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“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.” ―C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters “I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.” ―Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War A letter is a time capsule. A […]
We are reaching for each other. There is so much space between us, and yet still we are always reaching for each other, even if we’ll never quite manage to bridge the gap between our fingertips. We are reaching, although we are very tired. We are reaching as best we can. Do you have a […]
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 Catharine Roseberry, Katie Sinkoski, Jennifer Hisrich, Jenny Barber, Danielle, Mr. Robin White, Andrew Gregg, Anitra Heiberg Lykke, Andrew S. Fuller, Aleksi Stenberg, Damien Neil, Not_the_brain, james […]
Growing up as a tomboy in a socially conservative town meant constantly being told that my existence was wrong. Girls don’t play video games. Girls can’t get the high score on the math test. Girls don’t like science fiction. Alongside these flat denials of reality came prescriptions for behavior. Girls shouldn’t argue. Girls shouldn’t want […]
Questions for this advice column were provided by Kickstarter Backers who selected the Ask A Unicorn reward during our 2021 Kickstarter campaign. How did you know you were a Unicorn? First I was myself, and myself only, wild and alone. The wind was in my nostrils and mud on my hide. Then the human […]
No matter the culture, the one defining trait that is agreed upon for the nefarious vampire is drinking blood. Vampires in modern literature are romanticized outcasts, beautiful and untouchable…as long as they fit Eurocentric ideals of beauty. More often than not, this means fair skin, noble Eurocentric features, colored eyes that aren’t brown, and a […]
*what does it mean to be born of the dead? This question hangs in the margins on pg 42 of my copy of The Deep: A gorgeous novella by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes that delves into the mythologized history of the wajinru who are merfolk, born of Black enslaved wom*n […]
The Star Wars prequel trilogy was not very good. [citation not needed] You’ve probably heard a lot of explanations for this famous artistic failure: pompous writing; wooden acting; over-reliance on then-cutting-edge CGI which delivered on spectacle but fell apart on realism; George Lucas literally divorcing the only editor who could bring his scattered Sunday-serial narrative […]
One thing I’ve learned over the years is the importance of judging works for what they are rather than what they aren’t. As a writer, it can be tempting to break a work open, re-contextualize it, and imagine it as something more fulfilling for myself than what it really was. Midnight Mass carried me down […]
Cyberpunk is dead. It’s been 37 years since Neuromancer was published, making the genre officially a geriatric millennial. Its aesthetics are used up. Its critique tired. Its literary power petering out like a fritzing cybernetic arm tossed in the automated dumpster beneath a blinking neon hologram. At least that’s what people say. But I’d like […]
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