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(Modern Fantasy) Luna inherits her
late grandmother’s house if she lives there for a year. She finds it full of
birds that only she can see—and they’re trying to talk to her.
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(Magical Realism) The narrator,
second-generation Chinese, doesn’t take the surplus fish ritual seriously.
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(SF Mystery) The inventor of
trans-multiverse travel invites hundreds of instances of herself to a
conference. It’s great fun until one gets murdered.
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(Time Travel) It’s 1968 and Ali likes
to hang out with her college friends at New York’s Cooney’s bar. The bar was
rather different in the 1920s, and Ali is about to see it first hand.
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(SF) Harry, a clone of Lee Kwan Yew,
was on track to graduate until decided to start improvising.
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(Mainstream) Cyd’s suicide brings his
friend Kelvin to Albany for his memorial.
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(Alternate History Fantasy; Dominion
of the Fallen) Two people from a secret, underwater House try to infiltrate a
troublesome surface House that rules much of a Paris still recovering from
long-ago magical wars.
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(Surreal Horror) Your guide takes you
through an exhibit of curiosities—what once would have been called a freak
show.
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(Lovecraftian Humor) R’lyeh sucks. If
you’re number 997 of Shub-Niggurath’s young, it’s easy to feel neglected
<i>and</i> bored.
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(SF Poetic Prose) An android expresses
its love for a human being in terms that are at once romantic and chemical.
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(Alternate History Robot SF) Computron
was the only intelligent robot built in the 1950s. Now all he does is answer
questions from children and write fan-fiction about the robot in the
Hyperdimension Warp Record TV show.
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(Myth) Tired of being a goddess, she
wants to return to her earthly form. But she also wants justice.
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(Horror) A famous author gets
kidnapped on the eve of a major awards ceremony.
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How the Maine Coon Cat Learned to Love the Sea
by Seanan McGuire Time: 08m (ShortStory)
Issue: Uncanny 17
(Legend) It all started with a
shipment of pure-white angora cats on a boat that sank.
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(Mythic Fantasy) Atalanta was the only
woman Argonaut, and her version of the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece
is rather different from the one we usually hear, albeit a bit more
plausible.
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(Magical Realism) Anisa wants to win
Sara back, so she turns herself into a city for her.
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(Horror) Annie’s grandmother is dying,
and her parents are fighting, but she keeps imagining that she sees giant
dragons under the mountains and wishes she could join them.
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(SF) Charlie’s company does
clandestine jobs for the ultra rich. He likes it because they’ve given him
the body he always wanted to have. Now if he can just learn to be satisfied
with it.
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(Historical Uncanny Horror) Fifteen
years after his lover died in World War I, Siegfried starts receiving letters
from him, dated just before his death.
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(Horror) Zaria is a monster girl, but
she can pass for a regular girl. Her sister, Phoebe, can’t pass. Problems
ensue when Zaria’s boy/girlfriends want to meet her family.
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(Modern Fantasy) Eiko sees a meteor,
finds three dead birds, and is sure that it’s an omen telling her to do
something.
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(Allegory) The narrator is packing to
move before the season changes, and gives advice to his/her child, who is
reluctant to go.
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(Time Travel) In which a chorus of
time travelers give us advice, in the paradoxical way of time travelers.
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Pipecleaner Sculptures and Other Necessary Work
by Tina Connolly Time: 02m (ShortStory)
Issue: Uncanny 19
(Generation Ship) As the ship
approaches its destination, Ninah’s work teaching preschool is about to come
to an end.
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(Post-Apocalypse) Satellite City will
die if it can’t find a new source of power. Alia thinks the secret lies in a
library of ancient books, but she needs results soon because her support is
drying up.
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(Time Travel) A modest proposal for a
grant to experiment with a most imperfect time machine.
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(Slipstream) When Finley gets bitten
by a vampire, he’s pissed because he didn’t consent. When he learns he’s
going to become a vampire, he’s really upset, because it’s not legal for a
trans person to be a vampire at all.
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(Fantasy Humor) On speed-dating night
at the Dog and Biscuit, Meg notices that all the guys seem to be figures from
Greek mythology.
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(Modern Mythic Fantasy) A new god
arises in response to the pleas of an oppressed people. Unfortunately it’s
not exactly the god they were asking for.
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(High Fantasy) Allpa receives a magic
sword on his grandmother’s deathbed. Three spirits in the sword are supposed
to train him to be a mighty warrior, but he really just wants to be a better
farmer.
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(Slipstream) Celeste endures the life
of a poor black woman in Indianapolis, but she has a little bit of magic, and
she means to stand up to the people trying to destroy her neighborhood.
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(Mainstream Horror) Running away from
a relationship that ended very badly, Erika joins some hikers en route to a
place called “World’s End.”
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(Fantasy Horror) Edgar Allan Poe’s
writing has brought a creature into this world and it inhabits a young woman
who wants to be rid of it. It has its own agenda.
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(Historical Fantasy) A young
apprentice at making magic gloves considers breaking the rules to make a
special pair to control his sister’s epilepsy.
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(Fantasy Horror) When the world
changed and the sky turned silver, magic became real, Emma Anne became a
little girl and her neighbor became a pirate. But can a little girl fight off
an attack by the Loping Man?
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(Memoir) Born in Budapest but raised
in America, the narrator tells of her feelings about assimilation and
alienation.
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(Fantasy) Vera gets a job helping a
local woman seal the spirits of the dead so they can fade away in peace.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Uncanny Magazine
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