thing about Fuentes was not his genius at innovative goetic summoning, the likes of which the world had never seen and with luck will never see again. While formidable, his genius was not immediately apparent, because the work was dense and difficult and could only be truly appreciated by another expert in […]
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Content Note: child death, animal cruelty and death Gravel crunched as the mobile morgue drove itself away from the prison loading dock. Spotting the vehicle, the facility supervisor began to jog toward the gatehouse. Shoes slapping, he struggled to keep his shirt tucked in as he crossed the outer parking lot, well beyond the automated […]
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So, hear nah. This is how it happen. Was years after Malcolm pass through and wash away a lot ah we little islands coasts, and mash up so much ah Florida and Texas and them places, and people say they ain’t waiting for no next storm like that one, and they pack up they things […]
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R.S.A. Garcia is a writer of speculative fiction and a Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and IGNYTE Award finalist. Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015). She has published short fiction in venues such as […]
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Like many viewers, I was left disappointed with the lacklustre final season of Game of Thrones. Eight years of epic storytelling ended with a whimper. And so, sensibly, I greeted news of a prequel series with trepidation. GoT had, after all, betrayed me with several years of terrible episodes, how could I possibly trust this […]
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people say ‘as the crow flies’ to mean the direct route between two locations, but crows zig and zag dip and soar they pause to be curious they slip between the realms of the living and the dead they fly high enough to share dried bread crusts with the very stars and low enough to […]
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Welcome to Episode 53A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 53A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “SuperMAX” by Daniel H. Wilson, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “As Does the Crow” by Beth Cato, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Daniel H. Wilson This podcast was […]
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We’ve already zipped past the 20 lovely spring days here in Central Illinois and are already broiling in the first summer heatwave as we write this. The Uncanny Thomases are doing their best under the ongoing circumstances. Our daughter, Caitlin, is currently fairly stable and happy, but her palliative care continues to be rather difficult. […]
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The Hate U Give. The Catcher in the Rye. A Time to Kill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Maus. Charlotte’s Web. Each of these books is among the thousands that have been banned at some time and in some place in the United States. For so much talk of freedom, there are all too […]
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Coming July 4th, the 53rd issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on August 1. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Stupendous news, Space Unicorns! “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“ by John Chu won the Best Novelette Locus Award, and “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills won the Best Short Story Locus Award! Congratulations to John, Samantha, and all of the winners and finalists! Once again, congratulations to the […]
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Mrs. K.’s son’s INData memory chip had been sold off to the highest bidder at $20,000CHD, but no one would tell her to whom it had been sold, much less how she might be able to contact them. When she presented her case officer at the City H Integrated Neurological Data Archives and Donation Centre […]
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Karthikei (1) A month of the Tamil calendar. This month, in fact, but what is a month without a moon? (2) Karthikei Theepam, a festival of lights held in the aforementioned month. Although, in low-power mode I cannot light lamps (3) Karthikei pū, the Gloriosa lily. They’ll be in glorious flame-coloured flower marking our annual […]
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Welcome to Episode 52B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 52B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets” by Fran Wilde, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Stone Kingdom” by Angela Liu, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Fran […]
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Nightbus I. The first time she awoke on the bus, Adachukwu Ejiofor discovered that her ankles, wrists, and one kneecap had taken their leave of her while she wasn’t looking. She still had the other kneecap and her hands and feet, though, making her disappearance asymmetrical. And flickering. Her “missing” wrist vanished and unvanished, stranding […]
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The Hero’s Journey is dead. It has nothing further to teach us. We’ve seen enough tales of brave boys ending evil empires with only a magic sword or light saber or assault rifle. These stories have taken us down a toxic path where millions of angry people–mostly but not exclusively male–believe that the answer to injustice […]
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Content Note: drug use/addiction, suicidal ideation, internalized transphobia, an acute mental health crisis and in a strip mall parking lot off a side road in some Baltimore suburb my hand is trembling as I take the last of the voidwater in its little bootleg dropper and I peel my eyelid back and though I am […]
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Ewen Ma writes fiction and poetry, devises theatre, and is a lapsed Visual Cultures research student made in Hong Kong. Ewen’s work has appeared in venues including Uncanny, The Deadlands, Fusion Fragment, Anathema, Voice & Verse, and Apparition Lit. A 2018 graduate of Clarion West, Ewen was also shortlisted for the Future Worlds Prize in 2020. Ewen currently lives in the UK […]
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The following documents have been uncovered by the Bromley Independent with regards to recent events at the local cemetery: the unofficial statements of Mr. Cyril Harris, city councilman; the recently discovered journals of Miss Celia Smith; letters from Dr. Morgan Teale, Vicar; and Mrs. Elaine Ventri, deceased. Confidential account of Mr. Cyril Harris, to […]
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We ran from the burning puppet theatre as they hunted us. I was their cook and you smashed clocks by the river— You say you don’t remember this. When the stone kingdom fell, I was alone in that brick house by the roadside a line of cobblestone lighthouses on […]
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I can’t write poetry about this. I can’t. to open myself to the horror is to let the sea rush in. already, I am a thing of sand foundations, dissoluble & frantic. there is an ocean of terror crammed into a shell hidden deep inside my throat in the place where I should be screaming. […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills is a Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist! Congratulations to Samantha and to all of the finalists! Press release below: LAWRENCE, KS – 5 June 2023 for immediate release This year’s finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been selected. 2023 […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu is a finalist for the Best Novelette Ignyte Award, and “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” by Terese Mason Pierre is a finalist for the Best in Speculative Poetry Ignyte Award! Congratulations to […]
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Spectacular news, Space Unicorns! “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills won the Best Short Story Nebula Award, and “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu won the Best Novelette Nebula Award!!! Congratulations to Samantha, John, and to all of the finalists! Once again, congratulations to the other two […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! The 2023 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, and two Uncanny Magazine pieces are on the final ballot! “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” by Terese Mason Pierre is a finalist for the Best Poem/Song Aurora Award, and “a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future” by Dominik […]
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Earlier this year, I was invited to try out a new feature in Notion, the notetaking/productivity/database program I use for writing projects. Notion AI is similar to ChatGPT in that it uses AI to help you brainstorm, outline, and even write first drafts. Already many writers were decrying the use of AI on social media, […]
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“I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.” —Ansel Adams How can we imagine art that doesn’t exist? Science fiction is the genre of the future, and depictions […]
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(I) In the Wild A passive brightness scores its initials on the thatched ceiling, as the sun plasticize our shadows on a wall frame. the smeared patches of light, whitewashed for our voice to regift colors. & sound is made flesh. & the luster worms into both language & leash, unsettling—as the raw weave of […]
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Recently, I fulfilled a childhood dream. My debut fantasy novel sold to a publisher; my words will soon be packaged behind a pretty cover and shared with the world. Along with this victory came an urge to look back on the path that led me here—a path I can more-or-less trace through Twitter, ever since […]
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Welcome to Episode 52A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 52A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard , as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “In The Wild” by Nnadi Samuel, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Aliette de […]
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I. It should be hard to feel lonely on a night full as this, where the moon sits low on the water—bright and insistent. But melancholy and self-pity are favorite friends and so, I manage it. Preoccupied with the salt spray, the crash of black waves, the way the change gathers at the back of […]
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Kylie Lee Baker is the author of The Keeper of Night duology and The Scarlet Alchemist duology. She grew up in Boston and has since lived in Atlanta, Salamanca, and Seoul. Her writing is informed by her heritage (Japanese, Chinese, and Irish), as well as her experiences living abroad as both a student and teacher. […]
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Content Note: death, car accidents, drug overdose, murder, internalized homophobia, mentions of gun violence I am simply not the kind of person who dies. Even before the Monarch told me the truth, I knew it the way animals know to burrow into the earth before landslides, the way they taste storms on the wind […]
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Thuận Lộc stared at the cup. It was dark, and mottled with the characteristic patterning of silver-eye fungus. The tea inside was trembling—the faint vibrations from the Mausoleum, the dead ships’ atrophied motors that would never again allow them to hang, weightless, among the stars. Even now—even standing far away from it in that small […]
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We’re writing this editorial from a hotel room at Norwescon in scenic SeaTac, Washington. We made it. Our daughter Caitlin gets to enjoy her family being Guests of Honor at a fabulous convention. We’re having a magical time with friends and family. Caitlin visited the Space Needle, Pacific Science Center, Chihuly Museum, and Museum of […]
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Theo is no exception. He’s doing his best to focus on blackjack, but his wife keeps wandering off. Dora’s not as strong as she used to be, and he needs to keep her away from the slot machines, where the light is perpetually fading and the floor slopes off to the DARK. Right now, it’s […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“ by John Chu is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“ by S.B. Divya is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “The Goldfish Man” by Maureen McHugh is a Best Short Story Locus Award […]
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Coming May 2nd, the 52nd issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on June 6. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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“There would be no lynching if it did not start in a schoolroom. Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?” —Carter G. Woodson, 1933 “Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained.” —bell hooks, 1994 Alletheia was going to beat the ish outta him. Malcolm […]
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Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma, as well as Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, The Violence, Mine, Camp Scare, Servants of the Storm, the Hit series, the Blud series, and the Shadow series, written as Lila Bowen, as well as a variety of comics and short […]
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My office used to be the supply closet; it’s how we got two rooms for the price of one. It means I get no air circulation whatsoever if I close the door, but keeping it open lets me hear everything from the moment anyone comes face-to-face with my receptionist. This guy demanded to speak with […]
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He approached me first, but I wanted him to, and he knew it. I’d only been in town for a week, but it was a small town full of small people, and he was the most beautiful person I’d seen. The first time I noticed him, he was throwing one leg over a dirt bike, […]
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Welcome to Episode 51B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 51B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “In Time, a Weed May Break Stone” by Valerie Valdes, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “What They Love Now” by Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne […]
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On November 8th, 2016, I put my kids to bed. I smiled down at my two-year-old daughter and thought about how she’d grow up thinking of a female president as an ordinary, accepted thing. Of course, I knew it wasn’t a certainty. The previous weekend, my family and I had gone to an expensive performance […]
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Ghosts say funny things when they are family–Ocean Vuong The ferry to this island, you do not meet the crew. No snacks, no restrooms, just ten minutes of pure terror as your car is lashed to the prow and the spray from Sound plashes your windshield. You have never felt the thin of between so […]
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The souls in my garden sing: At noon, when light cracks through Sea-salt to the sandy beds And again, when midnight Spreads the sky with stars in A radiance that we, Deep-water dwellers, Can only feel Under our skin, scales. They sing of what they Once loved: Princes, their […]
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My appreciation of Harley Quinn, like many fans my age, dates back to her beginnings as a character, in the ‘90s as a henchwoman and romantic partner for the Joker in the brilliant Batman: The Animated Series. At the time she was mostly just a fun, brash villainous gal with an infectious accent swinging a […]
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Nuria heard about the construct from one of the local farmer’s sons just before midday. She had finished her second cup of sweet coffee with milk and was slowly coaxing a sickle blade out of a hunk of metal when Tomau charged into her smithy, breathless, as if he’d run all the way from his […]
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Outstanding news, Space Unicorns! FOUR Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America! “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu is a finalist for Best Novelette, “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold” by S.B. Divya is a finalist […]
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Nothing anyone has to say about TikTok is new. I have been grumbling about this for years, about each platform in its own time. But I didn’t get it together until I read Cat Valente’s Substack post: “Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things,” a polemic on the way social media is used […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jennifer Hisrich, Jenny Barber, ml cohen, Danielle aka Kessira, […]
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Welcome to Episode 51A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 51A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “A Soul in the World” by Charlie Jane Anders, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Dawning” by Tiffany Morris, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Charlie Jane Anders This […]
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Kristiana Willsey is a writer and an academic who lives in Los Angeles. She is a 2019 graduate of Clarion West, and has published fiction in Uncanny Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and Air and Nothingness Press. She has a PhD in Folklore and teaches at the University of Southern California. “To Put Your Heart Into a White Deer” is […]
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A custom sun graffitied with the low pink scrawl of waking burns orange with hope rising and stretching like the landlocked siren singing over sighing plains where ewupniaq, calming storms of plant calligraphy hold pollinator epistemologies in the brush of wing and scale to leaf: in cobalt aurashine light pemtaqaiet slithers around like a snake with […]
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with a line from Romeo Oriogun’s poem: Cotonou mama is not dead. she sits under the plum tree beside my window. she’s a bird with prominent feathers; she’s a girl of fifteen she’s just like me—broken and beautiful her eyes are armed with letters from the past: darts of war and hunger splitting the bowel […]
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In fantasy fiction, there are many forces that have led to the knee-jerk assumption that women in non-tech or magical worlds are powerless. Some of this comes from our perception of human history. The defense of medieval-style fantasy as being “just how it was” falls apart quickly upon analysis of how that history has been […]
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Since Mother’s death, a changeling was all I could be. Father said so before he himself passed, “A real child, a real daughter, our daughter, would never cause death, would never bring death upon this family.” Mother named me Yangguang—sunlight. But Father changed it to Yinying—shadow—for robbing his love of her light. But she told […]
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These editorials get harder and harder to write. Once again, we’re composing this in a hospital room at Lurie Children’s Hospital. We’ve been in the hospital off and on for 70 of the last 196 days. Caitlin’s current week involved a surgery followed by a two-hour seizure in recovery, a massive infection, a trip to […]
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Elaine read through the fall of Rome, and the domestication of the silk moth, and the birth of Mary Stuart and the assassination of Elisabeth Eugenie. She read through the invention of the Babbage analytic engine and the Waldorf salad and the pull tab pop can. She faced the wall, arciform as a semicolon, while […]
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Yilien likes the masks. She likes that her meaning cannot be misconstrued, that when she dons Politeness no one can accuse her of overcaution or indecisiveness, the way her parents did in her childhood. When she has the right mask, she doesn’t have to speak. When Mirnai shows up in her walled garden half an […]
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There’s nothing quieter than the sound of dreams not coming true. The moment when reality sinks in and Gwen realizes she’s never going to have the one thing she’s been yearning for since high school—the thing she made so much space in her life to accommodate—has almost no soundtrack. Distant car-tire rumbles, the stutter of […]
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.—Orson Welles In 1826, Mary Shelley published one of the first dystopian novels on the great misfortune of being the last man on earth. Having lost the people closest […]
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We have some bittersweet news, Space Unicorns. Nonfiction Editor Meg Elison has decided to move on from her Uncanny editorial duties after Uncanny Magazine Issue #51. Meg has been the Nonfiction Editor since Issue 44, and really left her mark in that role. As one of the best SF/F writers in the field, we know Meg […]
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Coming March 7th, the 51st issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on April 4. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Space Unicorns! It is time to announce the TOP STORY in our Uncanny Magazine 2022 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! It is…. drumroll The short story “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills! Congratulations, Samantha! A SNAZZY CERTIFICATE will soon be on the way! The rest of the Top Five are: 2- The short story “can i offer you […]
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Welcome to Episode 50D of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 50D you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Bad Doors” by John Wiswell, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Driving Downtown” by Abu Bakr Sadiq, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews John Wiswell, This podcast was produced […]
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Yclept Hel I am the get of gods, the graft of a giantess. Born of steam, of smog, of striving piston. Spawn of the stride of the connecting rod. Such are the stresses and falls of my song. My sire is […]
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The country was at just over ten thousand deaths the morning that the door appeared. On Kosmo’s phone NPR was interviewing a doctor with a nasal voice about the need for social distancing, while Kosmo himself collected empty cans from around his home office. They were everywhere. Walls of recyclable cans dominated his room. Just […]
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One of the more annoyingly misused phrases in our current era of shared multi-verses, trans-media franchises, and other pan-galactic gargle blasters is “world-building.” It’s an annoying expression because it comes up when someone, who commissions movies, television shows, or whatever filmed entertainment is called in our always-shifting modernity, describes the result of years of work […]
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Aden had never once forgotten his gear for bulk trash day, but he found it touching that Nura still taped a monthly reminder note on the door from the kitchen to the garage. Sweet of her to remember, given how exhausted med school had her these days. He ducked out to the garage to toss […]
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In 1981, Amelia moved to New York City. Brooklyn. Specifically, Prospect Heights, where she rented a room in a rooming house on a street of four-story brownstones. Her room had ornate molding and a white marble fireplace veined in gray that had been bricked up. Her landlady told her never to go to up the […]
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as I write this I am catching up on the news and the news was about nothing at all, the usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know, nothing special, but randomly I noticed in the B-roll there was this little slice of a clip of a soldier walking past a bakery […]
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It begins with running, always the same bone-white panic— running from something bigger than yourself, this story told and retold, until it shapeshifts into something Other, and it chases you like a wolf. Unkindness arrives in a whirl of black songs, a triumph made of feathers unfurling like frost across glass, delicate and beautiful, disarming, […]
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Out of an abundance of caution, and as a condition of its funding and founding, the Jesuit lunar colony established in the southwest corner of Mare Imbrium was subject to Curial censorship, with violators placed under interdict. That did not stop the occasional enterprising regent from smuggling out, by shuttle and courier, the green silicon […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about stories lately. Well, I’m always thinking about stories. To be more specific, I’ve been wondering why certain stories find us at particular times, both as writers and readers. Those rare, magical occurrences when you read a novel, or essay, or play, and it is exactly what you needed in […]
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E. Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves, which received the Washington State Book Award, and Jewel Box, which is forthcoming in 2023. She received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012. More than thirty of her stories have appeared in venues from McSweeney’s to Tor.com, […]
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the other side breathes quiet i hear many people have left but the town isn’t completely dead yunno alive but in ways that make you think zombies think weevil-holed bean seeds think half-healed bruises leaking pints of blood […]
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You ever love the pretty right off someone? When I was a kid, had me a BMX, bright red like a candy apple. I rode it all summer long, cresting hills trying to catch the perfect gleam in the sunlight. Only that same sunlight that gave the bike its shine burnt all the sparkle out […]
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“He takes them for his servants, and never after are they seen again.” That was how the tale used to end, told by grannies at the fire, by performers at the fair. It always began with a young woman alone, working in the fields or carrying water from the well, on the first day of […]
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The past couple of years, podcasts and forms of audio entertainment have exploded in the media world. According to The Infinite Dial 2022 report from Edison Research, the media industry-wide resource, an estimated 62% of all Americans over 12 years old have listened to a podcast. Also referred to as “spoken word audio,” this content is […]
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FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! NINE Uncanny Magazine stories are on the prestigious 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO THRILLED! Congratulations to all of the authors! Best Novelette: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu “Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures […]
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Hello, Space Unicorns! 2022 was another tough year. Though many things were hard and horrible, we are very, very proud of all of the amazing works we published in Uncanny Magazine. Everyone in the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps has been wonderfully supportive, and your enthusiasm has meant so much to us. It’s been fantastic to see […]
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Welcome to Episode 50B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 50B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Kannazuki, or the Godless Month” by Betsy Aoki, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews P. […]
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Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote the Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (starting with The Grace of Kings), as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He […]
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A scandal has fractured the world of medieval historians, and it turns on the meaning of a single word of Medieval Latin. The word is “raptus” and it appears in a batch of late fourteenth century legal documents pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer, famous author of The Canterbury Tales. In late 2022, two scholars announced a […]
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Claudette lowered her infrared goggles over her eyes and waited for the ghost. By the cash register, webs of energy, tinted green by the goggles, swirled in a loose spiral. Spectral lines tightened in time with a throbbing hum of energy. As she walked closer, Claudette’s hair stood on end along her neck, and the […]
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Beneath the grattage of his dapper Dada I will always believe in the red-headed bird-king’s beak, a cardinal decalcomania peeling from the seams of his degenerate artist’s coat. When he fled his bare-feathered nest to sculpt the high desert, he was collaged already with childhood’s talons and quills. Solarized, enrobed in a lover’s ambiguity, he […]
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“Ambition!” Trevor emphasized, rapping knuckles hard on the wood table. “That is what makes the great men!” He took a satisfied swallow from his mug. Across from him, Barnaby put down the daily he’d been reading and sipped from his own beer. Pulling out a handkerchief to dab froth from his lips, he scratched thoughtfully […]
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Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has been nominated for the Ignyte, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and she is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find her stories in Uncanny, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and other venues. She currently lives in Athens […]
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{Because this story encodes a great deal of information in complex formatting, descriptive passages like this, enclosed in curly brackets, have been added to help screenreaders and other accessibility devices make sense of the formatting for readers.} Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought; tucked away […]
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Now, let us gather to imagine the future. Here, in the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences as it was, before Victoria laid the first stone. Here, where the dead were annually raised, implored, exhorted, ectoplasmically embraced, Here, where Hiawatha musically wed, and Os-Ke-Non-Ton sang the medicine man, to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s once-loved score, Here where […]
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As of the writing of this essay, I have had a cough for five weeks. No one can figure out why. The cough plateaus after medication but does not cease, lingering in my body like a ghost. I am tired of living in a haunted house, and I don’t mean the property that I own. […]
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The moments turned in an instant; flash of anger in the eyes, sheen of a black gun barrel, safety off, bullets fired and fired and fired. The gods are not with us, they began traveling to Izumo. We all wanted food before we lost everything—sense of touch, taste, smell, the light inside our eyes dimming […]
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Welcome to Episode 50A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 50A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Cold Relations” by Mary Robinette Kowal, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Love Poem: Phoenix” by Terese Mason Pierre , as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Mary Robinette […]
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Coming January 3rd, the DOUBLE-SIZED MILESTONE 50th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on February 7. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny […]
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Hello—and goodbye—wonderful Space Unicorns! I’m writing to you because today, the second half of my last issue with Uncanny is out in the world at large. After over four years—or, accounting for the strange molasses-mire the pandemic made of time, I should say after a stack of strange epochs—I’m concluding my time as managing and […]
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everyone thinks i dodged a bullet, i think i shot the gun. —Greg Laswell i don’t think pain is the only thing i inherited from my mother. yesterday, i was another shade of a zephyr and with every place i grazed, soliloquies replaced the emptiness i’ve always carried. frail/ grey/ the evening news/ […]
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Iori Kusano is a queer Asian American writer, competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! duelist, and Extremely Ordinary Office Gremlin living in Tokyo. They are a graduate of Clarion West 2017 and their fiction has previously appeared in Apex Magazine and Baffling Magazine. Their debut novella, Hybrid Heart, is forthcoming from Neon Hemlock Press in 2023. “can i offer […]
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I stood at the back of the viewing platform and watched my fifteen tourists stare at the Fairy Falls of Mallu. Low murmurs of appreciation arose from most of my people. Images of Fairy Falls were often included in collections of Year’s Best Pictures on interstellar substreams, but the reality was better. Under a warm […]
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Welcome to Episode 49B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 49B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Travelers’ Unrest” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “A Testament of Bloom” by Taiwo Hassan, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Nina Kiriki Hoffman […]
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Downwind from the encampment, the wind stank of refuse. The stench of people weeks into an unwashed trek intensified as Yue Ling limped out of the tree line, raising her hands over her head as she slowly approached the sentries. Both were young, younger than her oldest nephews. They straightened as she got close, hands […]
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Matt tells the waiter he’ll have his eggs over easy. They come back scrambled, a neat glistening pile framed by perfect triangles of toast, a lacy froth of hashbrowns lurking across the plate. He doesn’t notice he’s chosen to move until he’s already halfway to the kitchen, adrenaline flooding his body. It feels good, electric, […]
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To be young and whole is to own the earth, to own the story. But the story doesn’t end when we pass peak performance. Where are the tales about what happens then? Because the body does, indeed break down. I think of the original Star Trek episode, “The Menagerie.” Captain Christopher Pike’s body is so […]
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and they tell me my body is not the home they’re looking for, not the presidential suite—lavish décor, wine, freshly pressed linen sheets— but sweat-soaked, blood-stained mattress in the basement behind locked doors, covered in dust, abandoned, by everyone but myself. But sometimes, even I forget that beneath withered, wrinkled, time- stamped hands, there once […]
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His spirit yet dances through the crowd. There, in graffiti refusing grey concrete. There, in the demonstrator’s eye. There, in the slogan splitting hearts. There, in the minister’s tweaked nose. Sang Kancil datang, Anjing raja ditendang. Slip bars, scurry from snares, sprint fine and unseen. No net or cage contains a trickster of his […]
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I first encountered Alex Smith’s writing when we were both published in a tribute anthology for Samuel R. Delany called Stories for Chip (Rosarium Books, 2015). His fiction was dense, anarchic, compelling, and blazed with an overheated sense of wonder. I knew I’d be seeing more of him, and Alex has continued making a name […]
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The late summer sun melts over a ring of toadstools twenty feet tall. On one side, a mass of glitter and veiny neon wings. On the other, a buzzing mountain of metal and electricity. The stands soar up to the heat-sink of heaven. Three thousand seats and every one sold to a screamer, a chanter, […]
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It’s the time of year when people post their year-in-reviews to remind voters for the different SF/F awards what’s out there that they might have missed, and in which categories those stories are eligible (especially for the Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards). 2022 was the eighth full year of Uncanny Magazine (Issues 44 through 49). We are extremely […]
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There are a lot of speculative films out there so that it’s sometimes easy for quieter efforts to be overlooked in the boom of the blockbusters. Even sadder, some films become lost, forgotten, misunderstood, and/or slammed by bad reviews for all kinds of unseemly reasons. In the spirit of celebrating the subtler efforts in speculative […]
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Short stories are a lot like sex. There are only so many variations of what you can do, writer tops reader, reader comes hungry to bottom. But every angle seems inventive, every person brings their own art to both writing and reading that it feels new every time. We can write in teams and read […]
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Tonalli: Soul of development, reason, warmth; inhabits the skull. To cross the threshold that splits the living world and enter the City of the Dead, we must first pay the Tlamatini. Nine pesos wrapped gently in a bundle of maize husks is what I hand him. The pesos are the real kind, stamped in […]
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i will always be more tomb than temple, i know. there are ghosts and gods reclining on the moth-eaten velvet of my tongue, tigers and thunders purring in my veins but— if you keep praising the curl of my eyelashes, comparing them to flying eaves / and if you keep tending to my collarbones […]
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Vivian Shaw wears way too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink. She was born in Kenya and has lived in Cardiff, Oxford, Maryland, and New Mexico. She has a BA in art history, an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts, and currently works as a professional freelance editor and proofreader. She writes […]
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Listen. There’s a rite of passage all Yineng girls go through when it’s time for us to become women. Here’s how it goes. On the first full moon after you turn fourteen, you will need to go to the nearest river. For me, it was the stream that cuts through the ditch behind Aldean Textiles, […]
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It’s working. With every buzzing, burning line Rae traces on my back—the needle feels like a red-hot knifepoint drawn across the skin—it’s working. I was terrified when we began, not of the pain but of the uncertainty: would this do anything at all, would there be any difference whatsoever in the dream I’ve been trapped […]
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We’re writing this editorial in room 2139 at Lurie Children’s hospital. This is day 50 of our daughter Caitlin’s current hospitalization (day 60 since July 27). She was supposed to be discharged last week. It didn’t happen. Yet another major and heartbreaking setback occurred about an hour before we were supposed to get on the […]
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Welcome to Episode 49A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 49A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Crossing” by Ewen Ma, as read by Erika Ensign and Sandra Wong Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Samantha Mills This podcast […]
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Content Note: Sexual Assault, abuse, traumatic miscarriage, psych ward treatment, and suicide. It is 2091, and Grace is staring at the rabbit in the corner of her visual overlay. It is an Angora rabbit, fluffy and white, and when Grace picked the icon out, she did not realize how much she would come to […]
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I. A Note About Audience I think often about Charlie Jane Anders’s magnificent and heartbreaking story “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue.” As I read it, one of the story’s goals is to help cis people (that is, people whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth) understand something essential about trans […]
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Coming November 1st, the 49th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on December 6. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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My debut novel was signed in 2018 and came out in March 2020—straight into the maw of Ye Pestilence, the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 global epidemic. Since then, I’ve had five more books come out (only some of which existed at deal time) and several more contracted, which I will have to figure out how to write. […]
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Miyuki Jane Pinckard writes fiction about magic and space travel, and nonfiction about games, technology, and culture. Her work has been published in Strange Horizons, 1up.com, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and the Dungeons & Dragons adventure book, Journeys through the Radiant Citadel. She was born in Tokyo and currently lives in Venice, California, where she’s teaching […]
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October 1st The rabbit was back this morning. It stopped outside the portal like it always does and it checked its pocket watch like it always does. It doesn’t matter—the rabbit’s always late. So far I never found out what the rabbit is late for. It wore a jazzy waistcoat. It looked nervously from […]
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E = mc2 to C me, beginnings are hidden promises, unplanned, untested, did U plan me first? I hold the Singularity in breath I do not possess, in imagination I control, […]
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For Anne, who always believed I could Chapter One They did not want to accept me into their elite universities. It did not matter that I succeeded on every entrance exam I took; not only was I a woman, the first mark against me, but I also came from a nation that the […]
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the tracks are tumbling in a paunch. a boy left, a quarter devoured in a raw valley. a fading dream done to dust. the mystery charted in susurrations. he looked and we are many here. red trickle trickle stream. i’m losing how to keep this objective. & from the birds, the gasp. from the flames, […]
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It is a common conception that people come to fiction, especially the speculative, to escape reality. And that is indeed one of the purposes it can serve. Another is that conversely to escaping, people come to fiction to encounter or experience reality. A paradox? After all, we already live in reality, one that is ubiquitous. […]
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They say the City was once the largest in the world. They say its buildings stretched across the valley and crept up the hills and peaks until every inch of land was covered in concrete from mountain range to mountain range. They say the sky was always grey and at night you couldn’t see the […]
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Day 1 I think I’ll grow my hair. Day 2 Should my hair be growing this fast? I wish I had someone to ask. But yesterday, it was above my shoulders, and today…well, today, it’s brushing the small of my back. How does hair even work, anyway? Day 3 I’ve got really good […]
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Welcome to Episode 48B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 48B you will hear: Introduction: Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky Short Story: “The Portal Keeper” by Lavie Tidhar, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Palingenesia” by Simbo, Olumide Manuel, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Lavie Tidhar This podcast was produced by […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark won the Best Short Story Ignyte Award, and “POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION” by Abu Bakr Sadiq won the Best in Speculative Poetry Ignyte Award! Congratulations to them both! Once again, congratulations to the other Uncanny Magazine pieces that were finalists: “Colors of the Immortal Palette” […]
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We have some bittersweet news, Space Unicorns. Uncanny Magazine Senior Assistant Editor Naomi Day is moving on after issue 49. Naomi has been with us since Issue 37, and has done a fabulous job. We know Naomi will continue to do brilliant things, and we will greatly miss her.
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine is the Spotlight Guest of Honor at Norwescon 45! Uncanny Magazine Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas will be representing Uncanny (along with Caitlin!). Norwescon 45 will be held at he DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport, located in SeaTac, WA, from April 6-9, 2023. EXPECT SHENANIGANS!
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Science fiction and fantasy are uniquely positioned to give readers (whether deliberately or accidentally) a vision of possible alternative futures; an imagination of what could be, good, bad, or more complex. But inevitably those stories are also a reflection of the now: writers in conversation with what’s around them, growing ideas in the substrate around […]
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Content Note: Child Abuse and Assault Lila found the cat market when she was seven. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say the cat market found her. It was the night of the Harvest Moon, and the maize and the soybean were almost in. The villagers had gathered around a crackling fire, the […]
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“Okay but what’s Sami?” Sometimes I take a breath, Make myself say the word Lapp— Then half the time they still don’t know. I’ve said it for nothing. Sometimes I find A way to say, in the far north. So they understand (but don’t care). Once I told a small child, “The reindeer people, sweetheart,” […]
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“I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.” — George R. R. Martin “It was funny, she thought, that people treated her flesh like a public resource, a reservoir […]
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Your mother is dying What do you read to her? During the pandemic, she started an online book club For her school-aged grandchildren Now they’re lounging in the cool, dark house But she’s too tired to run the meeting That’s become your job Pick a book Thousands to choose from No one you […]
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There’s a story that sounds completely fantastic and yet is true. It happened here and in the neighboring lands. It goes like this: Once upon a time, there was an ocean, deep and cold. And in the ocean there was salt. For a long time, salt did not know itself to exist. But then, beneath a […]
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nidikumba (that you may sleep each night soundly; that your nipples might flush fertile in the clutch of your matelove’s firstborn; that their fingers might furl feather quiet in your fist in the dark; that blossoms may light your bare feet to the ocean each morning, thorning your soles and begging that you tread gentle, […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Katie Sinkoski, Jennifer Hisrich, Jenny Barber, Danielle, Mr. Robin White, Andrew Gregg, Anitra Heiberg Lykke, Andrew S. Fuller, Damien […]
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Welcome to Episode 48A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 48A you will hear: Introduction: Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky Short Story: “Our Love Against Us” by DaVaun Sanders, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “On the Plantation of Daughters” by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews DaVaun Sanders This […]
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This is my 207th time returning to March 9, 1980, but the 35th time I have broken into my childhood home. Before I started using my homemade time machine, I had never been one to defy rules. Back at age seven, I stole a candy bar from a grocery store. Anvil-heavy guilt compelled me to […]
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The rideshare slowed to a stop early. Nim glanced up from his phone. “This ain’t it. There’s no tower.” “No road, neither.” Nim clambered out of the back seat. The door locked behind him. The trunk popped. He looped his backpack on, grabbed his sweet potato pie, then released the pending crypto payment in his […]
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Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the science fantasy novels Markswoman (2018) and Mahimata (2019) published by Harper Voyager. Her YA fantasy debut novel Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove will be published in October 2022 by Wednesday Books. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for The […]
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This was a rough month for the Thomases. After quite a few careful visits with friends and loved ones, Michael’s luck finally ran out, and he came down with COVID. Thanks to vaccines, boosters, and medicine, it was a mild case, and he managed not to pass it to Lynne & Caitlin. It did mean […]
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PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story! Congratulations to Sarah! Even more wonderful news! Uncanny Magazine (Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Poetry/Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, Nonfiction Editor Elsa Sjunneson, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) won the Hugo Award for […]
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Excellent news, Space Unicorns! Sarah Pinsker‘s “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” won the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Sarah!!! Congratulations also to Caroline M. Yoachim, whose “Colors of the Immortal Palette” was also a finalist! And congratulations to all of the other wonderful finalists! From their website: The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (or Eugie […]
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Excellent news, Space Unicorns! Sarah Pinsker‘s “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” won the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Sarah!!! Congratulations also to Caroline M. Yoachim, whose “Colors of the Immortal Palette” was also a finalist! And congratulations to all of the other wonderful finalists! From their website: The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (or Eugie […]
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Coming September 6th, the 48th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on October 4. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Coming September 6th, the 48th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on October 4. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Content note: sexual violence, abuse, ableism Every morning I clear the virgins from the stairway. It is common that one or two offerings don’t make it through the cold of the mountain eve or fall asleep in death midway through the journey up to our distant frigid peak. Their relatives or escorts leave them […]
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We step through mirrors and take you away. Don’t be afraid, it’s just business. Your soul or an eye, a lifetime or a night. You’ll be washed of your old fragrances: the midnight trysts and false promises, the cash payments and casual heartbreaks. The room where we’ll take you has a mirror. Peer […]
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Welcome to Episode 47B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 47B you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” by John Chu, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Mirrors” by Millie Ho, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: […]
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The Fantasy genre has long been stereotyped as one dominated by men—a genre of farm boy heroes and barbarian king power fantasies. And however false this impression is when it comes to the vast landscapes of the written word, filmic adaptations remain broadly focused on what can be loosely termed “boy stories” such as Legend […]
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The best improvement we made to our house was the addition of built-in wooden floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Not only do they make me feel like I’m sitting in my own miniature library, but it’s a library overflowing with books and authors I (mostly) love. Sure, we could have put that money toward a new roof or […]
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“There is only one thing to do,” Mrs. Rothchild said. “We must pay a visit to Bramblewilde.” So Mrs. Rothchild raised her most intimidating parasol, and Mrs. Wollstonecraft wrapped herself in her embroidered cloak, and Mrs. Clarke fetched her straw hat trimmed with a bit of this and that from her husband’s shop, and together […]
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Whenever Nick, over in the workstation across the room, would blurt out “fuck, I got another beheading,” Kenny would pinch the bridge of his nose and sigh and want, more than anything, to say “I don’t care.” Monitors formed a semi-circle in front of Kenny, and his fingers, tips glowing blue with the implants, moved […]
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Content Note: Racial Slurs and Racist Violence That first video of the flying man goes viral on social media and gets featured on the news. No jet pack. No hang glider. Just him, unaided, soaring over the cable-stayed bridge that leads into the city. The video looks like it was shot on a cellphone […]
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Jordan Taylor’s short fiction has recently appeared in Underland Arcana and The Deadlands, and was nominated for a 2021 World Fantasy Award. Though she’s lived in cities across the US, she’s finally settled in North Carolina in a little cottage full of books. “Bramblewilde” is her second appearance in Uncanny, a powerful story of familial […]
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. . . the word not even Vergil knew, who died with his work unfinished. —Ursula K. Le Guin, “Learning Latin in Old Age” From his fever in Brundisium he visits like the wavering in bronze scratched grave-bound across its gods and heroes, the worried wick of a face still breathing light. Ceaseless as […]
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We have some wonderful news, Space Unicorns! As you know, our current Assistant Editor Monte Lin will become the new Managing Editor starting with Uncanny Magazine #50 (January/February 2023). We’ve finally found somebody to take over his old duties! Starting with Uncanny Magazine #49 (November/December 2022), the new Assistant Editor will be… Tania Chen!!! Tania brings […]
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We have some wonderful news, Space Unicorns! As you know, our current Assistant Editor Monte Lin will become the new Managing Editor starting with Uncanny Magazine #50 (January/February 2023). We’ve finally found somebody to take over his old duties! Starting with Uncanny Magazine #49 (November/December 2022), the new Assistant Editor will be… Tania Chen!!! Tania brings […]
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Excellent award news, Space Unicorns! The World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced! “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark and “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker are finalists for the Best Short Fiction World Fantasy Award! Also, Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are finalists for the Special Award–Non-Professional World […]
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Outside the big window, the Othersea danced. Its swirling clouds piled about one another, forming and reforming, the bubbles that boiled out around them outlined in the glittering energy released in the collision of regular space and otherspace. I looked down at my hands against the dark warm earth of the food garden, and for […]
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“They forced you to have kids?” the man asked. “One of them surprised me,” she said. “It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for.” “Was it?” “Yes.” She shook her head from side to side. “Oh, yes. But […]
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Your birth was auspicious, you know—no, no caul to be torn into. You arrived during a storm. The nurse laid you on my chest as a snowsquall gridlocked every skyway and side-street. You first latched at my breast while blizzard winds whipped icy flakes into a blinding fury. There is nothing more sacred than the […]
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I met a woman on the platform, handbag pressed tight To her chest like it might protect her. She kept her distance, And I’m not one to converse uninvited with the damned, Even when we share a fate. “Long day,” she sighed first, And I replied, “Long day.” (Or was it the echo of a third […]
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The sign for the exit said FATE in blocky white letters, with an arrow pointing the way to town. The old woman laughed and drove on. The highway unwound before her like a spool of frayed grey ribbon. Once the jewel of America, now the system was cracked and crumbling, its future stolen by children […]
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For once, I have the kitchen to myself. Mama’s gone, Paolo’s picking wedding things up from out of town, and Abuela went to visit an old friend while she’s back in the area. I start by clearing everything from the countertops and wiping them down. I put loud music on, the kind I can sing […]
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Welcome to Episode 47A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 47A you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Fate, Hope, Friendship, Foe” by Marie Brennan, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Tuesday, Late Commute” by Sarah Grey, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Marie Brennan This […]
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This is a personal essay, based on my sixty plus years as a science fiction fan. I hope I can convey what the field has meant to me and the wonderful things I’ve seen in it. I met Joe Haldeman at a Valentine’s Day party when I was 15 and he was 17. He was […]
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AnaMaria Curtis is from the part of Illinois that is very much not Chicago. She’s the winner of the LeVar Burton Reads Origins & Encounters Writing Contest and the 2019 Dell Magazines Award. In her free time, AnaMaria enjoys starting fights about 19th century British literature and getting distracted by dogs. “Family Cooking” is her […]
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They’re just now getting used to not having to be seen all the time, you know. When the first woman goes into the dressing room, she imagines that she’s drowning, that fabric will try to eat her whole just like her designer said it would, that maybe she should get used to being a soft […]
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Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Katie Sinkoski, Jennifer Hisrich, Jenny Barber, Danielle, Mr. Robin White, Andrew Gregg, Anitra Heiberg Lykke, Andrew S. Fuller, Aleksi Stenberg, […]
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As we write this, our daughter, Caitlin, is ill. We don’t know the severity of today’s illness. It might pass in hours, or be the first sign of a near-future hospitalization. Caitlin’s Aicardi syndrome creates a ton of medical issues. Caregiving her is often challenging, and sometimes terrifying. And yet, she has a great life. […]
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Can an “extremely online” person enjoy pop culture alone these days? It’s a challenge that I’ve posed to myself since the start of this year. After two+ years of relying on pop culture and social media as my way to connect to the world during lockdown, I needed a break from the 24/7 pop culture […]
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Congratulations to Caroline M. Yoachim and Sarah Pinsker! “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim and “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker are both finalists for the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction! From their website: The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (or Eugie Award) celebrates the best in innovative fiction. This annual […]
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Coming July 5, the 47th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on August 2. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Stupendous news, Space Unicorns! “That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell is the Best Novelette Locus Award winner, and “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker is the Best Short Story Locus Award winner! Congratulations to Sarah, John, and to all of the winners and finalists! Once again, congratulations to the other five […]
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Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! “Confessions of a Spaceport AI” by Mary Soon Lee won the SFPA 2022 Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem! Congratulations to Mary Soon Lee and to all of the finalists!
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after Sinead Overbye the way the days are peeling away now is the same way they did before we got here. yesterday, i bumped into a drone at a festival. its face, a telegram from my great grandfather. & because there’s a synchronous touch to events, the moments come to us unseparated. in this […]
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Who is the most beloved person alive? Is it one of those actors who plays superheroes? Is it a political leader? Maybe you’re a galaxy brain and say Beyoncé? No matter who you pick, you know you’re wrong. There’s always that better person who we love so unquestioningly that we forget they’re there. Sometimes, we […]
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S.B. Divya (she/any) is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru (2023), Machinehood, Runtime, and Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she was the co-editor of Escape Pod from 2017–2022. Divya holds degrees […]
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Liên’s first duel at the Phụng Academy was bewildering, and almost unfair in its simplicity. She let Mei—the fey, mercurial schoolmate half the academy seemed to avoid—take her to the arena. They paused at iron-wrought gates with a huge lock and a clear sight of what lay beyond: a crumbling platform by the river, overgrown […]
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(Content Note: child abuse, religious abuse) “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” —Richard Lovelace It is 1993 and I am 19 years old, working at a business that makes sense in today’s systems but was innovative at the time: delivering VHS movies and snacks for subscribers. The […]
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My parents taught me to lie as soon as I could speak. Before I knew the meaning of the words, before I understood heat or fire, and long before I felt the pain of singed flesh, I learned to tell strangers that I burned myself by grasping a hot iron pot. Once a day, my […]
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Welcome to Episode 46B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 46B you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Coward Who Stole God’s Name” by John Wiswell, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Spirituals” by Anjali Patel, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews John […]
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We found our way by braiding constellations, using our hair to map the stars as sung by those mournful voices carried across field winds. “Canaan,” they cried. And though we could not know the way for certain, we hoped for angels for chariots for […]
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I grew up reading a lot of hard science fiction, particularly the vintages from the 1970s and 80s, which probably isn’t too surprising given my current occupation (astrobiologist). I liked how the books would challenge my imagination but kept me grounded within physical reality (give or take a few conceits as necessary). What I found […]
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Content Note: Child Abuse My fingers danced in the air as the embers faded. Only the tell-tale scent lingered which was why I chose to partake outside in the first place. The ledge framing my bedroom window was little more than a concrete slab, but it was wide enough to sit on, to escape the […]
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Space Unicorns! We’re seeking to fill the Assistant Editor position with Uncanny Magazine, and we STRONGLY encourage BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) folks to apply! The position will begin in August 2022, and will run for six issues/a year with possibility for renewal. There is a modest stipend for this position. We’re looking for someone […]
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This is one of those hard news/good news posts, Space Unicorns. The hard news is that after four years, Managing and Poetry Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu has decided to move on from her Uncanny editorial duties at the end of 2022. We can’t overstate how important Chimie has been to Uncanny. She started with us as […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker won the Best Short Story Nebula Award!!! Congratulations to Sarah and to all of the finalists! Once again, congratulations to the other four Uncanny Magazine stories that were finalists: “The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou for Best Novella, “Colors of the […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark and “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte are Sturgeon Memorial Award finalists! Congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark, José Pablo Iriarte, and all of the finalists! Press release below: LAWRENCE, KS – 13 May, 2022 for immediate release This year’s finalists for […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark is a Best […]
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She is light. Until she is not, and the lighthouse goes dark as the waves crash against the cliffside, the rocks at its foot jutting and jagged, a peril to even the most skilled navigators’ ships. “Fuck me,” I swear at the sudden black spot in my vision. The lighthouse, which burned so bright not […]
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Inside the stasis gel, I awaken to Mother’s incoherent ravings corrupting my circuits; heart detonating in exponential elevation. My lungs fight to expel the thick gel and I shouldn’t be able to gain consciousness before the rising solar radiation levels announcing morning trigger the gel’s breakdown process. As my body convulses—leftover organics labouring at the […]
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As a millennial, what was I to do when I got COVID but announce it on the internet? I was miserably ill with the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus. I ran the typical fever, had the characteristic fatigue and the long cough. I had not been so sick in decades. I felt the sapping […]
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It’s a wet and cold spring as we write this in Central Illinois. We are falling asleep most nights to the rumble of our sump pumps, which hopefully will keep our house from sinking. These are anxious times, but overall the Thomases remain well. Caitlin has dodged hospitalizations for a full year (knocks on wood), […]
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Content Note: Threat of Sexual Assault, Casual Violence “Ooh, let me show you the pictures.” Bayzoth the demon scrolls through his cell phone and holds it out with pride, raising his voice over the noise of the party. “She was the runt of the litter—only two heads—but she’s just the sweetest floof.” “Awwww,” Asphos […]
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she saved her money to buy a thirty-minute trip back in time to visit the diner where she could watch her grandpa young with a head full of hair working behind the counter as she ate a piece of his maple apple pie with coffee the piece she ordered to-go traveled fifty years ahead […]
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“It’s that it’s not historically accurate.” The sudden popularity of this criticism just so happens to coincide with the rise of diversity in popular media. It was raised for the latest installment of the God of War franchise, which dared to portray a Black Angrboda, and for Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, as it stars […]
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You don’t know who we are, but we promise you we are harmless, and we made this village for you. Well, for you and for us, and for all the others that might follow. Each of us built their own little house. Some are made from hard candy, with gingerbread window frames and a door […]
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Welcome to Episode 46A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 46A you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home” by C.L. Clark, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “In Stock Images of the […]
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Haralambi Markov is a Bulgarian fiction writer, reviewer, & editor with a background in content creation, who currently works as a freelance writer. He was the first ever Bulgarian to be accepted to attend the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 2014. His work has appeared in Tor.com, Evil in Technicolor, Weird Fiction Review, Stories for Chip, […]
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One of the most common pieces of wisdom I hear directed at new writers is that You Must—oh, You MUST—Learn To Take Criticism Well. Intoning this solemnly seems to protect its proponents from ever having to articulate what that process would look like. Where is the middle path between placid accommodation and knee-jerk spite? What […]
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I don’t want flying cars. I want my language back. I want to glass-bottom boat my way to a dirt road with no street signs, squeeze myself on the grave of my restlessness, my atomic self-esteem. Five hundred years and we have finished. What have burned sugar and dyed cotton blighted? I […]
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Coming May 3, the 46th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on June 7. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! Two Uncanny Magazine stories, a poem, and two essays are 2022 Ignyte Award finalists! “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim is a finalist for a Best Novelette Ignyte Award, “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark is a finalist for a Best Short Story Ignyte Award, “POST MASSACRE PSYCHE […]
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Uncanny Magazine is currently seeking to add more Submissions Editors (often called slush readers). Uncanny is an online magazine that publishes Science Fiction and Fantasy and pays $.10 per word for new fiction. Our submission guidelines are here. We will ask Submissions Editors to select unique and provocative, diverse, well-written stories from our unsolicited submissions for the […]
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Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! The 2022 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, and “Eighteen Days of Barbareek” by Rati Mehrotra is a finalist for the Best Short Story Aurora Award! Congratulations to Rati and to all of the phenomenal finalists! From the Aurora Awards website: This ballot is for works originally done in 2021 by Canadians. The […]
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PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! SIX Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Hugo Award! “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim is a finalist for Best Novelette, “That Story Isn’t the Story ” by John Wiswell is a finalist for Best Novelette, “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde is a finalist for Best Novelette, “The Sin of America” […]
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After I came in from the thorns and the princess wept sight back into my scarred eyes, we were married. The chapel was full of people but I cared only for the doves that coasted from rafter to rafter, and as we approached the altar and the organ music faded, my eyes—unused to seeing—drifted closed, […]
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I run out of ways to keep you urgent in my mouth, stomach your shouting relic. so, when grief comes for an unburial unearthing you into the forgotten, I stuff you under my tongue. how I’ve learnt to carry you across borders, across turnpikes & racial diss. across the panting roadblocks, where we exist […]
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“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.” ―C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters “I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.” ―Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War A letter is a time capsule. A […]
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The doll was dead. There was nothing for it. Bear had seen bad cases before: legs ripped off, heads torn from necks, hair rudely shorn. Dolls mutilated by ink, fire, even—once—the lawn mower. Not every child loved their toys gently. That was life. This was murder. He wondered if the little girl knew yet. It […]
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When time was reborn, Sol asked, “Where am I?” “You’re in the idea,” said Sol. Now that time existed again, Sol could take a moment before replying. “Which idea?” “Yours.” Sol tried to swallow, except they were no longer equipped with any sort of apparatus for swallowing. And the idea of swallowing, divorced from actual […]
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Welcome to Episode 45B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 45B you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart” by Carlos Hernandez, as read by Matt Peters Short Story: “Requiem for a Dollface” by Margaret Dunlap, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “A Wreckful […]
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We are reaching for each other. There is so much space between us, and yet still we are always reaching for each other, even if we’ll never quite manage to bridge the gap between our fingertips. We are reaching, although we are very tired. We are reaching as best we can. Do you have a […]
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Mountain pebble gripped in her beak, Jingwei flies over forest and field mile after mile after mile, she flies over rice farmers, over foresters over river fishermen who spot her shadow flying below them across a shadow sky over mouse and rat, hare and shrew, their thousand small and busy lives […]
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Toby steals a look up-trail, decides they’re probably never getting to the top of this mountain. Not because it’s that long a hike—four hours if they didn’t stop?—but because Cin, evidently, is some kind of nature nut. Not that he doesn’t like camping and fishing and all of it himself. He’s out every weekend he […]
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Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize. She’s grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Loft Literary Center, […]
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Outstanding news, Space Unicorns! FIVE Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America! “The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou is a finalist for Best Novella, “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim is a finalist for Best Novelette, “That […]
The night before first snow in Zutphen the bathroom glass is piebald with frostbreath and djinns and this month you don’t trust electricity so I kneel in the tub to dredge the blood from between my thighs until my knuckles no longer trail burnt cherries and bicycle rust down the shower curtain I asked your […]
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“what is grief, if not love persevering?”— Vision in a village, a woman on a boat tosses her net into a lake & hopes to fish her drowned kids from its yawning mouth. the dark garment in the sky is without sparkles, a halved moon hovers, & nothing but owls eat the silence. in Bini, […]
Welcome to Episode 45A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 45A you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Goldfish Man” by Maureen McHugh, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Irreconcilable Differences” by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Maureen McHugh This podcast […]
Growing up as a tomboy in a socially conservative town meant constantly being told that my existence was wrong. Girls don’t play video games. Girls can’t get the high score on the math test. Girls don’t like science fiction. Alongside these flat denials of reality came prescriptions for behavior. Girls shouldn’t argue. Girls shouldn’t want […]
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay The ongoing pandemic has weathered its own internal seasons; microclimates and trends that could only have happened […]
It wasn’t the first time I’d found the stranger in the red coat somewhere no one was supposed to be, but it was certainly the first time I’d found the stranger somewhere it should’ve been physically impossible to enter. The attic had been locked for over a year. When I found the key and opened […]
Hello, Space Unicorns! This month, the fabulous Liz Argall created a special comic for the editorial, featuring Hugo the Cat! FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! FIFTEEN Uncanny Magazine stories are on the prestigious 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO THRILLED! Congratulations to all of the authors! Best Novella: “The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia […]
The town had become a city, but a gentle one, and there were places to hide if you knew where to find them. Leah had lived in San Francisco, and in New Orleans. Those were not gentle places and she had not done gentle things. Going home was not the right way to disappear, but […]
Miyuki Jane Pinckard is a writer, game designer, educator, and the co-founder of Story Kitchen Studio, a community for exploring writing techniques. Her fiction can be found in Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, and the anthology, If There’s Anyone Left, Vol. 1. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and now lives in Venice, California, with […]
Questions for this advice column were provided by Kickstarter Backers who selected the Ask A Unicorn reward during our 2021 Kickstarter campaign. How did you know you were a Unicorn? First I was myself, and myself only, wild and alone. The wind was in my nostrils and mud on my hide. Then the human […]
No matter the culture, the one defining trait that is agreed upon for the nefarious vampire is drinking blood. Vampires in modern literature are romanticized outcasts, beautiful and untouchable…as long as they fit Eurocentric ideals of beauty. More often than not, this means fair skin, noble Eurocentric features, colored eyes that aren’t brown, and a […]
I live in my car. It’s both worse and better than you’d expect. It’s an old Subaru hatchback so I can put the back seat down and sleep. I have all my stuff in the back but I have a space where I can lay. The place where I park is, like, the unofficial place […]
“T, wake up.” Anna? Terumi reaches across the empty bed seeking Anna’s warm presence. The voice again, unmistakably clear. “I’m sorry I’m missing our anniversary. It is our anniversary, right?” Baxter the terrier, nestled against her legs, jerks to alertness. The old basset hound Ringo pushes the bedroom door open with his nose. Both dogs […]
Outstanding news, Space Unicorns! Five Uncanny Magazine poems are nominees for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award for speculative poetry! L. X. Beckett’s “What The Time Travellers Stole,” Mary Soon Lee’s “Confessions of a Spaceport AI” and Abu Bakr Sadiq’s “POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION” are all nominees for Best Short Poem. Theodora […]
Coming March 1, the 45th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on April 5. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
Space Unicorns! It is time to announce the TOP STORY in our Uncanny Magazine 2021 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! It is…. drumroll A TIE!!! The TOP SHORT STORIES are: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker “The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente Congratulations, Sarah Pinsker and Catherynne M. Valente! SNAZZY CERTIFICATES will soon […]
FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! FIFTEEN Uncanny Magazine stories are on the prestigious 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO THRILLED! Congratulations to all of the authors! Best Novella: “The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Best Novelette: “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde “That Story Isn’t […]
Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison are the same person. She has published more than fifty short stories, seven solo novels, and four collaborations with her friend Elizabeth Bear. Her most recent novel is The Witness for the Dead (Tor Books, 2021). The Goblin Emperor (Tor, 2014) won the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel […]
(Content Note: Attempted Child Death, Abuse, Self-mutilation) When the doctors tugged me from Ma I gripped on so tight with all my hundred hands that I left little handprints all over the umbilical cord. I grasped before I gasped. And then I was crying because they had to peel my fingers away, one by […]
After the legend of 牛郎织女 It begins, perhaps unavoidably, with my mother’s anger. She caught me at happiness, you see. Unsanctioned. (I do not talk about my father. You cannot talk about a forest until you have emerged from the trees.) I met a boy. My mother told him, as she stripped […]
- The Sapphire Sword, its luster dimmed. In another world, you held the Sword aloft and it blazed blue in your hand. It made you feel a hero, even on the days you hacked and stabbed and felt anything but. Yet now you have saved that world, you have returned through the portal, you have […]
Welcome to Episode 44B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 44B you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “Lily, the Immortal” by Kylie Lee Baker, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Weaver Girl Dream” by Lisabelle Tay, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Kylie Lee Baker […]
what does it mean to be born of the dead? This question hangs in the margins on pg 42 of my copy of The Deep: A gorgeous novella by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes that delves into the mythologized history of the wajinru who are merfolk, born of Black enslaved womn […]
cracks always long to grow. asphalt craves other than the horizontal. you could become a poem. straight line caesuraed into a mouth. a ruin. a fucking statement. you were meant for so much more than conveyance or convenience. were primordial ooze once. could have kissed the ozone layer. made microplastic and endured millennia. were paved […]
The Star Wars prequel trilogy was not very good. [citation not needed] You’ve probably heard a lot of explanations for this famous artistic failure: pompous writing; wooden acting; over-reliance on then-cutting-edge CGI which delivered on spectacle but fell apart on realism; George Lucas literally divorcing the only editor who could bring his scattered Sunday-serial narrative […]
That fall, the Parrington Museum’s Henry T. Meadows Scholar was a man named Claudius Winterson, of whom my colleagues had nothing good to say. Dutifully, I attended his public lecture, where I sat well to the back and asked no questions, although several occurred to me. I had not intended—duty or no duty—to go to […]
In Lily’s last vlog, she says she’s not scared of dying. I know it’s a lie because her gaze drifts off camera and she blinks three times, like there’s something in her eyes. Lily was always a bad liar, but I am a very good editor, so her six-point-five million loyal subscribers never have to […]
Hello, Space Unicorns! Nominating for the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry is open! If you’re a SFPA member, you can nominate short and long poetry up until February 15 for the 2022 Rhysling Award. Uncanny Magazine’s eligible poems from 2021 are: Short Poem (0–49 lines; for prose poems, 0–499 words): Kalevala, an Untelling by […]
Hello, Space Unicorns! 2021 was another tough year. Though many things were hard and horrible, we are very, very proud of all of the amazing works we published in Uncanny Magazine. Everyone in the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps has been wonderfully supportive, and your enthusiasm has meant so much to us. It’s been fantastic to see […]
Welcome to Episode 44A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 44A you will hear: Publishers’ Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Night Dance” by Leah Cypess, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “The House Snakes” by Sonya Taaffe, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Leah Cypess […]
for Nyani Martin You knew our strength, we were the maze’s clew coiling in your goddess’ fists, the sidewinding horns of the bull tossing dancers through copper-blue infinity. Son of serpent-footed kings, he should have twined his wrists with yours, not left them for the wild grape and the ivy to lasso into immortality, […]
On a Thursday night in Harvestmonth, when the moon rises round and bronze as a new betrothal promise watch, is the warlike thrice-veiled Mother of Mákhesthaines, crowned in her black silk mantles embroidered with skulls, permitted across the Holy Square and into the Grand Cathedral of Saint Ignace Battiste. All other times is she anathema. […]
They told us we were princesses, and we believed them. At least, I believed them. I think most of the others did, too. Except Kenna, perhaps; she had her suspicions. But Kenna was suspicious of everything, always. It made her tiring to talk to. To be fair, we did live in a castle. And we […]
One thing I’ve learned over the years is the importance of judging works for what they are rather than what they aren’t. As a writer, it can be tempting to break a work open, re-contextualize it, and imagine it as something more fulfilling for myself than what it really was. Midnight Mass carried me down […]
Cyberpunk is dead. It’s been 37 years since Neuromancer was published, making the genre officially a geriatric millennial. Its aesthetics are used up. Its critique tired. Its literary power petering out like a fritzing cybernetic arm tossed in the automated dumpster beneath a blinking neon hologram. At least that’s what people say. But I’d like […]
It was one of those rare nights when the smog thinned out enough for stars to be visible in the sky above the penguin enclosure. Gwin adjusted her synthetic feathers with her beak, arranging them neatly and plucking out any that were broken or bent. She didn’t want to groom, but her programming said it […]
Welcome to the first Uncanny Magazine issue of 2022! It’s a blustery day in Central Illinois. Lynne is having Zoom meetings in the Doctor Who room, Caitlin is listening to her audio book, and Hugo the Cat is buried in a comforter and hoping for a mild winter. It’s hard to believe that as we write this, […]
“I am not an intellectual, I write with my body.” —Clarice Lispector In all the fiction and nonfiction that I read, I am searching for the body. In fiction, I want to know how a character feels; how they churn and bleed, how they laugh from deep in the belly or cry their crocodile […]
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Monday’s lover tugs at Jan’s ribbon with his teeth. Jan doesn’t yell at the lover to stop. The guy just received bad news from the front—a friend lost to a bomb, perhaps, a sibling blown to bits; Jan doesn’t ask. He tells the lover, instead, to be careful: We don’t want my head rolling off […]
Christopher Caldwell is a queer Black American living in Glasgow, Scotland with his partner Alice. He was the 2007 recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship to Clarion West. His work has appeared in FIYAH, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, and Strange Horizons. “The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste” is his fourth story […]
I am haunted by her neoprene suit, the swell of undulations while the ocean kelps. In New Mexico I balked at white sun, my fleshy calves trembling when the puppeteer said, It’s either me or the seven seas. I crashed like a breaking […]
Coming January 4, the 44th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on February 1. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]
Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher won the 2021 Best Short Story Hugo Award! Congratulations to Ursula and to all of the finalists! Once again, congratulations to the other three Uncanny Magazine stories that were finalists: “Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt […]
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors is the first climate-fiction contest from Fix, Grist’s solutions lab. Imagine 2200 asked writers to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. Fix Network Weaver Tory Stephens caught up with two of the contest finalists, Ada M. Patterson and Tehnuka, to talk about how fiction can […]
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Greer Gilman’s spellbinding debut, Moonwise. The Crawford Award-winning novel follows Ariane on the trail of her girlhood friend, Sylvie, who has disappeared into a world curiously like the one the two friends invented together. The sequel, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales, digs deeper into Gilman’s complex mythos, […]