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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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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 […]
One of the more annoyingly misused phrases in our current era of shared multi-verses, trans-media franchises, and other pan-galactic gargle blasters is “world-building.” It’s an annoying expression because it comes up when someone, who commissions movies, television shows, or whatever filmed entertainment is called in our always-shifting modernity, describes the result of years of work […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about stories lately. Well, I’m always thinking about stories. To be more specific, I’ve been wondering why certain stories find us at particular times, both as writers and readers. Those rare, magical occurrences when you read a novel, or essay, or play, and it is exactly what you needed in […]
The past couple of years, podcasts and forms of audio entertainment have exploded in the media world. According to The Infinite Dial 2022 report from Edison Research, the media industry-wide resource, an estimated 62% of all Americans over 12 years old have listened to a podcast. Also referred to as “spoken word audio,” this content is […]
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 […]
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. […]
Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, David, Glenn Carruthers, Catharine Roseberry, Katie Sinkoski, Jennifer Hisrich, Jenny Barber, Danielle, Mr. Robin White, Andrew Gregg, Andrew S. Fuller, Damien Neil, […]
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 […]
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