by Fran Wilde in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
The Contract A week before the Season began, as Mrs. Vanessa Saunders held brunch court at the Empire Hotel, a photo appeared on her phone: a large oak door beneath a pale green sign with silver lettering. Impossible, she thought, flipping the infernal device over before Mrs. Lillian Talbott and Mrs. Caroline Rankenfall, her Fête […]
by José Pablo Iriarte in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
Paulie rushes out the elevator doors the moment they part, only to skid to a halt at the sight of his father’s wife. She shakes her head, but he doesn’t need the confirmation. If Tricia is out here and not in the hospital room with his father, it can only mean he has passed. He […]
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 E. Lily Yu in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
In the same way that lions do not need to be told about the deliciousness of gazelles, nor sandcastle builders about the sea, for bookish people it goes without saying that libraries, our world’s repositories of knowledge and story, are places of tremendous power, as much as fairy mounds and parliaments. One can enter a […]
by Andrew Liptak in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty
In the annals of science fiction television, plenty of shows stand out as classics. Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek and its spinoffs presented an optimistic vision for the future in the 1960s, Ronald D. Moore’s revival of Battlestar Galactica was a gritty, realistic take on the stresses of genocide and war, while ABC’s Lost helped set […]
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 […]
Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse by Rachel Swirsky
How the Girls Came Home by Eugenia Triantafyllou
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River, Clap Your Hands by Sheree Renée Thomas
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The Hungry Ones by Emma Törzs
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Heart Shine by Shveta Thakrar
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Self Portrait As a Printing Press by Nnadi Samuel
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The Protagonist Problem by Ada Palmer and Jo Walton
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More Than Meets the Eye: Transformers as Trans Fantasy by C. J. Linton
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Interview: José Pablo Iriarte by Caroline M. Yoachim
Interview: Shveta Thakrar by Caroline M. Yoachim
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