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Uncanny Magazine Issue 64 Cover and Table of Contents!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/28

Coming May 6, the 64th 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 June 3. Don’t forget eBook […] The post Uncanny Magazine Issue 64 Cover and Table of Contents! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Time loop for the day I die.

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

At an open bar in Sarkin Pawa the night was flourishing to Burna Boy’s las las. Our bodies were getting drowned in our beers; the bandits have invaded and conquered Sharp-Kona. Some voice drunken in the music tells us to run. something hit a man dancing to the music; […]The post Time loop for the day I die. appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Eugenia Triantafyllou

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has won the Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. She is a graduate of Clarion West writers workshop. You can find her stories in Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, […] The post Interview: Eugenia Triantafyllou appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Unbury

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

Content note: rape and violence against women Part 1: The Dirt Hole & Its Variations Avie Thornaby is digging a hole. Beside him the victrola plays, the vinyl warped, the music woozy. Behind him leans a sign, knocked to a chaotic angle, paint faded so the words “LOST LAKE” are barely visible. It’s dark […] The post Unbury appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Island with the Animals

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

It’s a game, Sage tells Brianna, the island with the animals. She is the third of Brianna’s clients to mention it, but the first to explain. You played as this cosmetic vivisectionist at an island resort. You assisted the resident plastic surgeon. “You get him whatever he needs, dyes and patterns and skin and stuff,” […] The post The Island with the Animals appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Red-Coded and Weary

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

As all good girls in red coats know, it isn’t the threat of going in but coming out of the forest that breeds discomfort. You’re used to finding dead moths in your pockets, mice barrettes clipped to your hair. You’ve wrestled tree roots, chewed darkness like sap, […] The post Red-Coded and Weary appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Ncuti to the Moon Take Two: Reflecting on the...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

I wrote “Ncuti to the Moon” in 2023 before Doctor Who fans had clear information on plot lines or other details on the season. There was so much hope and excitement, especially among Black Whovians who never expected to see someone like them as the Doctor. Now that the 2024 Christmas Special “Joy to the […] The post Ncuti to the Moon Take Two: Reflecting on the Fifteenth Doctor’s First Season appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

The Disney Essays, One of Three My first semester at my MFA program in creative writing, I made the mistake of going to Disney World for the first time. By the end of the semester, this new hyperfixation had become an obsession. I joked that I had studied the Disney parks more than I’d studied […] The post Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned about Worldbuilding from Imagineers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great, #1: The Missing Hill by Titos Pavlou Lefteris_Loves_Fantasy review: 4 STARS 14 November 2013 As always, I’m doing a buddy read with MariaReadsALot because she talked me into it, and boy, was she right! What […] The post The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

1. Jamie has never known what to say to her mother. And now—when it matters most of all, when she’s on a rescue mission—she knows even less. What the hell was she thinking? Somehow Jamie had imagined just marching up to the bright red door of her mother’s tiny house. She’d knock, and then proclaim: […] The post The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from <i>Lessons in Magic and Disaster</i>) appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine’s Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne M....

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/03/28

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine‘s Editor-in-Chief/Co-Publisher Michael Damian Thomas and Co-Publisher Lynne M. Thomas are the Content Editors for the first season of the new podcast It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton! You most certainly know Wil Wheaton from television shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory, and Leverage, and the […]The post Uncanny Magazine’s Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne M. Thomas Are the Content Editors for It’s Storytime

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The Flaming Embusen

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Jero cleared his throat before he continued speaking into the phone. “Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in earnest. The spectators had, indeed, taken the proceedings throughout as a piece of mirthful irony carried to extremes; and had assumed […]The post The Flaming Embusen appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Rati Mehrotra

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2025/02/04

Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the science fantasy novels Markswoman (2018) and Mahimata (2019), published by Harper Voyager, and the YA fantasy novels Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (2022) and Flower and Thorn (2023), published by Wednesday Books. Her short fiction has been short-listed for the Sunburst […] The post Interview: Rati Mehrotra appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Cassandra

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

This poem is dedicated to Ted Chiang. Monday September 23rd, 1991 What is this? A letter I wrote —am writing— for you to find after your brother murders me. Is this a joke? It is not. It’s November 3rd, 2015, and my […] The post Cassandra appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Love Letter in Cobra Pose

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Those I love best are dust of feet, are bone to bone, are rag and gut—and none of this will matter. In fact matter will not matter. I cannot feel physics for void of you. Yes, I am flesh, wound as copper […] The post Love Letter in Cobra Pose appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 62B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Welcome to Episode 62B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 62B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Story: “The Flaming Embusen” by Tade Thompson, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Love Letter in Cobra Pose” by Shankar Narayan, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Tade […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 62B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know about...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

A few weeks ago, I experienced my first true injury caused by swordplay. We’re not counting the various bumps, bruises, and banged-up fingers that come from regular training—those occur so frequently as to become a non-event. Here, I took a hard thrust to the chest that sent me to the ground, the wind knocked out […] The post Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know about Writing Swords appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Accessibility Toolkit for When Things Go Wrong

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Let’s just say this upfront: Accessibility at SF/F events has vastly improved in the last ten years. Even better, open conversations around disability and accommodations are becoming standard and normalized. Making the world fully accessible is hard work. Accessibility can sometimes be resource intensive and complex. Sometimes there can be contradictory needs (example: there’s an […] The post Accessibility Toolkit for When Things Go Wrong appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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With Her Serpent Locks

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Hey cuz! It’s been too long. Love to come out and see your digs. The message hung in the air, glimmering in her Heads Up Display overlaid across the moss garden she was tending. The chill that swept over Euryale made the hair on her arms stand on end and her gut churn. Her cousin […] The post With Her Serpent Locks appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Men with Tails

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

5th July Mid-afternoon tea with Mum in Toronto’s Little India1 to celebrate the publication of her latest poetry chapbook. In between bites of samosa, she said, “I did away with Harry, you know. My first husband.” Spoken in a casual tone, as if talking about the restaurant menu. She sipped her chai, leaving red lipstick […] The post Men with Tails appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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