Uncanny Magazine Issue 71 Cover and Table of Contents!

Coming July 7, the 71st issue of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 71, "Flower Crown" by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe: A Black woman stares at us with large eyes of honey-gold iris but blue pupil. Her hair is a mass of red, pink, dark blue, green, and yellow flowers and orange thistles that fill the cover. A white butterfly or moth sits on her finger, her hand raised to the center of her chest. She wears a shoulder-less bodice of dark crimson and deep green. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "July/August 2026," Issue Seventy-One," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 71 Table of Contents

Cover:
Flower Crown by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe

Editorial:
“The Uncanny Valley” by Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction:
“Leavetaking” by Tia Tashiro (7/7)
“Learning the Loom” by P. Djèlí Clark (7/7)
“This Is Just Another Carnaval Love Story” by Jana Bianchi (7/7)

“The Cinema of Babel” by Sam J. Miller (8/4)
“Judar of the Island: A Story Told in Four Feasts” by Rida Altaf (8/4)
“A Hundred Ways the Story Ends” by Tara Sim (8/4)

Reprint:
“White Lines on a Green Field” by Catherynne M. Valente (7/7)

Essays:
“The Strange Worlds Among Us—of Turing, Trans People, and the Road to Laniakea” by Ryka Aoki (7/7)
“Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with AI Slop 1969 AD” by Lizbeth Myles (7/7)

“This Is Not About AI” by Hana Lee (8/4)
“Middle-Aged Love: Rereading in Your Forties and Beyond” by Marissa Lingen (8/4)

Poetry:
“Instructions for Becoming Fire” by Chisomaga Umenyi (7/7)
“Six Views of a Speedster” by Gwendolyn Hicks (7/7)

“I called the swan down” by Laura Cranehill (8/4)
“enough johnnie blue” by E. A. Bourland (8/4)

Interviews:
Interview: P. Djèlí Clark by Caroline M. Yoachim (7/7)

Interview: Rida Altaf by Caroline M. Yoachim (8/4)

Podcasts:
Episode 71A (7/7): Editor’s Introduction; “Leavetaking” by Tia Tashiro, as read by Erika Ensign; “Instructions for Becoming Fire” by Chisomaga Umenyi, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Tia Tashiro.

Episode 71B (8/4): Editor’s Introduction; “The Cinema of Babel” by Sam J. Miller, as read by Matt Peters; “I called the swan down” by Laura Cranehill, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Sam J. Miller.