More great Uncanny Magazine award news from MidAmeriCon 2! Tran Nguyen’s Uncanny Magazine Issue 4 cover, Traveling to a Distant Day, won the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Magazine! This is in addition to it already winning the Spectrum 23 Award- Editorial Category! Congratulations, Tran!
Oh, Space Unicorns. We have so much glorious news to share. We’ll talk about the Kickstarter in our next post (EVERY STRETCH GOAL REACHED), but first… UNCANNY MAGAZINE WON A HUGO AWARD FOR BEST SEMIPROZINE!!! And “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) WON A HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELETTE! We are so honored. […]
(Guest Post by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.) My Hugo nomination has brought a sudden burst of media interest in China. Some have asked me how my life will be changed; I want to tell them there will be no change at all. The nominated story, “Folding Beijing,” was published two years ago in […]
SPACE UNICORNS! UNCANNY MAGAZINE‘S LYNNE M. AND MICHAEL DAMIAN THOMAS, AMAL EL-MOHTAR’S “POCKETS,” AND SAM J. MILLER’S “THE HEAT OF US: NOTES TOWARD AN ORAL HISTORY” ARE ALL WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS! This is such an amazing and unexpected honor. A huge thanks to all of the World Fantasy Convention members and the World Fantasy […]
Coming July 5, THE ELEVENTH ISSUE OF UNCANNY MAGAZINE!!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on August 2. Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available from Weightless […]
(Editors’ Note: This guest post was written by Tansy Rayner Roberts for our Kickstarter Backer Alison Moore. Thanks, Alison!) I’ve been listening to the brand new audio adventures of the Tenth Doctor and Donna from Big Finish Productions, and thinking a lot about why Donna is still one of my all time favourite Doctor Who companions. […]
For those interested in some of what we ate at Uncanny Cabin II: Flourless Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies West African Peanut Soup
In 2015, Uncanny Magazine ran a Kickstarter to fund their second year of publication. I’d supported them in 2014 and attended their writing retreat, Uncanny Cabin. So when I saw the same reward posted in 2015, I was all over that like a beagle at a buffet table. I’m sorry, it was too awesome the […]
As you may remember, one of the stretch goals for the Uncanny Magazine Year Two Kickstarter was a new webcomic feature. Each issue, the multi-talented Liz Argall will have a special Uncanny edition of her webcomic Things Without Arms and Without Legs where they react to a piece in the current issue of Uncanny Magazine. This […]
(Guest Post by Kat Howard) What I write doesn’t ever emerge from a vacuum. I write because I want to say something, because I want to continue a conversation, because something has made me think or feel, and art is the best way I know to communicate those things. Sometimes the influences are more specific […]