by Sheree Renée Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
Night All night long, the weary sound of water dripped from the roof into the bucket below, eroding her dreams. Ava woke from a sleep which bore her like an ocean, her mind still filled with the raindrop drum. The moon had veiled its face so that the stars could not see her cry. She […]
by Shveta Thakrar in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
For Anna-Marie McLemore, a true lantern heart June in Buffalo was Komal’s favorite time, particularly early June after twilight. The gloaming, she’d read once, a fancy word for the mysterious time when day merged with night. That was when the fireflies came out. Late one such evening when she was thirteen, she sneaked downstairs, […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degrees out. Ah, it’s SPRING in Illinois! A year ago, the Thomases […]
by Elsa Sjunneson in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
When we’re little, we are told that imagination has no bounds, that we are unlimited in what we can come up with. Every television show relies upon the suspension of disbelief that children are gifted with, and that suspension of disbelief is eroded or beaten out of us as we age. Every children’s book allows […]
by Ada Palmer and Jo Walton in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
“Speculative Resistance”—a term coined by Malka Older—posits that one great power speculative fiction wields is that exploring other worlds and ways societies could work encourages people to question extant systems, to imagine alternatives, to hope, to act, and to reject the old hope-ending “because that’s the way it is.” The author Ursula K. Le Guin […]
by C. J. Linton in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
I learned about Transformers from my sister in sixth grade. Her English class had watched part of the first live-action movie, and she identified, correctly, that I would love it. I remember sitting across from her at the kitchen table and demanding for the umpteenth time she describe each robot again: what they looked like, […]
