by Hannah Yang in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy
Before the world ends, Miri’s family saves up enough money to escape to 2004. 2004: a safe haven. The year lilts off the tongue, like a promise. Miri and Lise spend their last evening together in their favorite spot, sitting on the top of the holotower at the edge of town, where they can see […]
by Angela Liu in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy
“Always just. Always magical.” When the four of us first started working as Magical Girls, we penned the slogan in a McDonalds, giggling about how corny it sounded. Annie joked about how we’d still be calling ourselves magical girls when we were eighty, buckling on arthritic knees. “We’ll have to rebrand to ‘Magical Grandmas’.” We […]
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by Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy
This is the second version of this editorial. I vented a lot in the first version about my frustration with the precariousness of publishing. I’d just received some bad magazine news, and the negativity flooded into my typing. This isn’t unusual for anybody right now. It’s difficult to be aware of anything currently going on in the world […]
by Nilah Magruder in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy
Content note: This essay has bugs in it. And lizards, and snakes, and other creeping, crawling things. I can’t help it, because these days I find myself thinking a lot about these little interlopers, and monsters, and immortality, and what is a long life, and in contrast what is a short life, and what […]
by Alex Jennings in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy
The year 2025 saw three major superhero movie releases. Two from Marvel—Thunderbolts/New Avengers and The Fantastic 4: First Steps—and one from DC Comics, the long-awaited Superman reboot. The last time Superman had his own solo film, I was sorely disappointed. Broad swathes of the audience were put off by the 9/11-style destruction visited on Metropolis, […]
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