by Beth Cato in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Eight
This is my 207th time returning to March 9, 1980, but the 35th time I have broken into my childhood home. Before I started using my homemade time machine, I had never been one to defy rules. Back at age seven, I stole a candy bar from a grocery store. Anvil-heavy guilt compelled me to […]
by Rati Mehrotra in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Eight
Content Note: Child Abuse and Assault Lila found the cat market when she was seven. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say the cat market found her. It was the night of the Harvest Moon, and the maize and the soybean were almost in. The villagers had gathered around a crackling fire, the […]
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by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Eight
This was a rough month for the Thomases. After quite a few careful visits with friends and loved ones, Michael’s luck finally ran out, and he came down with COVID. Thanks to vaccines, boosters, and medicine, it was a mild case, and he managed not to pass it to Lynne & Caitlin. It did mean […]
by Meg Elison in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Eight
“I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.” — George R. R. Martin “It was funny, she thought, that people treated her flesh like a public resource, a reservoir […]
by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Eight
It is a common conception that people come to fiction, especially the speculative, to escape reality. And that is indeed one of the purposes it can serve. Another is that conversely to escaping, people come to fiction to encounter or experience reality. A paradox? After all, we already live in reality, one that is ubiquitous. […]
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by Premee Mohamed in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Eight
My debut novel was signed in 2018 and came out in March 2020—straight into the maw of Ye Pestilence, the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 global epidemic. Since then, I’ve had five more books come out (only some of which existed at deal time) and several more contracted, which I will have to figure out how to write. […]
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Our Love Against Us by DaVaun Sanders
The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain by Natalia Theodoridou
Towered by Tansy Rayner Roberts
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As One Listens to the Rain by Andrea Chapela, translated by Emma Törzs
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Radcliffe Hall by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
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The Portal Keeper by Lavie Tidhar
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On the Plantation of Daughters by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
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The Construct’s Co-Emergence by Linda D. Addison
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Interview: Rati Mehrotra by Caroline M. Yoachim
Interview: Miyuki Jane Pinckard by Caroline M. Yoachim
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