Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-One

Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-One! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on November 5, 2024. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on November 5 and half on December 3.

Featuring all-new short fiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky, William Alexander, Sonya Taaffe, Lauren Beukes, Marissa Lingen, Naomi Day, and Angel Leal; nonfiction by Vivian Shaw, Tania Chen, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Jennings; poetry by Brandon O’Brien, Sneha Mohidekar, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Katherine James; interviews with William Alexander and Marissa Lingen by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Julie Dillon’s Queen of Seven Kingdoms as the cover.

All that plus two podcasts!

Episode 61A (November 5): Editors’ Introduction; “Woodmask” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, as read by Erika Ensign; “Anansi Braids Your Stepson’s Hair” by Brandon O’Brien, as read by Matt Peters; and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Episode 61B (December 3): Editors’ Introduction; “The Geckomancer’s Lament” by Lauren Beukes, as read by Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo with sound designer Em Edwards; “We Tried Beating Time to Death” by Abu Bakr Sadiq, as read by Matt Peters; and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Lauren Beukes.

About Our Cover Artist: Julie Dillon

artist photo of Julie DillonJulie Dillon is a Hugo Award-winning artist living in California. She has had a life-long love of fantasy and sci-fi art and literature, and is excited to be making her own contribution to the field. Over the years, she has worked on book covers, magazine illustrations, gaming illustrations, and a variety of other commissions, and she is currently working on branching out into creating more of her own work. Her website is juliedillonart.com and you can follow her on Twitter.

 

 

In The Issue