JAMES BOND OPENING! The Thomases leap rooftop to rooftop, dodging bullets from evil spies! Explosions! Fireballs! Look at Lynne’s roundhouse kicks! Michael deflects a bullet with his electromagnetic watch! Caitlin fires two missiles from her wheelchair! A NARROW ESCAPE FOR THE THOMASES, AS THEY SKI OFF OF AN ILLINOIS MOUNTAIN WITH SPACE UNICORN LOGO PARACHUTES! […]
The sun streams through leafless branches in our Urbana neighborhood as I write the first editorial for 2018. The brisk wind hurtles across the plains, but we are safe and cozy inside our new house, listening to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings funking up a soul Christmas party, mostly happy in the glow of the […]
Well, Space Unicorns, this is goodbye. It’s been a wonderful couple of years of discovering beautiful poems, reprinting favorite stories, and making wonderful connections with authors, readers, and colleagues, but the time has come for me to take off my Space Unicorn Ranger uniform and sign off from the glittercom. Of course I can’t just […]
I love beginnings. I’m writing this editorial on Oregon Street in Urbana, Illinois, in our new house (but in the same squishy leather chair where I wrote my last editorial). This is the street where my journey in publishing began. A few blocks west is a nearly unchanged Espresso Royale coffeehouse. Twenty-five years ago, you […]
I hate endings. I’m writing this in the same chair I’ve written the previous 17 “Uncanny Valleys.” It’s a squishy leather chair in the corner of the living room in our house, The Milford. The Milford is a Sears Catalog House—a kit that came to DeKalb on a train and was pieced together in 1938. […]
Hey… THIS EDITORIAL IS LAVA! QUICK, JUMP ON SOMETHING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE! We are writing this in an undisclosed location in the woods of the Upper Midwest, surrounded by friends and magic. This is a brief pause to reenergize. As many of you know by now, Lynne has Big Awesome Secret News, and soon […]
Okay, normally we would have some sort of opening to the editorial before the news, but there is no way we are burying this lede (even if you’ve seen this story a million times already). Two Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Hugo Award! “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander is a finalist for Best […]
(Editors’ Note: Because Michael was procrastinating about writing this issue’s editorial, he decided to ask Twitter to do it. This section is The Uncanny Magazine Exquisite Corpse Editorial. The Exquisite Corpse was an old Surrealist game where you build off of what the previous person created, but you never see the whole. In this case, […]
It is 2017. All of you know what happened to the world in November. So… Does art matter anymore? We’re usually playful in this editorial. After the American elections, though, it’s hard to be whimsical about much of anything. The question we led this editorial with went around social media in the days right after […]
Is it that time of year again? Is there a crispness in the air? Are decorations going up around your town? Are you hearing joyful songs of the season? That’s right! IT’S TIME TO BEGIN A NEW YEAR OF UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Is there really a more magical time of year? So sing an Uncanny carol! […]