by A.M. Dellamonica in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
“It was like this behind the Iron Curtain.” The woman in the grocery line was wearing a cowboy hat and had the leathery skin of someone who’d spent their entire life in the sun. Smoker skin, Payne’s mother had called it. She always loved finding ways to blame people for their misfortunes. Payne thought about […]
by A. T. Greenblatt in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
I was finishing the last of my nightly coffee when the nineteen-seventies twins approached my table and asked me to bear witness to their disappearance. This was not an unusual request at Cafe Liminalité, being the locale of patrons that dreamed too much and ate too little. I, being its longest and oldest customer, had […]
by Eugenia Triantafyllou in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
There isn’t a more resilient thing than a small flower. Your great-great-grandmother was a yellow daffodil. Where she was born people called her narcissus. Her many heads blossomed from a loamy opening in the forest on a particularly chill spring day. They rose hungrily, searching for a few precious rays of sunlight. Her stems pushed […]
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by John Picacio in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
When I began my career as a science fiction/fantasy/horror artist back in the ‘90s, illustrations on book covers were created by illustrators. Or I should say, by human ones. Even back then, change was coming. It was in the wind. Before that, comics were my first love, my first language. I was a child of […]
by Meg Elison in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
Editors of fiction and nonfiction alike live in a cyclone of recurring themes. We receive pitches and submissions along seasonal and cultural currents; we can always tell when an anthology call made waves or a new magazine made ripples. More than that, we can usually sense which way the wind is blowing for writers and […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
This is Uncanny Magazine Issue 50. Our double-sized, milestone Issue 50. There’s been 100 months of Uncanny Magazine on the Internet. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!?! 😊 We are massively proud of this achievement, Space Unicorns. When we launched our first issue in 2014, we had no idea that we would make it to 50 issues. […]
by Elsa Sjunneson in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
As of the writing of this essay, I have had a cough for five weeks. No one can figure out why. The cough plateaus after medication but does not cease, lingering in my body like a ghost. I am tired of living in a haunted house, and I don’t mean the property that I own. […]
by Annalee Newitz in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
A scandal has fractured the world of medieval historians, and it turns on the meaning of a single word of Medieval Latin. The word is “raptus” and it appears in a batch of late fourteenth century legal documents pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer, famous author of The Canterbury Tales. In late 2022, two scholars announced a […]
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