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Interview: Marissa Lingen

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

Marissa Lingen is among the top science fiction and fantasy writers in the world who were named after fruit. She has many opinions on Moomintrolls. She has been known to cross international borders in search of rare tisanes. Her personal relationships with bodies of water are intense though eccentric. She lives atop the oldest bedrock […] The post Interview: Marissa Lingen appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Operetta

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

OPERETTA { I attended the operetta with this prince. We reclined in a curtained alcove, I in my tunic of tonics, he in his burgundy dressing gown. On stage, the evening unfolded in a series of months, years, until all resolved in […] The post Operetta appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Geckomancer’s Lament

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2024/12/03

We crackle and crunch through the forest, tracking gore through the red and silver leaves of this wretched forest so far from home: the centaur, the nyanga, Oberon, and me. And Tchakalaktsa, of course. My love. My life. Skink of my heart. Or what’s left of her…in spirit, in the glass vial that bounces comfortingly […] The post The Geckomancer’s Lament appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Ancestor Heart

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2024/12/03

They named the boy Malik before they placed the burning heart in his chest. His father hoped the strong name would ward off that which trailed this heart; his mother knew better than to assume a single frail word could change generations of history. Still, the men rolled the sound across their tongues as they […] The post Ancestor Heart appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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On the Water Its Crystal Teeth

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

I first found the boy down by the lake one autumn just as it was starting to turn cold. There were still a few leaves on the trees, but he looked up at me to show me a particularly brilliant scarlet one he’d found. His eyes were the deepest brown of the waters. His back […] The post On the Water Its Crystal Teeth appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine 2024 Award Eligibility

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/07

It’s the time of year when people post their year-in-reviews to remind voters what they might have missed, and (especially for the Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards) in which categories those stories are eligible for the different SF/F awards. Last year was the tenth full year of Uncanny Magazine (Issue 56 through Issue 61). We are extremely proud […]The post Uncanny Magazine 2024 Award Eligibility appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Longlegs, Long Held Memories

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Childhood memories are funny things. For some people they are clear, crystalised moments, which they come back to; others have blocked most of them out while they try to sift through the trauma. There is no definite pattern for how we remember things or why we remember them either, but they are part of us, […] The post <i>Longlegs</i>, Long Held Memories appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: William Alexander

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

As a small child, William Alexander honestly believed that his Cuban family came from the lost island of Atlantis. Now he writes unrealisms for young readers. His work has won the National Book Award, the Eleanor Cameron Award, the Librarian Favorites Award, and two CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year Awards. Sunward, his first […] The post Interview: William Alexander appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Null Path Catalog

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

after Kaveh Akbar Rhododendra grow through stone and imperia grow through the lighthouse foghorns knocking on condense night. The moon governs gestural intent into running tar. Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow: uncorked, decanted, to breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark, or out […] The post Null Path Catalog appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Twice Every Day Returning

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Cruzaste Mares na aventura da pesca da baleia, nessas viagens para a América de onde às vezes os navios não voltam mais. —Jorge Barbosa, “Irmão” Long after his whaling days were over, Abraão Vieira dreamed of ice. Not the blocks still shipped in sawdust from the cross-cut ponds of New England to the melting tables […] The post Twice Every Day Returning appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Anansi Braids Your Stepson’s Hair

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

On the verandah you can hear them both laugh like something bright and restless is in their diaphragms. The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster-princes, of handsome boys eager to not miss this day of school they said they were too sick […] The post Anansi Braids Your Stepson’s Hair appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Breathtaking Condescension Tango

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Every year or so an article gets published in a mainstream magazine with some variant on “this hitherto unexplored phenomenon of Fan Fiction”—always two words, always capitalized—which covers the exact same ground, and has no idea that in its profound redundancy it itself is technically a kind of transformative work. Because these articles all follow […] The post The Breathtaking Condescension Tango appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Woodmask

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Content note: child abuse They said the grove was there before the city. Before people. They said, before the first houses that would, eventually, grow into the city of Ilmar, everything at the foot of the mountains had been forest. But, even when it had all been forest, the grove had been there, just […] The post Woodmask appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

The house fills with crisp autumn air as Hugo the Cat snuggles closer for warmth. It’s too quiet in here. Six months without Caitlin means no giggles and smacking the side of her wheelchair. No music or television for her. Just appliance white noise to keep me company as I try to write this editorial. […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

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 […] The post Thank You, Patreon Supporters! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

In my tío’s old room, I’m looking for a book made of water. He used to keep it under his pillow and read from it a story full of storms and men made of seafoam. I noticed that I was never thirsty after he read to me. My stomach felt full, and I usually dreamed […] The post A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Scene 1: The Wedding [ORION stands alone on an otherwise bare stage. He is dressed for a wedding, but the clothes are in a state of disarray. Tie loose, shirt unbuttoned. The overall effect misleadingly implies a walk of shame. There are stains on his sleeves that look like gold paint.] ORION: I met the […] The post The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Witch Recalls Her Craft

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/10/01

I used to write rainfall into existence. With only symbols & blood I could change a tree into a wise man a stone into a laughing child a flame into a companion to warm you under the sheets. Back then, I had […]The post The Witch Recalls Her Craft appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: M. M. Olivas

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/10/01

M. Olivas is an alumna of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and the 2023 Under the Volcano Writers Residency. She received her bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of California Riverside and once worked as an associate editor for Escape Pod magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in several […] The post Interview: M. M. Olivas appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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A Stranger Knocks

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/10/01

1926 Washington, D.C. Shaw District “There’s a man on the front stoop.” The words spilled from her in a much more mundane way than Judy had expected, considering how her neck was fluttering with her excited pulse. Alvin looked up from the new Langston Hughes poetry collection he was reading under the lamp in […] The post A Stranger Knocks appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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