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“The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer Won the...

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2024/08/11

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 […] The post “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer Won the Best Novelette Hugo Award!!! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: AnaMaria Curtis

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2024/08/06

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 […]The post Interview: AnaMaria Curtis appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 59B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/08/06

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 […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 59B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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syzygy

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/08/06

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 […] The post syzygy appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Scalzi on Film: Hollywood Totally Lied to Us About...

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2024/08/06

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 […] The post Scalzi on Film: Hollywood Totally Lied to Us About AI: Why Cinematic Cyborgs Are So Much Smarter Than What We Have in the Real World appeared

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Something Small Enough to Ask For

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2024/08/06

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 […] The post Something Small Enough to Ask For appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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In Another World of Living

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2024/08/06

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 […] The post In Another World of Living appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/08/06

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 […] The post Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Zarghána

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2024/08/06

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. […] The post Zarghána appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That We Shall...

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2024/08/06

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 […] The post It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That We Shall Return Once Again to the Regency appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Naomi Kritzer’s and R.S.A Garcia’s Stories Are 2024...

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2024/07/02

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 […]The post Naomi Kritzer’s and R.S.A Garcia’s Stories Are 2024 Eugie Award Finalists! appeared first on

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Thank You, Year 10 Kickstarter Backers!

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2024/07/02

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 […] The post Thank You, Year 10 Kickstarter Backers! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Greg van Eekhout

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2024/07/02

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 […] The post Interview: Greg van Eekhout appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Across the Street

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/07/02

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 […] The post Across the Street appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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In Dreams, I Cannot Read or Hope

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2024/07/02

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 […] The post In Dreams, I Cannot Read or Hope appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Southern Gothic: Shadows, Superstition, and the...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/07/02

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. […] The post Southern Gothic: Shadows, Superstition, and the Supernatural appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

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2024/07/02

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 […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Midnight Spa

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/07/02

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 […] The post The Midnight Spa appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Book Clubs with My Imaginary Friends

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/07/02

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 […] The post Book Clubs with My Imaginary Friends appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/07/02

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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