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Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Cover and Table of Contents!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/10/27

Coming November 4, the 67th 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 December 2. Don’t forget eBook […]The post Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Cover and Table of Contents! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Brooklyn Beijing

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

When Beijing appeared on the other side of the East River, you turned off your phone. Your friends had hoped for Paris, or Rome, or Santorini, so in the soft fog of their collective disappointment you knew you would be afraid to voice how you really felt, which was that never before had the neighboring […]The post <strike>Brooklyn</strike> Beijing appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

I’m composing this editorial on the couch in my Champaign house as the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter enters its final hour. (It is still open for Late Pledges if you missed it!) I’m playing Disney theme park music as Hugo the Cat stares at squirrels outside the window and listens […] The post The <i>Uncanny</i> Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Lure of Stone

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

They saw the men when they were close to reaching Elmesak; they rode two by two and all six of them were decked in crimson. Yalxi set the bedroll and the pack with their supplies down by the side of the road. She leaned on a gnarled walking stick, then drank from a hollowed gourd. […] The post The Lure of Stone appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Year 11 Kickstarter Backers!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us during our Year 11 Kickstarter. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Sarah Bassett, Shervyn, David Fiander, Jessica Eleri Jones, Adam L, Jenelle Clark, Joe Dicker, Ben Jacobson, J. Arneaud, Frances Rowat, Sean Johnson, terry gene, Mikaela Irish, Charles and […] The post Thank You, Year 11 Kickstarter Backers! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Caravan

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

The highway cut across the landscape like an old wound, a raised, scarred line on a scale we could not understand and therefore simply lived with. We could not climb the walls that held it up, could not reach the road or the caravan that roared along it for days at a time, clanking and […] The post The Caravan appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of The Bewitching, The Seventh Veil of Salome, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Mexican Gothic, and many other books. She has won the Locus, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. “The Lure of Stone” is her second appearance in Uncanny, a beautifully crafted novella of gemstones and sorcery, set in […] The post Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Mourning Robot

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland. We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken bones, hands over our eyes, aluminum sheets over our hearts. They […] The post The Mourning Robot appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Whale Fall of Yours

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

Notebooks, Conchas, y Un Café con Leche Those are the items that make up your world the day the girl with the side buzz and brown bomber jacket says to you, in the back of a crowded cafetería, “Explícame pues—¿Qué sabes acerca del concepto de la dilatación del tiempo?” The year is 2084, and this […] The post Whale Fall of Yours appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

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, Bouncy Paw, 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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Dream Journals

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

Recently I’ve become obsessed with the eerie, sideways space between dreaming and waking. Those moments that make me feel less like a linearly assembled person. Probably there’s a technical term for this. Perhaps you’ve experienced it, too. Here’s an example. I had a dream that I rubbed my eye so hard, it fell out and […] The post Dream Journals appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Cat Physics, Deconstruction, and the Shape of Love

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

When cats fall from a great height, they twist their bodies, searching to reorient themselves, using their tails to rotate their bodies to an upright position before bracing for impact. This requires a geometrical equation cats know innately and put into practice within the span of two seconds before they land on their paws, give […] The post Cat Physics, Deconstruction, and the Shape of Love appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Dreamscape with the Devil

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/09/02

A street from childhood empties like a cigar cut incorrectly. All of the curtains in the windows, still, preflinched for the hands that will throw them aside in morning light. I slink down into the driver’s seat of a stolen car—red leather, […] The post Dreamscape with the Devil appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Marginalia” Won the 2025...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/31

Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal won the 2025 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Mary Robinette! Once again, congratulations all of the finalists, including Uncanny Magazine Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim for her story “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” from Lightspeed Magazine. […]The post Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Marginalia” Won the 2025 Eugie Award! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine and Nghi Vo’s “Stitched to Skin Like...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/17

PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! “Stitched to Skin like Family Is” by Nghi Vo won the Best Short Story Hugo Award! Congratulations to Nghi! Even more wonderful news! Uncanny Magazine (Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) won the Hugo Award for […]The post Uncanny Magazine and Nghi Vo’s “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” Won Hugo Awards! appeared

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Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/07

Uncanny Magazine is currently seeking to add more Submissions Editors (often called slush readers). Uncanny is an online magazine that publishes Science Fiction and Fantasy and pays $.10 per word for new fiction. Our submission guidelines are here. We will ask Submissions Editors to select unique and provocative, diverse, well-written stories from our unsolicited submissions for the Editor-in-Chief to […] The post Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again! appeared first

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Interview: Daniel H. Wilson

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/05

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, The Clockwork Dynasty, and The Andromeda Evolution (an authorized sequel to Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain). He earned a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as masters degrees in machine learning and […] The post Interview: Daniel H. Wilson appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Garden

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/05

Most mornings, the woman sits in her garden. Most mornings, I sit on my roof. In this way, looking down over the tall stone walls of her courtyard, I can see her grey head bent over her grey hands. She’s a wealthy woman—you can tell from her flowers alone, they’re so healthy, their petals lush […] The post The Garden appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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What’s a Novel Idea? What’s a Short Story Idea? I...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/05

How can you tell if a particular story idea is more suitable for a short story or a novel? People ask me this all the time, and I used to have a pretty good answer. I used to say that a short story feels like something that’s confined to a particular moment or set of […] The post What’s a Novel Idea? What’s a Short Story Idea? I Used to Know the Difference appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Whalesong

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/08/05

Look, I didn’t set out to try to sabotage my mother. I mean, technically my mother. Doctor Naomi Wallace, Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Jane Goodall of whales. Queen of the aqua-mentary. Ruler of the field of undersea ethnomusicology. She’s the kind of mother who casts a hell […] The post Whalesong appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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