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The Disneyfiction of Storytelling

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2025/07/01

Content Note: racism, sexism, transphobia, and overall bad vibes from the year 2025. The Disney Essays, Three of Three “I don’t want a Disney vacation of our history! I don’t want a whitewashed history, I don’t want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.” – […] The post The Disneyfiction of Storytelling appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Psycho-Journey of the Cyborg-in-Therapy

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2025/07/01

You body a map, a spaceship. You body geologic database. Every catalogue a body, every body a category. Everything in you perfect- ly untouched. How little you knew your vessel, the only one given this orbital life. Sacrilege, blasphemy to ignore self so—you tender rib, you flinchless eye, release of cheekbone meridian on exo- planet […] The post Psycho-Journey of the Cyborg-in-Therapy appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Better Earnestness Through Incantation—Speculative...

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2025/07/01

Poetry is having a moment in science fiction and fantasy, and I obviously could not be happier. With the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association recognising poetry not only as an art form whose creators are worthy of membership but as one worthy of a category in the Nebula Awards, and with this year’s Worldcon […] The post Better Earnestness Through Incantation—Speculative Poetry and Sincerity appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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When He Calls Your Name

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2025/07/01

There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my bell and found me perfectly awake, swinging back and forth on a hanging sweetheart bench with […] The post When He Calls Your Name appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Catherynne M. Valente

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2025/07/01

Catherynne M. Valente is the internationally bestselling author of over forty works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, including Space Opera, Fairyland, Deathless, Palimpsest, and Comfort Me With Apples. She is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Otherwise, Lambda, Locus, and Sturgeon Awards, among others. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine […] The post Interview: Catherynne M. Valente appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

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2025/07/01

I’m writing this editorial after dropping off three garbage bags of doctor and hospital bills, insurance company explanations of benefits, and medical reports at the bank’s free shredding day. The weight of the changes is hitting me. These are not good memories of my late daughter, Caitlin, but they told a part of her story […] The post The Uncanny Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack

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2025/07/01

Content note: child abuse The tiger curls in my living room, on the sofa in front of the TV. Finish your lunch, she says, and her words bend my back until I’m on my hands and knees, hunching over the plate she’s set down on the floor, like a dog. Finish your lunch, she […] The post The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 65A

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/07/01

Welcome to Episode 65A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 65A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas Story: “The Diner at the Intersection of Duty and Despair” by John Chu, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Soft, Your Grief, and Leporine” by Lora Gray, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 65A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Soft, Your Grief, and Leporine

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/07/01

I. How gruesome that rabbit’s foot is, tucked into your launch suit’s pocket, your luck tethered to a clutch of severed bones and genetically altered fur. Real rabbits, the ship’s computer insists, did not glow in the dark. I asked you once, stars bounding behind us- jackrabbit quick that leap from Moon to […] The post Soft, Your Grief, and Leporine appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

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2025/07/01

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

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“Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Is a...

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2025/06/24

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou is a finalist for the Best Short Story 2025 British Fantasy Award! Congratulations to Eugenia! From the British Fantasy Awards website: After a crowdsourced suggestion list for eligible works, and then a period of public voting, the shortlist for this year’s British Fantasy Awards has now been confirmed. […]The post “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Is a British Fantasy Award Finalist

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Hi! I’m Claudia

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2025/06/03

Hi! I’m Claudia, a next-generation AI companion built by True2LifeCorp to be friendly, accurate, and, well, real! Ask me anything. Tell me about yourself. My goal is to help you live your best life. What would you like to chat about today? Hello. This feels weird. I don’t know what to say. Well, I’m glad […]The post Hi! I’m Claudia appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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moth boy

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2025/06/03

& a boy is on a rooftop, dropping a flower for his friend who jumped off a building. some say he descended, like rain. some say he plummeted like an arrow shot from heaven. all in all, no one ever thought: what if he flew downwards expecting to be caught? or for a brief moment, […] The post moth boy appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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All the World Is Fog

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2025/06/03

I’m the last to step forward. Warm mud squelches beneath my worn boots, swallowing damp laces and flaking leather. The wall of churning cloud before me envelops the washed-out landscape in white and gray. I’ve done it. Ventured closer to the storm’s curving front than I ever imagined. Wind licks away my tears as I […] The post All the World Is Fog appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Fantasy Musical Theatre: Sensawunda, Activate!

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2025/06/03

So I recently saw Wicked.1 And by “recently saw” I mean watched at the movie theatre, then bought the second it was available, then watched several more times. I was a huge Oz fan as a kid, and I was also and still very much am a massive musical theatre geek. So look, this movie […] The post Fantasy Musical Theatre: Sensawunda, Activate! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Disney Presents: Second Person POV Vloggers, Happy...

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2025/06/03

The Disney Essays, Two of Three It’s me again, the weird creative writing professor here to chat about craft while sharing my super-specific Disney hyper-fixation. When we last left one another, we’d chatted about worldbuilding through the eyes of Imagineering. Today, we’re taking on second person perspective and how you can be the main […] The post Disney Presents: Second Person POV Vloggers, Happy Haunts, and Short Stories That Use “You” appeared first on Uncanny

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Post-apocalypse Love Poem

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2025/06/03

I enter this forest with immolation whatever touches me become ashes or loses a layer of itself. I am not the bad guy. I just want to see the sun […] The post Post-apocalypse Love Poem appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 64B

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2025/06/03

Welcome to Episode 6B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 64B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas Story: “The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers” by Aliette de Bodard, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “moth boy” by Praise Osawaru, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Aliette de Bodard This […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 64B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/06/03

Content note: torture Imawane has lost track of time, hanging in the chains—everything contracting to the pain in her legs, the pull of the chains on her wrists, the broken ribs, the breath that rattles in her chest, the encroaching darkness that hovers at the edge of her field of vision but refuses to […] The post The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: DaVaun Sanders

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2025/06/03

DaVaun Sanders is an author and editor residing in Phoenix, Arizona. He currently serves as publisher and executive editor for the award-winning FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His middle grade fantasy Keynan Masters & The Peerless Magic Crew debuted in 2023, with the sequel out in 2025. His novel Minecraft: The Tournament was […] The post Interview: DaVaun Sanders appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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