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Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
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I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤

#art #painting #portrait #illustration
“Stasis” is a portrait painted by the artist Zara Alfonso, and is the first piece in her series about invisible illness. A portrait painting of a girl with skin so pale she’s almost translucent, her lips are tinged blue and she gazes upward through seemingly unseeing eyes. Pale moths and winged insects cover the expanse of her face and body, blending into her skin in places.
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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THE YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE by @naomikritzer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

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The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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labyrinthrat.bsky.social
"The Millay Illusion," by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social.

This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.

#labyrinthratreads2025

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The Millay Illusion - Uncanny Magazine
For the whole of the year that I now look back on as the best of my life, Susanna Miller’s act began twenty-three minutes after mine ended. I went first, to warm up the crowd, followed by the dog trai...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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labyrinthrat.bsky.social
"Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War," by @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social is a neat blend of fantasy and science fiction and found fiction--time bubbles and stasis fields and generation ships, Oh my!

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There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement park thirty-five miles northeast of Antiphony. The historic event was observed from a safe distance by a team of army engineers, with military reinforcements on standby in case anything went wrong. It was also observed from a significantly closer vantage point by Jolene Kestrel, who absolutely should not have been in the park that day. Jolene was by far the most promising student at Costa Nova University’s prestigious School of Architecture, Class of 2056. She’d entered the park shortly after dawn, illegally, through a hole in the rusty chain-link fence. For several hours—hyperfocused on her work and utterly unaware of what was about to unfold—she sat in a dilapidated bumper car and sketched endless variations on the ivy-covered steel curves of the largest roller coaster in the park, searching for the seeds of an architectural innovation that could someday be the cornerstone of her legacy.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
This is also the 1st year for a Nebula Award for Poetry! I had 5 poems out this year, but here are my favorites:

1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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The Mourning Robot - Uncanny Magazine
They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland.   We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken   bones, hands over our eyes, aluminum sheets over our he...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Since today marks 37 years of #MST3K, here's the essay that @eilatan.bsky.social wrote about it for Uncanny Magazine: Monitoring My Mind: MST3K and Me - Uncanny Magazine share.google/nvQNg25EOrTk...
Monitoring My Mind: MST3K and Me - Uncanny Magazine
(Content note: This essay contains descriptions of child abuse.) Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) was, for those who don’t know, a show that aired in the 80s and 90s. It aired on a lot of differen...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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alwayscoffee.bsky.social
I know Frankenstein's all the rage right now, so maaaaybe you'd like this poem of mine, published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social -- A Lovesong From Frankenstein's Monster:

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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Congratulations to Zara Alfonso! Zara's 2024 Uncanny Magazine cover "Stasis" won the 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Award! buff.ly/MRSHKuq
cover of issue 58, titled "Stasis" by Zara Alfonso depicts a brown gray background and a femme-presenting person with long dark hair staring up into space. Her eyes are glazed over white and her lips (and overall complexion) is a gray-blue-white. Moths of a pale-gray-blue-white rest on her face and shoulder
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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2025 Frank R. Paul Awards Winners locusmag.com/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Breakout, Ripoff, Genre is an essay I wanted to write for years. It's how reductive ideas of originality hold many writers back, and about where inspiration really comes from. The great works are all in conversation with something.

You can read it for free at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality - Uncanny Magazine
Doom is a lot like Lord of the Rings, which is a lot like Superman. You don’t have to admit you loved Doom. In fact, you can pretend you never even heard of this videogame about a floating gun that sh...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Can I slip mine in before the deadlines?
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Absolutely charmed by this @timpratt.org story at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social.
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Wend-Way-Go - Uncanny Magazine
My no-account cousin Keif (short for Keifer) rolled up to the house that afternoon in a battered old mustard-colored car of no discernible make or model. Keif was in his forties, about a dozen years y...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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foxesandroses.bsky.social
A beautiful and melancholic story of people looking for meaning in the face of chaos and companionship in the face of cruelty. How would you live in a world full of fallen angels, when miracles seem impossible?

by @nassos.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels - Uncanny Magazine
He was ten when he shot his first angel. He remembers its stupid dark eyes staring at him from the foliage above, its two sets of wings flapping, the sound of something breaking. It was shortly after ...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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wilwheaton.net
Yeah, this week's It's Storytime, Swarm X1048 - Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, '6'" by F.E. Choe, is a beautiful story that sneaks up, quietly slips its hand around your heart, and squeezes it until you think it's going to break.

I love that so many listeners love it, too.
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "To Speak in Silence" by Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com!

You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: “The other chicken, a bright yellow affair, had a smaller chicken sitting on her back and four holes piercing her breast. Through those holes, Big Yellow’s voice emanated, ‘She is late.’ Red and Black’s glazed eye glinted with annoyance. ‘Quiet. She will be here in a moment.’”
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social!

You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first. 'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social!

You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes closed, a-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and line/mark on her chin. Her hair are green leaves, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua & white lines & dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces & mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl & thus the front of her chest is an orange sun with a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick. One moment she was brushing her teeth in front of the bathroom mirror in her apartment in Toronto, wishing she had the money to go on vacation, and the next moment she was thrown upward, hitting the ceiling of a tiny, smelly, enclosed space."
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Who Are You Wearing?" by Russell Nichols @russellnichols.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin: In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "As usual, Nadia wants to join you. In her eyes, what you do is superhero work. As you walk her to school, she explains how, just last Friday, she beat a seventh-grade boy in arm-wrestling. She flexes. 'I’m strong, you know.'"
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Anémona" by Ana Hurtado!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin: In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Angustia opens her eyes to the empty cavity she holds—a body missing a body—and beyond, the Pacific Ocean way past sunset, the Casablanca beach after the kids who built sandcastles have been beaconed back to their vacation houses and the canals they dug out with their tiny hands now overrun by squirming night worms."
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
This is also the first year I had a nonfiction essay published!

“Crawling Out Of The Laptop” (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social) is about mixed reality storytelling, the history of character fandom, and the implications of AI-powered services that utilize popular characters to “interact“ with users
Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character Interactions and Mixed Reality Storytelling - Uncanny Magazine
Content Note: Child suicide   On a hot summer night, Natsumi asks you to rob a 7-11 with her. You’re just a few blocks from Ebaramachi Station, the sound of the approaching local train not as loud as ...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the novelette "And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels" by Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin: In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "He was ten when he shot his first angel. He remembers its stupid dark eyes staring at him from the foliage above, its two sets of wings flapping, the sound of something breaking. It was shortly after Uncle Pete’s funeral."
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
uncannymagazine.bsky.social
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the novelette "The Millay Illusion" by Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin: In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Susanna was the only one among the illusionists I’ve worked with in my career whose illusions ever felt like true magic to me; she alone allowed me to tap into that wonder our audiences pay us to experience."
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "To Speak in Silence" by Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com!

You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!

buff.ly/CmvWUOr
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "The other chicken, a bright yellow affair, had a smaller chicken sitting on her back and four holes piercing her breast. Through those holes, Big Yellow’s voice emanated, 'She is late.' Red and Black’s glazed eye glinted with annoyance. 'Quiet. She will be here in a moment.'"
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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timpratt.org
a classic american tale of a man, his dog, his no-account cousin, and his no-account cousin's weird car
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt @timpratt.org!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, "Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "So far, I’d spent my retirement drinking too much and spending time with my dog, but now my dog was gone, and talking to Keif was a poor substitute. 'How about we go for a ride?' he asked. 'We can look for Bella if you want.'"
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social!

You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December!

buff.ly/CmvWUOr
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first. 'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM