by P. Djèlí Clark in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy-One
Content note: suicidal ideation I am a star, falling. “Awake now?” My eyes open to words as an unknown face greets me, small with a curious gaze. She parts full lips to bare teeth and I tense. A threat? No. A smile. I stare back. “I didn’t think you’d ever awaken,” the girl says. […]
by Tia Tashiro in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy-One
Kate was cursed by her cousin on his deathbed to never stay. She and her cousin Bo didn’t hate each other—far from it. They’d grown up together: same small farming town in the inland northwest, population 394. So small that when Bo finished high school, he and his classmates each got a lamppost of their […]
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by Ryka Aoki in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy-One
In his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing considers a simple question: “Can machines think?”1 However, Turing begins his actual answer not with machines, but with something called “The Imitation Game.” It is basically a texting game in which two players, a man and a woman, chat with a third “interrogator” of unspecified gender. […]
by Lizbeth Myles in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy-One
One of the joys of Doctor Who is when decades after first broadcast, a story’s themes are suddenly painfully relevant again, and you can marvel at the timelessness of the world’s greatest Science Fiction television series. An even greater joy is when a story over half a century old suddenly acquires a whole new thematic […]
by Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy-One
Nobody would call a yearly referendum about whether or not your business should exist a stress-free process. Every year since 2014, I’ve prepped and coordinated and hoped for the best as I pressed the launch button on another Kickstarter. The current plan is to click it again on July 13, 2026, and launch the Uncanny […]
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