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Six Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2024 Locus...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/01

Great news, Space Unicorns! Six Uncanny Magazine stories are on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List! Congratulations to all of the authors! Best Novelette: “A Stranger Knocks” by Tananarive Due “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Best Short Story: “Happily Ever After Comes Round” by Sarah Rees Brennan “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine “Stitched […] The post Six Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2024 Locus

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Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2024!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/01/27

Hello, Space Unicorns! 2024 was another extremely tough year. Though many things were hard and horrible, we are very, very proud of all of the amazing works we published in Uncanny Magazine. Everyone in the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps has been wonderfully supportive, and your enthusiasm has meant so much to us. It’s been fantastic to […] The post Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2024! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine 2024 Poetry Eligibility

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/12

Space Unicorns! This year, poetry is eligible for both the Rhysling Award and the Hugo Award. Here is a list of all of the poetry published by Uncanny Magazine in 2024 and the appropriate Rhysling Award category! Short Poem (11–49 lines) Six of Swords Becomes The Emperor by Ali Trotta We Drink Lava by Ai Jiang genesis by Sodïq Oyèkànmí […]The post Uncanny Magazine 2024 Poetry Eligibility appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Romantasy All Along!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

One of the big publishing questions of 2024 has been What Is Romantasy? It’s a hot new marketing tag, thanks to TikTok and a rising excitement about books featuring swords and kissing. “Romantasy” sells books, and we do love a magical word that sells books. But with a magical word that sells books comes great […]The post Romantasy All Along! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 61B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

Welcome to Episode 61B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 61B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Erika Ensign, and Steven Schapansky Short Story: “The Geckomancer’s Lament” by Lauren Beukes, as read by Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo with sound designer Em Edwards Poem: “We Tried Beating Time to Death” by Abu […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 61B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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We Tried Beating Time to Death

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

it is i / who throws the first punch / into the face of the effigy we built / in the shape of an hourglass the others / stand in line / waiting to see / where i am going with this […] The post We Tried Beating Time to Death appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Them: The Scare Uses...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

Let me start by admitting that I did not watch season one of Them. Entitled Them: Covenant, it was a source of much controversy among critics and viewers. Many felt the series relied too heavily on racial trauma for its scares and that the show was exploitative of Black pain and suffering. This is connected […] The post Can’t We All Just Get Along? <i>Them: The Scare</i> Uses Afro-Surrealism to Produce Effective Scares appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Marissa Lingen

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

Marissa Lingen is among the top science fiction and fantasy writers in the world who were named after fruit. She has many opinions on Moomintrolls. She has been known to cross international borders in search of rare tisanes. Her personal relationships with bodies of water are intense though eccentric. She lives atop the oldest bedrock […] The post Interview: Marissa Lingen appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Operetta

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

OPERETTA { I attended the operetta with this prince. We reclined in a curtained alcove, I in my tunic of tonics, he in his burgundy dressing gown. On stage, the evening unfolded in a series of months, years, until all resolved in […] The post Operetta appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Geckomancer’s Lament

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

We crackle and crunch through the forest, tracking gore through the red and silver leaves of this wretched forest so far from home: the centaur, the nyanga, Oberon, and me. And Tchakalaktsa, of course. My love. My life. Skink of my heart. Or what’s left of her…in spirit, in the glass vial that bounces comfortingly […] The post The Geckomancer’s Lament appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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On the Water Its Crystal Teeth

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

I first found the boy down by the lake one autumn just as it was starting to turn cold. There were still a few leaves on the trees, but he looked up at me to show me a particularly brilliant scarlet one he’d found. His eyes were the deepest brown of the waters. His back […] The post On the Water Its Crystal Teeth appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Ancestor Heart

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

They named the boy Malik before they placed the burning heart in his chest. His father hoped the strong name would ward off that which trailed this heart; his mother knew better than to assume a single frail word could change generations of history. Still, the men rolled the sound across their tongues as they […] The post Ancestor Heart appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine 2024 Award Eligibility

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/07

It’s the time of year when people post their year-in-reviews to remind voters what they might have missed, and (especially for the Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards) in which categories those stories are eligible for the different SF/F awards. Last year was the tenth full year of Uncanny Magazine (Issue 56 through Issue 61). We are extremely proud […]The post Uncanny Magazine 2024 Award Eligibility appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Longlegs, Long Held Memories

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Childhood memories are funny things. For some people they are clear, crystalised moments, which they come back to; others have blocked most of them out while they try to sift through the trauma. There is no definite pattern for how we remember things or why we remember them either, but they are part of us, […] The post <i>Longlegs</i>, Long Held Memories appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: William Alexander

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

As a small child, William Alexander honestly believed that his Cuban family came from the lost island of Atlantis. Now he writes unrealisms for young readers. His work has won the National Book Award, the Eleanor Cameron Award, the Librarian Favorites Award, and two CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year Awards. Sunward, his first […] The post Interview: William Alexander appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Null Path Catalog

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

after Kaveh Akbar Rhododendra grow through stone and imperia grow through the lighthouse foghorns knocking on condense night. The moon governs gestural intent into running tar. Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow: uncorked, decanted, to breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark, or out […] The post Null Path Catalog appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Twice Every Day Returning

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Cruzaste Mares na aventura da pesca da baleia, nessas viagens para a América de onde às vezes os navios não voltam mais. —Jorge Barbosa, “Irmão” Long after his whaling days were over, Abraão Vieira dreamed of ice. Not the blocks still shipped in sawdust from the cross-cut ponds of New England to the melting tables […] The post Twice Every Day Returning appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Breathtaking Condescension Tango

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Every year or so an article gets published in a mainstream magazine with some variant on “this hitherto unexplored phenomenon of Fan Fiction”—always two words, always capitalized—which covers the exact same ground, and has no idea that in its profound redundancy it itself is technically a kind of transformative work. Because these articles all follow […] The post The Breathtaking Condescension Tango appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Anansi Braids Your Stepson’s Hair

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

On the verandah you can hear them both laugh like something bright and restless is in their diaphragms. The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster-princes, of handsome boys eager to not miss this day of school they said they were too sick […] The post Anansi Braids Your Stepson’s Hair appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Woodmask

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/11/05

Content note: child abuse They said the grove was there before the city. Before people. They said, before the first houses that would, eventually, grow into the city of Ilmar, everything at the foot of the mountains had been forest. But, even when it had all been forest, the grove had been there, just […] The post Woodmask appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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