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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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Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine 2025 Award Eligibility post! buff.ly/2OBnGgP
Cover image The Duet by Nilah Magruder. Two brown women sit at a piano smiling at each other as they play. The younger woman with long white hair, a pendant, and a lavenger dress sits further away. The older woman with her black hair in a bun, her hovering, disembodied head has a propellor and metal collar on her throat, sits closer to us. Her body underneath is dressed in a burgandy dress with poofy sleeves. Her right hand, also with a metal collar, is detatched and on the keyboard between the other woman's hands. Behind them is a blue curtain in front of a gray wall. The Uncanny banner, July/August 2025, Issue Sixty-Five, list of author, essayists, and poets credits, and the editor credits, are on top of the image. Cover image Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong. An Asian woman with long black hair, wearing a blue qipao-like dress with blue floral designs, holds a pair of black scissors and faces us. A shadowy figure, a woman in profile, stands behind her. At the women’s feet are gray-brown skyscrapers. Behind her is a pale-green-blue sky and a pale yellow sun-like circle surrounded by yellow rays and black angled points shaped like scissors. The Uncanny banner, May/June 2025, Issue Sixty-Four, list of author, essayists, and poets credits, and the editor credits, are on top of the image.
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine 2025 Award Eligibility post! buff.ly/2OBnGgP
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 Cover for Issue 62 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Maxine Vee titled "Mermay - Golden Hour." In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The words "January/February 2025" and "Issue Sixty-Two" are at top. The list of credits is on the bottom
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
For me, it's “Barbershops of the Floating City” in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social because I write a lot of dark fiction, but this was the first time I completely rewrote an ending because I wanted so badly for the characters to have a better chance at living.

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Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: child abuse   You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Check out the poem in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Audio available on the Uncanny podcast!
there are no taxis for the dead - Uncanny Magazine
The horse brings you home wading through summer rain, reminds you             not to stare too long at the halo of light the flicker of streetlamps, metal heads bowed over fogged streets your bad knee...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Check out the poem!
@aijiang.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
We Drink Lava - Uncanny Magazine
We, the rebirthed gods, drink their past, we drink their anger, and we feel the ashes scrape against our lips, the heat boiling our skin, snaking its way in and its rough texture, cooling against our ...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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awprihandita.bsky.social
I worked so very hard on this one. It was—and probably still is—the most technically challenging story I’ve ever written. And it gave me so much anxiety also bc I wrote it the week after I wrote “Negative Scholarship,” which is a very hard story to live up to.

But maybe I did it. Maybe! We’ll see.
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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This was my week 5 Clarion story that gave me cervical misalignment bc I wrote too much & too hard. Literally 20,000+ of planning notes for an 8.1k story … and then this summer I had rotator cuff tendonitis while revising this story.

I literally gave my arm TWICE for this little bitch. 😭
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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awprihandita.bsky.social
(This doesn’t happen ever BUT I actually got TWO acceptances in less than 24hrs!)

Happy to announce I’ll also be returning to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social with a body horror novelette ft. a wartime factory where its workers get their memories wiped out every night via hounds that lick their bodies!
awprihandita.bsky.social A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 4d
I just saw the first episode of PLURIBUS and

(1) What the fuck [complimentary]
(2) Some of the imageries here really remind me of what I have in my latest Clarkesworld story sale (I just signed the contract today)

Yes this is an announcement! New scifi horror from me coming soon!
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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jrdawson.bsky.social
Like I said, I'm still reading, but these are at the tippy top of my brain going into November. I'll post more as the months pass.

And I'd also like to drop a note about one of my own stories, "Six People to Revise You," from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

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Six People to Revise You - Uncanny Magazine
A parent or guardian Someone who has known you since childhood A mentor or teacher An employer or coworker A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend Someone who does not consider themself a loved on...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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PINSKER DROP
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New novelette! "The Millay Illusion" by Sarah Pinsker! buff.ly/QlbjvnF
Sarah Pinsker
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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If you know me, you know I love research, so it was tremendous fun doing a deep dive not only into what a magic show bill might have looked like at the time in question, but also, literally, how the trick is done.
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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sarahpinsker.bsky.social
This is my only story coming out in 2025 thanks to some publishing date weirdness elsewhere, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. l have a soft spot for fiction & film about stage magic, and it was fun to play in that playground.
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New novelette! "The Millay Illusion" by Sarah Pinsker! buff.ly/QlbjvnF
Sarah Pinsker
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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librariangoblin.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to have one of my stories read by @wilwheaton.net for his podcast "It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton." The most recent story on the show is "The Odyssey Problem" from @clarkesworldmagazine.com . Here's the "Storytime" main page with links to listening options: wilwheaton.net/podcast/
It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton
You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
It's a good day when your editor says the draft is "fucking perfect." 😄

I'll have a new essay in the Jan/Feb edition of Uncanny Magazine!
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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foxesandroses.bsky.social
What if the Snatchers were here, but instead of turning everyone into a copy of themselves, they turned everyone into the copy of one person. The Leader.
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Happy to announce I sold my scifi horror/satire novelette "The Snatchers" to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

It’s a story inspired by “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. It sprang out of my literal nightmares about…everything. It's about those who snatch people and make them disappear.
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
Highly recommend pairing a read with my poem, "The Mourning Robot" in @uncannymagazine.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 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...

THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
Cover for THE KING MUST DIE, illustrated by the amazing Eleonor Piteira.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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romiesays.bsky.social
New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny.

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Prayer for Winter - Uncanny Magazine
It is cold, and I am a small animal compared to the heavy sky. Food to heat my blood is not plentiful. My friends are lean and sleepy.   There is so much I am afraid of: that a stumble could lay a chi...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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mariness.bsky.social
....in which I prove that I can write around 3000 words on Amazon's Wheel of Time that aren't JUST about Lanfear.

(she's definitely MENTIONED though.)

#Wot #WheelOfTime
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New essay! "Portrayals of Disability in The Wheel of Time, Sony Pictures/Amazon Studios" by Mari Ness! buff.ly/Gh0Fp97
Mari Ness
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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madmerrymeg.bsky.social
Great read by a great writer
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New essay! "Portrayals of Disability in The Wheel of Time, Sony Pictures/Amazon Studios" by Mari Ness! buff.ly/Gh0Fp97
Mari Ness
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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sweeter.bsky.social
oo one of of my favourite topics
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New essay! "Portrayals of Disability in The Wheel of Time, Sony Pictures/Amazon Studios" by Mari Ness! buff.ly/Gh0Fp97
Mari Ness
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Cover: 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 text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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ICYMI, The Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 67A features “The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker, as read by Erika Ensign; “Call Us Boy.” by Somto Ihezue, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Sarah Pinsker! buff.ly/YxaYPx0
Cover: 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 text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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ICYMI, Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Part 1 also features essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Mari Ness; poetry by Somto Ihezue & Romie Stott; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Eleanna Castroianni; and Paul Lewin’s Mushroom Mother of Us All as the cover! buff.ly/yEqnVQ3
Cover: 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 text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM