by Rachael K. Jones in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two
1. Your unicorn first finds you when you run away from home. You had planned to live forever in the woods. You packed all the necessities: three cans of baked beans, a packet of butter crackers, your insulin, a water bottle, your clarinet, your marching band shirt. You drew yourself a map on the endpaper […]
by Eugenia Triantafyllou in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two
I don’t realize how far apart I have grown from my mother until, upon meeting her again, I have to force myself to hug her. When I heard the news, I packed a few things from my personnel apartment at the Omega hospital and booked a ticket on the next train to Tafros. It took […]
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by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two
Outside is moist. Miserable and moist. The Uncanny Thomases love many things about Central Illinois, but humid August with its heat and storms is not one of them. As we huddle in the A/C with Hugo the Cat, the world continues to be frightening. The pandemic rages on. Global news is discouraging. We have plans, […]
by Elsa Sjunneson in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two
I have been working in genre magazines since roughly 2014. It’s been one hell of a run, and I’m done now. This is my last issue at Uncanny Magazine, and it feels a bit like the end of an era. I’m not going to be editing short fiction, or short non-fic- tion, anymore. I’ll be […]
by Ada Palmer in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two
(with thanks to Jo Walton for innumerable examples) One metric of human progress, which fantasy and science fiction have done much to advance, is the expansion over time of our empathy sphere. By this I mean the range of beings that we consider coequally a person with ourselves, deserving of the same rights, dignities, […]
by Shiv Ramdas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two
This is a game essay story test quest. You stand where few have dared to tread. You are looking up and before you, in the distance, on the other side of the tunnel you are about to enter, you see the famed Pillars of Genre, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror.1 And just behind them, an empty […]
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