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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 56B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

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 This podcast was produced […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 56B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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fowlskin

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

for the Doctors of Carterhaugh, Brittany Warman and Sara Cleto I have danced in my day. I have danced. red ribbons in my hair, at my throat. spat my ring in his soup, pearl and gold. stole a ring from his tower. it broke. spat up toads. spat up roses. bells, too. and horse […] The post fowlskin appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

The women of Dejima Island could never pinpoint when their dreams began to change, but they knew it had something to do with the tradesmen’s tales. The foreigners who arrived at the docks were hard men, chiseled by salt and wind and all the horrors of two hundred days at sea. Their shouts and curses […] The post The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Natalia Theodoridou

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

Natalia Theodoridou has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, in magazines such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightmare, and F&SF, among others. He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction and has been a finalist for the Nebula Award in the Novelette and Game Writing categories. Natalia holds a PhD […] The post Interview: Natalia Theodoridou appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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A Novel Is an Empathy Engine

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

When I unleash a book onto the world, I imagine it as a fiction-fueled thresher, reaping hearts and leaving a trail of those who laughed, cried, and were changed in its wake. This might seem like a fantasy unto itself, but this metaphor is based not in my own wildest dreams, but in science. A […] The post A Novel Is an Empathy Engine appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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La mandíbula del río

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

Moths tap their legs on her window, thumps belonging to beings beyond her cabin’s walls telling her they’ve arrived. She sits bedside, elbows on her knees, back hunched over, her spine poking through the hotel’s bathrobe. Brown and black wings with yellowed eyes open and close as if hundreds of spectators were clinging to glass, […] The post La mandíbula del río appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Dance Dance Matrix Revolutions

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

In a small glass cabinet at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, there are three red transistors. On June 21, 1948, these transistors were part of the first programmable electronic computing device, nicknamed “Baby.” Much like the invention of the spinning jenny in that same city almost two centuries prior, it’s difficult to […] The post Dance Dance <i>Matrix</i> Revolutions appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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An Elegy of Soil

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

I stir. It feels like the opening and closing of a mouth, the sigh of an underground cave. The girls with pierced hearts whisper to the mountain. They desire to keep it calm. I hear them, still. They don’t remember why they whisper, why they desire. But it remembers. It recalls the stench of the […] The post An Elegy of Soil appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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genesis

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/06

—for Nyxïa permit me to start again— to etch my verses on the moon –stones circling the crown on your head— to open the medallion of my soul […] The post genesis appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Eleven Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2023 Locus...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/02/01

FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! ELEVEN Uncanny Magazine stories are on the prestigious 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO THRILLED! Congratulations to all of the authors! Best Novelette: “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou “SuperMAX” […] The post Eleven Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2023

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Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2023!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/15

Hello, Space Unicorns! 2023 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 […] The post Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2023! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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A Recipe for Hope and Honeycake

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

Ingredients: Bramblewilde’s honey was famous, not just in their own village, but in every village their village traded with. It was warm and sweet as late summer sunlight, and some said the smallest taste would cause you to forget all your cares and woes. Others said too large a taste would lead you to forget […] The post A Recipe for Hope and Honeycake appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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We Drink Lava

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

We, the rebirthed gods, drink their past, we drink their anger, and we feel the ashes scrape against our lips, the heat boiling our skin, snaking its way in and its rough texture, cooling against our icy tongues, crystalizing the past deep, deep within us. And for those of us rushing to gulp down the […] The post We Drink Lava appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Marginalia

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

Margery crouched in front of the fireplace, skirts tucked back to avoid the flames, and raked coals out onto the hearth. She’d pushed the shutters open this morning to let a breeze but even at this hour sweat beaded on her brow and stuck her chemise to her skin. Their gray tabby cat jumped up […] The post Marginalia appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

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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Lest We Become Possessed

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

Out There Screaming presents a multifaceted and inclusive approach to horror “…he who has been treated as the devil recognizes the devil when they meet.” —James Baldwin In his book-length essay, “The Devil Finds Work,” James Baldwin explains why he finds the horror presented in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist so underwhelming. He felt that the […] The post Lest We Become Possessed appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Scalzi on Film: When Fun Becomes Homework

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

The Marvels, the sequel to Captain Marvel, has come and gone in the theaters, and with it, a whole number of questions have been raised. The first film was tremendously successful ($1.13 billion in worldwide grosses), but four years later the second film struggled to break $200 million across the globe. It’s the lowest-grossing Marvel […] The post Scalzi on Film: When Fun Becomes Homework appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Six of Swords Becomes The Emperor

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

Tell me you’ve bolted the door, the one inside your heart, tell me, you’ve abandoned the ghost you once loved, let love you, haunted and haunting, until your mouth was all cobweb and ash, broken spells unraveling before you could fix them, runes wrecked before they gathered full power— […] The post Six of Swords Becomes The Emperor appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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A Contract of Ink and Skin

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

The earliest versions included uglier things: ground up insect eggs and corroded bronze, but the ink you receive is pure, made only from blood of the Cursed. They inject it into your eyes first because that’s the easiest way to tell you’re different. The black ink mixed with blue and red, a purplish nebula pooling […] The post A Contract of Ink and Skin appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/01/02

It’s a new year, Space Unicorns! We very much hope your 2024 is amazing and wonderful in every way. Sadly, though, we’re once again writing this from Lurie Children’s Hospital. Our daughter, Caitlin, is here with an aspiration pneumonia. Her palliative care has ups and downs, and today is definitely down. For the Thomases, 2024 […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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