cover for Issue 63 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Galen Dara titled "Blessed Universe." The central figure wears purple and silver priestly robes with a bright sun-like circle in the center of their chest. Splashes of dark purple criss-cross across the robes. They have their hands outstretched palm up, a glowing spot on each emits white vapor-like smoke. The figure appears to have dark purple tears streaming from their eyes flowing down their chin and neck. Their hair appears as a dark purple halo with planet-like spheres within, and more vapors trail upwards. They stand in front of a portal-like arch of silver, and in the background purple splashes resemble gas clouds, light purple circles resemble planets, and bright light pinpoints with white trails resemble stars. The words "March/April 2025" and "Issue Sixty-Three" are at top. The list of credits is on the bottom
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Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Three

Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Three! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on March 4, 2025. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on March 4 and half on April 1.

Featuring all-new short fiction by Samantha Mills, G. Willow Wilson, Wen-yi Lee, Charlie Jane Anders, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Stephanie Malia Morris, Kirsty Logan, and J.L. Akagi; nonfiction by John Wiswell, Angela Liu, Amanda-Rae Prescott, and J.R. Dawson; poetry by Rafiat Lamidi, Ai Jiang, Abdulrazaq Salihu, and Lesley Hart Gunn; interviews with Wen-yi Lee and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Galen Dara‘s Blessed Universe as the cover.

All that plus two podcasts!

Episode 63A (March 4): Editors’ Introduction; “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills, as read by Erika Ensign; “Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson, as read by Erika Ensign; “The Birds” by Rafiat Lamidi, as read by Matt Peters; and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Samantha Mills.

Episode 63B (April 1): Editors’ Introduction; “The Island with the Animals” by Stephanie Malia Morris, as read by Matt Peters; “Time loop for the day I die.” by Abdulrazaq Salihu, as read by Matt Peters; and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Stephanie Malia Morris.

About Our Cover Artist: Galen Dara

photo of Galen DaraGalen Dara’s accomplishments include a Hugo Award win for Best Fan Artist in 2013, a historic nomination for Best Professional Artist in 2014, and multiple Hugo, Chesley, and Locus Award nominations. In 2016, she won the prestigious World Fantasy Award. She is regularly an invited presenter at speculative fiction conventions, and her work is often included in exhibitions and publications dedicated to science fiction and fantasy.  Her clients include Tor Books, DAW Publishing, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Subterranean Press, Wizards of the Coast, Scientific American, Uncanny Magazine, and Lightspeed Magazine. Dara is regarded as one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction art.

 

In The Issue

More Fiction

10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by Samantha Mills

Butterfly Pavilion by G. Willow Wilson

Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down by Wen-yi Lee

Infinite Halves by J.L. Akagi

The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster) by Charlie Jane Anders

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends by Eugenia Triantafyllou

The Island with the Animals by Stephanie Malia Morris

Unbury by Kirsty Logan

Poetry

the bud of a dead dream by Ai Jiang

The Birds by Rafiat Lamidi

Red-Coded and Weary by Lesley Hart Gunn

Time loop for the day I die. by Abdulrazaq Salihu

Editorials

The Uncanny Valley by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Essays

Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality by John Wiswell

Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character Interactions and Mixed Reality Storytelling by Angela Liu

Thank You, Patreon Supporters! by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned about Worldbuilding from Imagineers by J.R. Dawson

Ncuti to the Moon Take Two: Reflecting on the Fifteenth Doctor’s First Season by Amanda-Rae Prescott

Interviews

Interview: Wen-yi Lee by Caroline M. Yoachim

Interview: Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim