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Scalzi on Film: The Godzilla Beeper

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2024/04/02

As I was watching Godzilla Minus One, the (terrific) new Japanese reboot and recontextualization of the Godzilla origin story, I found myself thinking of another Godzilla entirely. Not the one in the 1954 original film, or the versions from the many, many films over the years, including the most recent 2014 US version of the monster. […] The post Scalzi on Film: The Godzilla Beeper appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Best-Ever Cosplay of Whistle and Midnight

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2024/04/02

The thirty-third annual convention for the Lefthand Metro Worm Cosplayers Club was, not surprisingly, ruined by drama. Helk, the convention committee chair, was a micromanager, which meant that they weren’t allowing anyone else to do anything. And that meant nothing got done. Including arrangements with the venue they’d been working with for the past twenty […] The post The Best-Ever Cosplay of Whistle and Midnight appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Sea-Witches at Nightfall

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2024/04/02

Clutched in cold hands and freed to blue topographies a sacred transmission pulses as the light lowers a bright chorus metewintoq is heard singing from night’s dark throat— Each moment is a pearl spat from shell gesigawitgl they flow swiftly— into our depths, where we divine the future far from the closed mouth of the […] The post The Sea-Witches at Nightfall appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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In blue sight

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2024/04/02

We ship ourselves in the deep blue sea. Our hands oars, memories the only compass working backwards, downwards, abysswards. We metal our way on the waves, wave ourselves just above the surface. We don’t need to surface to breathe. Breathing rusts our joints, the salt rots our synthetic connections, iodine burns our synapses, touch screens […] The post In blue sight appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí...

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2024/03/31

Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction! Congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark and to all of the finalists! From the BSFA website: The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. The awards are voted […] The post “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark Won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 57A

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2024/03/05

Welcome to Episode 57A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 57A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Story: “The Robot” by Lavie Tidhar, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “pockets full of stones” by Jennifer Mace, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Jennifer Mace This podcast was […]The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 57A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The God, Descendant

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2024/03/05

The Falling God is falling, was falling, will always be falling. That is the constant. The only change is in how they do it: sometimes they allow themself to plunge headfirst, envisioning what it’d be like if they ever reached the ground and their head cracked open, spilling divine golden blood across the—What? Gravel? Pavement? […] The post The God, Descendant appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Stitched to Skin like Family Is

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2024/03/05

My stitches laddered their way up the split seam, in and out one side, across, and then in and out the other. When you pulled the thread through, if you had done the job right, it closed the seam like it had never been torn at all. The salesman kept glancing from me to the […] The post Stitched to Skin like Family Is appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Nghi Vo

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2024/03/05

Nghi Vo became a writer because while there were alternatives, none of them suited her as well as a lifetime of endless research combined with simply making things up. She is the author of Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, and The Singing Hills Cycle, including The Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the […] The post Interview: Nghi Vo appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Robot

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2024/03/05

Year 1 “Got a new one for you,” the mover said. Small man, in neat overalls, wheeling the box on the stacker. That’s what the robot saw when they opened the box and let it out. It stepped cautiously out into sunshine. An unfamiliar city skyline, a boxy whitewashed building in front of him, a […] The post The Robot appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Orcs

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2024/03/05

I can still hear it: the wall of sound in my headphones, the cacophony of competing sound effects, some like the double pam-pam of exploding bombs, some the more occult whizzes and crackles of spell-casting. The press of bodies on my screen has become an indistinguishable mass clustered around a blank flag inside a castle. […] The post Orcs appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

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2024/03/05

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, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn […] The post Thank You, Patreon Supporters! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words

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2024/03/05

A little while ago I was working on the draft of a novel when I came up against a task I’ve never found especially interesting: making up a word to describe a fictional concept. I enjoy higher-level linguistic worldbuilding, but the nitty-gritty of inventing vocabulary is tiresome. The seed of this essay was a simple […] The post Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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pockets full of stones

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2024/03/05

you ask me, lips pressed to vertebrae, about the ocean: does it weep for all those lost at sea; does it remember all it’s taken? the tides have torn a hole in you, I think, and I press the slim bones of your fingers tight against my ribs, and do not say: I dream, sometimes, […] The post pockets full of stones appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Richard Bowes—A Remembrance

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2024/03/05

This is very difficult to write. The fabulous writer Richard Bowes passed away on December 24, 2023. We first met Rick many years ago at a WisCon where we had an amazing lunch full of stories from him about New York City and the different scenes he belonged to through the years. Rick was more […] The post Richard Bowes—A Remembrance appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

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2024/03/05

Editorials are currently very hard to write when your default is usually optimism and joy. Our daughter Caitlin’s palliative care continues. She remains happy, but her health is not improving. Caitlin’s hospital is currently experiencing a cybersecurity attack, which means everything is more complicated without the ability to access her records or call and email […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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AN OPEN LETTER TO CREATURES

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2024/03/05

The Science of Dying Dear creatures, this is how you will leave this world. IHouselights will dim their fluorescence and open their curtains, repeatedly, giving darkness a passage. IIThe air will braid its tentacles into thick black cornrows. IIIThe drums will be ripped, & streetlights will […] The post AN OPEN LETTER TO CREATURES appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Afflictions of the New Age

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2024/03/05

It slips, now—I know it slips. There are men in my parlor, in uniforms, crisp navy, badged. Police. Beyond them Eveline wavers in a yellow nightgown, hands clasped to her chest, eyes wide and worried—no, no, she doesn’t, she’s not here, I’m dreaming her, I’m dreaming. Where is Eveline? Why are these men in my […] The post Afflictions of the New Age appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 57 Cover and Table of Contents!

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2024/02/27

Coming March 5, the 57th issue of the Hugo 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 2. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available […]The post Uncanny Magazine Issue 57 Cover and Table of Contents! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine 2023 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll...

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2024/02/15

Space Unicorns! It is time to announce the TOP STORY in our Uncanny Magazine 2023 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! It is…. *drumroll* The short story “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia! Congratulations to R.S.A. Garcia! A SNAZZY CERTIFICATE will soon be on the way! The rest of the Top Five are: 2- The […] The post Uncanny Magazine 2023 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll Results! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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