by AnaMaria Curtis in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-One
Yilien likes the masks. She likes that her meaning cannot be misconstrued, that when she dons Politeness no one can accuse her of overcaution or indecisiveness, the way her parents did in her childhood. When she has the right mask, she doesn’t have to speak. When Mirnai shows up in her walled garden half an […]
by Ai Jiang in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-One
Since Mother’s death, a changeling was all I could be. Father said so before he himself passed, “A real child, a real daughter, our daughter, would never cause death, would never bring death upon this family.” Mother named me Yangguang—sunlight. But Father changed it to Yinying—shadow—for robbing his love of her light. But she told […]
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by Meg Elison in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-One
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.—Orson Welles In 1826, Mary Shelley published one of the first dystopian novels on the great misfortune of being the last man on earth. Having lost the people closest […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-One
These editorials get harder and harder to write. Once again, we’re composing this in a hospital room at Lurie Children’s Hospital. We’ve been in the hospital off and on for 70 of the last 196 days. Caitlin’s current week involved a surgery followed by a two-hour seizure in recovery, a massive infection, a trip to […]
by Jeffe Kennedy in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-One
In fantasy fiction, there are many forces that have led to the knee-jerk assumption that women in non-tech or magical worlds are powerless. Some of this comes from our perception of human history. The defense of medieval-style fantasy as being “just how it was” falls apart quickly upon analysis of how that history has been […]
by C. L. Polk in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-One
Nothing anyone has to say about TikTok is new. I have been grumbling about this for years, about each platform in its own time. But I didn’t get it together until I read Cat Valente’s Substack post: “Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things,” a polemic on the way social media is used […]
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