Uncanny Magazine Issue 63 Cover and Table of Contents!

Coming March 4, the 63rd issue of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!!

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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

Uncanny Magazine Issue 63 Table of Contents:

Cover:
Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

Editorial:
“The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction:
“10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills (3/4)
“Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson (3/4)
“Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down” by Wen-yi Lee (3/4)

“The Prodigal Mother” (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster) by Charlie Jane Anders (4/1)
“The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (4/1)
“The Island with the Animals” by Stephanie Malia Morris (4/1)
“Unbury” by Kirsty Logan (4/1)

“Infinite Halves” by J.L. Akagi (3/4)

Essays:
“Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality” by John Wiswell (3/4)
“Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character Interactions and Mixed Reality Storytelling” by Angela Liu (3/4)

“Ncuti to the Moon Take Two: Reflecting on the Fifteenth Doctor’s First Season” by Amanda-Rae Prescott (4/1)
“Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned about Worldbuilding from Imagineers” by J.R. Dawson (4/1)

Poetry:
“The Birds” by Rafiat Lamidi (3/4)
“the bud of a dead dream” by Ai Jiang (3/4)

“Time loop for the day I die.” by Abdulrazaq Salihu (4/1)
“Red-Coded and Weary” by Lesley Hart Gunn (4/1)

Interviews:
Wen-yi Lee interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/4)

Eugenia Triantafyllou interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (4/1)

Podcasts:
Episode 63A (3/4): 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 (4/1): 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.