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Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character...

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2025/03/04

Content Note: Child suicide On a hot summer night, Natsumi asks you to rob a 7-11 with her. You’re just a few blocks from Ebaramachi Station, the sound of the approaching local train not as loud as the chime of the convenience store’s opening doors. You glance up at the pimply college student behind […] The post Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character Interactions and Mixed Reality Storytelling appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Wen-yi Lee

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2025/03/04

Wen-yi Lee likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts. She is the author of historical fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly and YA horror The Dark We Know, and has also published speculative fiction and essays in venues like Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Reactor, and various anthologies. A University College London alum, she is currently based […] The post Interview: Wen-yi Lee appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows...

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2025/03/04

Doom is a lot like Lord of the Rings, which is a lot like Superman. You don’t have to admit you loved Doom. In fact, you can pretend you never even heard of this videogame about a floating gun that shoots as many demons as the player can find. It was so popular that the […] The post Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 63A

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2025/03/04

Welcome to Episode 63A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 63A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Story: “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills, as read by Erika Ensign Story: “Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson, as read by Erika […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 63A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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the bud of a dead dream

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2025/03/04

you dream with one eye open in fear that they might be stolen by your mother and sold in the market because she said dreams are worthless, they cannot fill bellies, only empty ambitions […] The post the bud of a dead dream appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Butterfly Pavilion

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/03/04

There are so many: yellow and silver and black, morphos whose wings are a demure moth-brown on one side and iridescent blue on the other, like princesses in disguise. The children follow them around the pavilion on their little tottering feet. “Too hot,” we say to one another at intervals throughout the day, looking up […] The post Butterfly Pavilion appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End...

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2025/03/04

1. There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are forced to abandon our home, but one of the neighbors has a spare raft we can […] The post 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

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2025/03/04

We are not writing this editorial from Lurie Children’s Hospital as we did so many times in the past. We are in our living room, listening to a David Bowie album and feeling the void where Caitlin should be. We miss her greatly every single day. In 2017, America changed for the worse, and we […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 63 Cover and Table of Contents!

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2025/02/24

Coming March 4, the 63rd issue of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy 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 1. Don’t forget eBook […]The post Uncanny Magazine Issue 63 Cover and Table of Contents! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll...

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2025/02/24

Space Unicorns! It is time to announce the TOP STORY in our Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! It is…. *drumroll* The short story “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal!! Congratulations to Mary Robinette! A SNAZZY CERTIFICATE will soon be on the way! The rest of the Top Five are: 2- The novelette “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker! 3- […] The post Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll Results! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Kaiju Agonistes

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2025/01/07

Content note: Historical racism and misogyny [Time Reference Unavailable]—August, 1946 The watchseed is planted in a watery hemisphere of a watery world. The place spins around a yellow star, wearing its magnetic field like a proud little hat. It’s ridiculous with life. Hence, a watchseed, with the best of intentions. Let’s give the seed-planters […]The post Kaiju Agonistes appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/01/07

While the Museum of the Lost and Found has an abundance of beautiful, thought-provoking pieces best viewed over multiple visits, we understand that your visit today must be brief. We have therefore created a personalized guide for your visit, based on the hesitance of your touch on the door and the waver in your smile. […] The post Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

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2025/01/07

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, 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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Six People to Revise You

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2025/01/07

A parent or guardian Someone who has known you since childhood A mentor or teacher An employer or coworker A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend Someone who does not consider themself a loved one RED The form is one page long. No back. Just a front. It should be longer. There are six […] The post Six People to Revise You appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 62A

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/01/07

Welcome to Episode 62A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 62A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Story: “Six People to Revise” You by J.R. Dawson, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Care for Lightning” by Mari Ness, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews J.R. […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 62A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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For Whom the Hair Grows

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/01/07

It’s verging on dawn when you arrive at the bottom of the endless braid. The air is crisp, cold. The dark locks sway gently in the breeze. The braid stretches upwards in a long, unbroken line. Far above you, it vanishes into a shroud of mist. The tower rises up from what once was a […] The post For Whom the Hair Grows appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

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2025/01/07

We’ve been mulling this editorial in our heads repeatedly since the American elections in November. What the fuck should we say? Please understand, we’re still smothered in grief. Are we functional? Yes. But it takes all of our energy to push through each day, each week, since the light of our lives dimmed and went […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Hugo Awards

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2025/01/07

The Hugos are hugely important for me personally. I have been aware of them since I was a teenager, back in the 1980s. I have been following them closely since the start of this century. I went to my first Worldcon in 2005, in Glasgow, where David Langford won his eighteenth award for Best Fan […] The post The Hugo Awards appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Scott Lynch

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2025/01/07

Scott Lynch was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1978, the first of three brothers. Early in life he worked as a dishwasher, a waiter, a graphic designer, an office manager, a cook, and a game supplement self-publisher before accidentally selling his first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, in 2004. From 2005 to 2016 Scott […] The post Interview: Scott Lynch appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Homes to Remember and Forget

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/01/07

In science, fantasy, and horror, there is an increasing number of works that explore the idea of a home and what that might encompass, how it has changed over time, and how it has become something not always comforting and safe nor desirable but one that has been manipulated and twisted. The concept of a […] The post Homes to Remember and Forget appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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