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For me, fiction always starts with a what-if. The work may start with an image or feeling, but at that point it could still be poetry. It doesn’t really become fiction until that what-if element leads me to a succession of events, a story. It’s a literal counter-factual: the what-if reality were different, if dragons […]
It’s late at night on a deserted residential street in Brooklyn. My wife and I are walking to the subway station after a concert, having bid the friends who came with us goodbye at the corner. We’re not thinking much of it—not thinking about the fact that one of the people we left behind is […]
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The Last Jedi was the last movie I saw in theaters. Not the most recent. The last. I thrilled to the familiar cadences of Star Wars, to the joy of the new characters bringing it alive again…and then I barely made it out of the theater upright. I went back to my family’s vacation rental […]
(Content note: Descriptions of online harassment, threats and misogyny.) Like you, like almost all writers, I live on the internet. I work there, too. My Twitter DMs have gotten me gigs and solicitation for anthologies and hot tips and networking. They’ve also brought me suggestions that I should kill myself because of my opinion of […]
The other day, I was helping my mom pack to move, while watching old Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns in the background, and I asked her whether she considered herself a Star Trek fan. Even though it was she who introduced me to Star Trek in the first place, and I consider myself a […]
I’ve never tasted a Twinkie. I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen one in the crumb, but I could perfectly describe to you its mythic longevity, its size and shape, as well as its cloying cream filling. I can do this because of its outsized presence in popular American media, appearing in a multitude of […]
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 COMMANDERS Alex E. T. Snyder, Alex Eiser, Alexander M Henderson, Bliss Ehrlich, Crystal Huff, Dain Unicorn, Daniel Sales, Derek Smith, Edmund Schweppe, Girish M Duvvuri, Jayme Lundeen, justin […]
Much, possibly too much, has already been said about the craft of writing fiction, most of it by authors who possess a lot more by way of genius than I do. Yet as more and more prose authors take up writing monthly comic book series—superhero comics, creator-owned comics, licensed books of all kinds—and more and […]
It’s been said that whoever writes in the field of science fiction stands on the shoulders of giants, the towering titans of yesteryear. Their hard work built the playground; we just play in it. At the risk of thoroughly mixing those two metaphors, it occurs to me that even if we allow for the existence of […]
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