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The Mourning Robot

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2025/09/02

They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland. We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken bones, hands over our eyes, aluminum sheets over our hearts. They […] The post The Mourning Robot appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Whale Fall of Yours

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2025/09/02

Notebooks, Conchas, y Un Café con Leche Those are the items that make up your world the day the girl with the side buzz and brown bomber jacket says to you, in the back of a crowded cafetería, “Explícame pues—¿Qué sabes acerca del concepto de la dilatación del tiempo?” The year is 2084, and this […] The post Whale Fall of Yours appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

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2025/09/02

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 Yänntzi, Sabrina, Bouncy Paw, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn Bonanno, Danielle […] The post Thank You, Patreon Supporters! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Dream Journals

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2025/09/02

Recently I’ve become obsessed with the eerie, sideways space between dreaming and waking. Those moments that make me feel less like a linearly assembled person. Probably there’s a technical term for this. Perhaps you’ve experienced it, too. Here’s an example. I had a dream that I rubbed my eye so hard, it fell out and […] The post Dream Journals appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Cat Physics, Deconstruction, and the Shape of Love

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2025/09/02

When cats fall from a great height, they twist their bodies, searching to reorient themselves, using their tails to rotate their bodies to an upright position before bracing for impact. This requires a geometrical equation cats know innately and put into practice within the span of two seconds before they land on their paws, give […] The post Cat Physics, Deconstruction, and the Shape of Love appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Dreamscape with the Devil

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

A street from childhood empties like a cigar cut incorrectly. All of the curtains in the windows, still, preflinched for the hands that will throw them aside in morning light. I slink down into the driver’s seat of a stolen car—red leather, […] The post Dreamscape with the Devil appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Marginalia” Won the 2025...

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2025/08/31

Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal won the 2025 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Mary Robinette! Once again, congratulations all of the finalists, including Uncanny Magazine Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim for her story “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” from Lightspeed Magazine. […]The post Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Marginalia” Won the 2025 Eugie Award! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine and Nghi Vo’s “Stitched to Skin Like...

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2025/08/17

PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! “Stitched to Skin like Family Is” by Nghi Vo won the Best Short Story Hugo Award! Congratulations to Nghi! Even more wonderful news! Uncanny Magazine (Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) won the Hugo Award for […]The post Uncanny Magazine and Nghi Vo’s “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” Won Hugo Awards! appeared

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Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors...

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2025/08/07

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 Editor-in-Chief to […] The post Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again! appeared first

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Interview: Daniel H. Wilson

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2025/08/05

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, The Clockwork Dynasty, and The Andromeda Evolution (an authorized sequel to Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain). He earned a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as masters degrees in machine learning and […] The post Interview: Daniel H. Wilson appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Garden

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2025/08/05

Most mornings, the woman sits in her garden. Most mornings, I sit on my roof. In this way, looking down over the tall stone walls of her courtyard, I can see her grey head bent over her grey hands. She’s a wealthy woman—you can tell from her flowers alone, they’re so healthy, their petals lush […] The post The Garden appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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What’s a Novel Idea? What’s a Short Story Idea? I...

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2025/08/05

How can you tell if a particular story idea is more suitable for a short story or a novel? People ask me this all the time, and I used to have a pretty good answer. I used to say that a short story feels like something that’s confined to a particular moment or set of […] The post What’s a Novel Idea? What’s a Short Story Idea? I Used to Know the Difference appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Whalesong

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2025/08/05

Look, I didn’t set out to try to sabotage my mother. I mean, technically my mother. Doctor Naomi Wallace, Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Jane Goodall of whales. Queen of the aqua-mentary. Ruler of the field of undersea ethnomusicology. She’s the kind of mother who casts a hell […] The post Whalesong appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Wishbone

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/05

We made do with what we had on the land that was given to us. The land, gorged with sand & dusty murals. How people lived was quite simple. Holograms sold things at the market. Money was no longer the exchange unit of commodities as the crude method of trade by barter was refined. In […] The post Wishbone appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures

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2025/08/05

At the start of Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation, the young, gifted mathematician Gaal Dornick arrives on Trantor to accept an appointment at Streeling University. The conditions of his employment contract are not disclosed to readers, but it is relatively clear that this is what would later be labelled a standard employment relationship; Dornick will not […] The post Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Terrarium

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2025/08/05

Freddie Brightwood1 bends to peer at the swarm of moths fluttering in the terrarium, their powdery wings beating against the glass. He glances around to be sure he’s alone, no footmen lurking in the corners of the solarium or guests hiding behind plants, feeling self-conscious. And then he hums under his breath and makes a […] The post The Terrarium appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Seaside Prophets

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2025/08/05

The ocean swells under her windowsill / its waters lick at the house’s seams & squeeze / through the gap under the front door / rain kamikazes down from the skies / like a father’s fists might. / Waterlogged books grow thicker by the day / knickknacks drift about like flotsam / spiders sail on […] The post Seaside Prophets appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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“Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine Won...

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2025/07/20

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! The 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards winners have been announced, and “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine won the Best Short Fiction Shirley Jackson Award! Congratulations to Arkady, and to all of the phenomenal finalists and winners! From the website: Boston, MA (July 19, 2025) — In recognition of the legacy of Shirley […] The post “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine Won the Shirley Jackson Award! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Finer than Silk, Brighter than Snow

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2025/07/01

For Leanna Renee Hieber, a choker jewel Once upon a time, so long ago that streams ran thick with silver, and the sun shone in rays of molten gold, an old woman squatted on the green, flower-choked bank of the Sarasvati River and scrubbed fancy clothes for patrons far more fortunate than she. How […]The post Finer than Silk, Brighter than Snow appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Diner at the Intersection of Duty and Despair

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/07/01

The crystal cliff loomed over Justin. It glinted like a giant chunk of clear, flawless diamond under the harsh winter sun. An ever-shifting rock field lay behind him. Every few seconds, except on the trail he had just blazed, dust coalesced into rock, and boulders disintegrated into dust. Through the cliff, Justin saw the static […] The post The Diner at the Intersection of Duty and Despair appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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