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Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Eight! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 5, 2020. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 5 and half on February 2. Featuring all-new short fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, NicoleKornher-Stace
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying strangerPAQTASULTIEG
Musigisg ewniaq, the sky is turning blue: aurorae humming electric dreaming among the clouds. Milamu’gl jugo’tui: Bring me the different colors of a murmuration of strange birds taking to air when dawn arrives. Paqtasultieg, We are shining bright in the three suns of a new stratosphere, watching limb reach to limb in the BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell.LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The warFEMME AND SUNDANCE
I was 19 when I met Tommy. A day and a bit into a two-day Greyhound trip from bumfuck, Nevada to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Going to meet some trick from the internet. Thought it was true love. Funky and itching for a smoke when we pulled into a truck stop in a one-road Nebraskatown
I FREQUENTLY HEAR MUSIC IN THE VERY HEART OF NOISE The fifth floor was George’s, but he also rented space at the Whitehall Hotel, three blocks away, when the family home got too hectic even for him. I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise. After that, he took a penthouse overlooking the Hudson from Riverside Drive; Ira lived in the apartment next door. HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Eight! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 5, 2020. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 5 and half on February 2. Featuring all-new short fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, NicoleKornher-Stace
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying strangerPAQTASULTIEG
Musigisg ewniaq, the sky is turning blue: aurorae humming electric dreaming among the clouds. Milamu’gl jugo’tui: Bring me the different colors of a murmuration of strange birds taking to air when dawn arrives. Paqtasultieg, We are shining bright in the three suns of a new stratosphere, watching limb reach to limb in the BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell.LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The warFEMME AND SUNDANCE
I was 19 when I met Tommy. A day and a bit into a two-day Greyhound trip from bumfuck, Nevada to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Going to meet some trick from the internet. Thought it was true love. Funky and itching for a smoke when we pulled into a truck stop in a one-road Nebraskatown
I FREQUENTLY HEAR MUSIC IN THE VERY HEART OF NOISE The fifth floor was George’s, but he also rented space at the Whitehall Hotel, three blocks away, when the family home got too hectic even for him. I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise. After that, he took a penthouse overlooking the Hudson from Riverside Drive; Ira lived in the apartment next door.ISSUES ARCHIVE
Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Eight! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 5, 2020. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 5 and half on February 2. Featuring all-new short fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, NicoleKornher-Stace
CONTACT US - UNCANNY MAGAZINE A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Search for: Search Menu EVOKING THE GOTHIC: THE HOUSE THAT ANXIETY BUILT Meghan Ball. Meghan Ball is a writer, editor, and musician. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, io9.com, and Fireside Fiction.She has also appeared on several podcasts including Caring Into The Void and Black Mass Appeal.When not writing, she listens to an unhealthy amount of music, plays guitar, and does cross stitch. FIN - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Terese Mason Pierre. Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill and Quire, and Strange Horizons, among others.Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Ignyte Award, and Best of the Net. 50 THINGS EVERY AI WORKING WITH HUMANS SHOULD KNOW 50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know. To commemorate the life and work of WHEEP-3, Vita Silica reprints below perhaps the most famous generated fragment from WHEEP-3’s third phase of giving advice to advanced AI. “Michael Sorkin,” the name of the master architectural critic, is listed as the germination phrase for thefragment.
OLD HABITS - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and went on to live in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. She is a recipient of the Campbell, the World Fantasy, WHERE OAKEN HEARTS DO GATHER About “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (5 contributors, 5 notes, 7 comments) →“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (Roud 423, Child 313) is a traditional English folk ballad. Like many traditional songs, the lyrics are unattributed. Child transcribed twenty verses, and a twenty-first got added later (and is included here for some unknownreason—I keep
FIVE REASONS NOT TO BRING BACK WOOLLY MAMMOTHS- A GUEST Magnificent woolly mammoths once reigned over ancient steppes: 10 feet tall at the shoulder, weighing around 5 tons, and lushly furred. Their curved tusks could reach 14 feet long. If we could, should we bring them back? Some people are trying. Sergei Zimov hopes to create a Pleistocene Park with mammoths in northeastern Siberia as THE BOOK OF THE KRAKEN Carrie Vaughn. Carrie Vaughn’s work includes the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her most recent work includes a pair of novellas about Robin Hood’s children, The Ghosts of Sherwood and The Heirs of MY COUNTRY IS A GHOST Eugenia Triantafyllou. Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Ignyte and Nebula Awards, and she is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying stranger OLD HABITS - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and went on to live in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. She is a recipient of the Campbell, the World Fantasy,HUNGRY GHOST
Millie Ho. Millie Ho’s short stories and poems appear in Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere.She is nominated for the 2021 Ignyte Awards, the 2021 Rhysling Awards, and was a finalist for the 2019 Rhysling Awards. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell. THE POLITICS OF COMFORT Jim C. Hines. Jim C. Hines’s latest book is Revisionary, the fourth and final in his modern–day fantasy series about a magic–wielding librarian, a dryad, a secret society founded by Johannes Gutenberg, a flaming spider, and an enchanted convertible.He’s also the author of the Princess series of fairy tale retellings (in which Snow White is a witch, Cinderella has a glass sword, and BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others.A CATALOG OF STORMS
Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
SO YOU WANT TO BE A HONEYPOT The club’s steamy atmosphere, dark corners, and steady trickle of uninformed foreigners might overwhelm an innocent small-town girl. But Claudia had higher standards. She was a talented soldier with sharp eyes, keen reflexes, and a flexible mind. Those qualities made HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying stranger OLD HABITS - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and went on to live in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. She is a recipient of the Campbell, the World Fantasy,HUNGRY GHOST
Millie Ho. Millie Ho’s short stories and poems appear in Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere.She is nominated for the 2021 Ignyte Awards, the 2021 Rhysling Awards, and was a finalist for the 2019 Rhysling Awards. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell. THE POLITICS OF COMFORT Jim C. Hines. Jim C. Hines’s latest book is Revisionary, the fourth and final in his modern–day fantasy series about a magic–wielding librarian, a dryad, a secret society founded by Johannes Gutenberg, a flaming spider, and an enchanted convertible.He’s also the author of the Princess series of fairy tale retellings (in which Snow White is a witch, Cinderella has a glass sword, and BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others.A CATALOG OF STORMS
Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
SO YOU WANT TO BE A HONEYPOT The club’s steamy atmosphere, dark corners, and steady trickle of uninformed foreigners might overwhelm an innocent small-town girl. But Claudia had higher standards. She was a talented soldier with sharp eyes, keen reflexes, and a flexible mind. Those qualities made FIN - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Terese Mason Pierre. Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill and Quire, and Strange Horizons, among others.Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Ignyte Award, and Best of the Net.A CATALOG OF STORMS
Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
LIKE A RIVER LOVES THE SKY Emma Törzs. Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize.She’s grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, the EVOKING THE GOTHIC: THE HOUSE THAT ANXIETY BUILT Meghan Ball. Meghan Ball is a writer, editor, and musician. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, io9.com, and Fireside Fiction.She has also appeared on several podcasts including Caring Into The Void and Black Mass Appeal.When not writing, she listens to an unhealthy amount of music, plays guitar, and does cross stitch. THE INACCESSIBILITY OF HEAVEN A night like any other in Starhollow: the headlights of cars, small and lost between the skyscrapers; the smell of hydromel and wine wafting from those few bars still open; and above me, the distant light of the stars, a constant reminder of the inaccessibility of Heaven. I climbed the stairs to my flat, exhausted, my arms covered inclaw-marks.
OUR TALONS CAN CRUSH GALAXIES Oh yeah. Like a fuckin’ baby. I didn’t know what you were, he said. I didn’t know. I just wanted to get your attention, and you wouldn’t even look at me. I tried everything. Well, kid, I says, putting my cigarette out on his family’s floral carpet, you’ve sure as hell got it now. Our talons can crush galaxies. JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: A PRIMER Sheldon Teitelbaum and Eli Herstein note in the Encyclopedia Judaica that traditionally Jewish literature has avoided the purely imaginative, often framing stories that would seem on their face to be fantastic as true accounts or using the less realistic elements to make a point about the true nature of the world. Despite this, Jewishfolklore
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Marie Brennan. Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She most recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent; the first book of that series, A Natural History of Dragons, was a finalist for the THE DISABLED PEOPLE DESTROY SCIENCE FICTION MANIFESTO Elsa Sjunneson is a deafblind speculative fiction writer and editor. Her nonfiction work can be found in The Boston Globe, Fireside, Uncanny, and Tor.com. She is the managing editor of Hugo Finalist magazine Fireside. Dominik Parisien is an editor, writer, and poet. His work has appeared in NOT AS CRAZY AS YOU'D THINK: THE BORDERLINE PROTAGONIST IN A Borderline (if you’ll forgive the reductive label for the sake of brevity) is uniquely qualified to excel in a fantasy narrative — especially a story wherein the existence of magic is a well-kept secret. Millie spent the first twenty-six years of her life unaware of the existence of magic, and now has to accept (and operate within the HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Eight! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 5, 2020. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 5 and half on February 2. Featuring all-new short fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, NicoleKornher-Stace
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate THEY SHALL SALT THE EARTH WITH SEEDS OF GLASS Alaya Dawn Johnson. Alaya Dawn Johnson is a Nebula award-winning short story writer and author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults, Trouble the Saints, was released in July 2020 from Tor books.A short story collection, Reconstruction, was released in January 2021 from Small Beer Press.Her young adult novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying stranger METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell.FEMME AND SUNDANCE
I was 19 when I met Tommy. A day and a bit into a two-day Greyhound trip from bumfuck, Nevada to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Going to meet some trick from the internet. Thought it was true love. Funky and itching for a smoke when we pulled into a truck stop in a one-road Nebraskatown
BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others.LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The war NOTES FROM LIMINAL SPACES I am a first generation Japanese Canadian immigrant. I gratefully reside on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples: the Musqueam, the Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil Waututh Nations. It was an unusually warm night for mid-March and I had left the glass patio door open to let in the fresh air. I’d already heard HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Eight! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 5, 2020. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 5 and half on February 2. Featuring all-new short fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, NicoleKornher-Stace
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate THEY SHALL SALT THE EARTH WITH SEEDS OF GLASS Alaya Dawn Johnson. Alaya Dawn Johnson is a Nebula award-winning short story writer and author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults, Trouble the Saints, was released in July 2020 from Tor books.A short story collection, Reconstruction, was released in January 2021 from Small Beer Press.Her young adult novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying stranger METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell.FEMME AND SUNDANCE
I was 19 when I met Tommy. A day and a bit into a two-day Greyhound trip from bumfuck, Nevada to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Going to meet some trick from the internet. Thought it was true love. Funky and itching for a smoke when we pulled into a truck stop in a one-road Nebraskatown
BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others.LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The war NOTES FROM LIMINAL SPACES I am a first generation Japanese Canadian immigrant. I gratefully reside on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples: the Musqueam, the Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil Waututh Nations. It was an unusually warm night for mid-March and I had left the glass patio door open to let in the fresh air. I’d already heard COLLECTION - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Vivian Li. Vivian Li is a writer, musician, and composer who enjoys exploring obscure and intriguing concepts. Her creative work can be found in Plenitude Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, ellipsis literature & art, among others.Most recently, she was Longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020, and received Honorable Mentions from Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize 2019. UNCANNY MAGAZINE ISSUE FORTY Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on May 4, 2021. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on May 4 and half on June 1. Featuring all-new short fiction by Fran Wilde, José Pablo Iriarte, Rachel Swirsky, Eugenia Triantafyllou, EVOKING THE GOTHIC: THE HOUSE THAT ANXIETY BUILT Meghan Ball. Meghan Ball is a writer, editor, and musician. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, io9.com, and Fireside Fiction.She has also appeared on several podcasts including Caring Into The Void and Black Mass Appeal.When not writing, she listens to an unhealthy amount of music, plays guitar, and does cross stitch. FIN - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Terese Mason Pierre. Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill and Quire, and Strange Horizons, among others.Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Ignyte Award, and Best of the Net. 50 THINGS EVERY AI WORKING WITH HUMANS SHOULD KNOW 50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know. To commemorate the life and work of WHEEP-3, Vita Silica reprints below perhaps the most famous generated fragment from WHEEP-3’s third phase of giving advice to advanced AI. “Michael Sorkin,” the name of the master architectural critic, is listed as the germination phrase for thefragment.
OLD HABITS - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and went on to live in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. She is a recipient of the Campbell, the World Fantasy,LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The war FIVE REASONS NOT TO BRING BACK WOOLLY MAMMOTHS- A GUEST Magnificent woolly mammoths once reigned over ancient steppes: 10 feet tall at the shoulder, weighing around 5 tons, and lushly furred. Their curved tusks could reach 14 feet long. If we could, should we bring them back? Some people are trying. Sergei Zimov hopes to create a Pleistocene Park with mammoths in northeastern Siberia as THE PAGE AND THE PANEL: WRITING BETWEEN PROSE AND COMICS G. Willow Wilson. G. Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel The Bird King (2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms Marvel (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-Men, Superman, and Wonder Woman.Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was I FREQUENTLY HEAR MUSIC IN THE VERY HEART OF NOISE The fifth floor was George’s, but he also rented space at the Whitehall Hotel, three blocks away, when the family home got too hectic even for him. I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise. After that, he took a penthouse overlooking the Hudson from Riverside Drive; Ira lived in the apartment next door. HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Millie Ho. Millie Ho’s short stories and poems appear in Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere.She is nominated for the 2021 Ignyte Awards, the 2021 Rhysling Awards, and was a finalist for the 2019 Rhysling Awards. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell. SO YOU WANT TO BE A HONEYPOT The club’s steamy atmosphere, dark corners, and steady trickle of uninformed foreigners might overwhelm an innocent small-town girl. But Claudia had higher standards. She was a talented soldier with sharp eyes, keen reflexes, and a flexible mind. Those qualities made THE POLITICS OF COMFORT Jim C. Hines. Jim C. Hines’s latest book is Revisionary, the fourth and final in his modern–day fantasy series about a magic–wielding librarian, a dryad, a secret society founded by Johannes Gutenberg, a flaming spider, and an enchanted convertible.He’s also the author of the Princess series of fairy tale retellings (in which Snow White is a witch, Cinderella has a glass sword, and BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others.A CATALOG OF STORMS
Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
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Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as “excitement HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways.SUBMISSIONS
Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate PRESENCE - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Presence - Uncanny Magazine. A pair of birds dart across your narrow field of vision on the screen. The last user had left the telepresence machine near the bed closest to the door before disconnecting, with the camera and monitor pointing at the open window so that you, the next user, would not have to stare into the face of a dying stranger SO YOU WANT TO BE A HONEYPOT The club’s steamy atmosphere, dark corners, and steady trickle of uninformed foreigners might overwhelm an innocent small-town girl. But Claudia had higher standards. She was a talented soldier with sharp eyes, keen reflexes, and a flexible mind. Those qualities madeHUNGRY GHOST
Millie Ho. Millie Ho’s short stories and poems appear in Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere.She is nominated for the 2021 Ignyte Awards, the 2021 Rhysling Awards, and was a finalist for the 2019 Rhysling Awards. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell. THE POLITICS OF COMFORT Jim C. Hines. Jim C. Hines’s latest book is Revisionary, the fourth and final in his modern–day fantasy series about a magic–wielding librarian, a dryad, a secret society founded by Johannes Gutenberg, a flaming spider, and an enchanted convertible.He’s also the author of the Princess series of fairy tale retellings (in which Snow White is a witch, Cinderella has a glass sword, andA CATALOG OF STORMS
Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others.FANDOM FOR ROBOTS
Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as “excitementTHE HUNGRY ONES
Emma Törzs. Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize.She’s grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, the FIN - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Terese Mason Pierre. Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill and Quire, and Strange Horizons, among others.Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Ignyte Award, and Best of the Net.THE AXOLOTL INQUEST
Lisa M. Bradley. Lisa M. Bradley writes everything from novels to haiku, usually with a speculative slant inflected by her Latinidad. Her debut novel, Exile, depicts a young woman’s desperate attempts to escape the street wars of her quarantined hometown (Rosarium Publishing, July 2019).Her short fiction and poetry appear in numerous venues, most recently Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Anathema MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: TRANSFORMERS AS TRANS FANTASY I learned about Transformers from my sister in sixth grade. Her English class had watched part of the first live-action movie, and she identified, correctly, that I would love it. I remember sitting across from her at the kitchen table and demanding for the umpteenthA CATALOG OF STORMS
Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
LIKE A RIVER LOVES THE SKY Emma Törzs. Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize.She’s grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, the BADASS MOMS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Rae Carson. Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press.Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others. THE INACCESSIBILITY OF HEAVEN A night like any other in Starhollow: the headlights of cars, small and lost between the skyscrapers; the smell of hydromel and wine wafting from those few bars still open; and above me, the distant light of the stars, a constant reminder of the inaccessibility of Heaven. I climbed the stairs to my flat, exhausted, my arms covered inclaw-marks.
JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: A PRIMER Sheldon Teitelbaum and Eli Herstein note in the Encyclopedia Judaica that traditionally Jewish literature has avoided the purely imaginative, often framing stories that would seem on their face to be fantastic as true accounts or using the less realistic elements to make a point about the true nature of the world. Despite this, Jewishfolklore
NOT AS CRAZY AS YOU'D THINK: THE BORDERLINE PROTAGONIST IN A Borderline (if you’ll forgive the reductive label for the sake of brevity) is uniquely qualified to excel in a fantasy narrative — especially a story wherein the existence of magic is a well-kept secret. Millie spent the first twenty-six years of her life unaware of the existence of magic, and now has to accept (and operate within the HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate FIN - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Terese Mason Pierre. Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill and Quire, and Strange Horizons, among others.Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Ignyte Award, and Best of the Net. OLD HABITS - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and went on to live in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. She is a recipient of the Campbell, the World Fantasy,LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The war POSTCARDS FROM THE APOCALYPSE Surviving Columbus is a primer in the mechanics of apocalypse, documenting the truth of what it means to face the end of the world and survive. And then to keep surviving, even thriving, when the world keeps trying to kill you. It is, in a sense, the stuff of speculative fiction. But it is also very much reality. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell. CLEARLY LETTERED IN A MOSTLY STEADY HAND Entrance There’s a ticket booth on my tongue. Don’t look in my eyes, don’t plead curiosity, you won’t get anywhere with that. Try it and you’ll see your reflection in my sea-green gaze: your shadow sprinting through the heavy glass doors. You’ll smell a whiff of brine, perhaps something more volatile. You’ll be DRESSES LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS (Content note: references to childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, pregnancy loss.) Beni can always guess which ones are going to be the most expensive. If the girl had sprung for the keepsake rig—the plastic liner and the marbleized cardboard longbox to avoid creasing the bodice—that one was going to be pricey. It was alsoFANDOM FOR ROBOTS
Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as “excitement HOME - UNCANNY MAGAZINEABOUTFICTIONNONFICTIONISSUESNEWSLETTERBLOG The Uncanny Valley. by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty. Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degreesout.
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Uncanny Magazine is currently CLOSED to short story, nonfiction, novella, and poetry submissions. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates. Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate FIN - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Terese Mason Pierre. Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill and Quire, and Strange Horizons, among others.Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Ignyte Award, and Best of the Net. OLD HABITS - UNCANNY MAGAZINE Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and went on to live in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. She is a recipient of the Campbell, the World Fantasy,LEST WE FORGET
I am dying of the war, though not in it. Such is the nature of wars. A person doesn’t have to die in battle to be killed by a war. A person doesn’t even have to be a soldier to die of one. Wars have always been slow killers as well as quick. The war POSTCARDS FROM THE APOCALYPSE Surviving Columbus is a primer in the mechanics of apocalypse, documenting the truth of what it means to face the end of the world and survive. And then to keep surviving, even thriving, when the world keeps trying to kill you. It is, in a sense, the stuff of speculative fiction. But it is also very much reality. METAL LIKE BLOOD IN THE DARK Sister’s drills itched with the taste of it, the tang of metals, like blood in the dark. It was huge. Bigger than the base they grew up in, bigger than all but the largest asteroids. It hung black and silent in the shadow of a broken moon, and then the remains of the moon slid away and light shattered across the shell. CLEARLY LETTERED IN A MOSTLY STEADY HAND Entrance There’s a ticket booth on my tongue. Don’t look in my eyes, don’t plead curiosity, you won’t get anywhere with that. Try it and you’ll see your reflection in my sea-green gaze: your shadow sprinting through the heavy glass doors. You’ll smell a whiff of brine, perhaps something more volatile. You’ll be DRESSES LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS (Content note: references to childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, pregnancy loss.) Beni can always guess which ones are going to be the most expensive. If the girl had sprung for the keepsake rig—the plastic liner and the marbleized cardboard longbox to avoid creasing the bodice—that one was going to be pricey. It was alsoFANDOM FOR ROBOTS
Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as “excitementTHE HUNGRY ONES
Emma Törzs. Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize.She’s grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, thePODCASTS ARCHIVES
Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 1. by in Uncanny Magazine Issue One. Welcome to the first installment of the Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Podcast Episode 1, you will hear: Editors’ Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: “If You Were a Tiger, I’d Have to Wear White” by Maria Dahvana Headley, as read by Amal El-Mohtar Poetry: “The New Ways” by Amal El-Mohtar EVOKING THE GOTHIC: THE HOUSE THAT ANXIETY BUILT Meghan Ball. Meghan Ball is a writer, editor, and musician. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, io9.com, and Fireside Fiction.She has also appeared on several podcasts including Caring Into The Void and Black Mass Appeal.When not writing, she listens to an unhealthy amount of music, plays guitar, and does cross stitch. MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: TRANSFORMERS AS TRANS FANTASY I learned about Transformers from my sister in sixth grade. Her English class had watched part of the first live-action movie, and she identified, correctly, that I would love it. I remember sitting across from her at the kitchen table and demanding for the umpteenth 50 THINGS EVERY AI WORKING WITH HUMANS SHOULD KNOW 50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know. To commemorate the life and work of WHEEP-3, Vita Silica reprints below perhaps the most famous generated fragment from WHEEP-3’s third phase of giving advice to advanced AI. “Michael Sorkin,” the name of the master architectural critic, is listed as the germination phrase for thefragment.
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Millie Ho. Millie Ho’s short stories and poems appear in Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere.She is nominated for the 2021 Ignyte Awards, the 2021 Rhysling Awards, and was a finalist for the 2019 Rhysling Awards. LIKE A RIVER LOVES THE SKY Emma Törzs. Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize.She’s grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, the THE INACCESSIBILITY OF HEAVEN A night like any other in Starhollow: the headlights of cars, small and lost between the skyscrapers; the smell of hydromel and wine wafting from those few bars still open; and above me, the distant light of the stars, a constant reminder of the inaccessibility of Heaven. I climbed the stairs to my flat, exhausted, my arms covered inclaw-marks.
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Mumma’s aunt at the edge of town yelled back lightning once. The weather struck back: a whole family became a thick grey mist that filled their house and didn’t disperse. Then Mumma’s aunt and the Mayor’s son shouted weather names when storms approached. At firstit
THE PAGE AND THE PANEL: WRITING BETWEEN PROSE AND COMICS G. Willow Wilson. G. Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel The Bird King (2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms Marvel (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-Men, Superman, and Wonder Woman.Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was A MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Search for: Search __* __
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