Attack of the Space Unicorn Limericks
So Uncanny Magazine is for real a thing! It hit every last one of its stretch goals! I couldn’t be prouder of Lynne and Michael Thomas, or more excited to be part of their project. However! Last night,...
View ArticleLinkstravaganza: Uncanny Issue #1 and the BUTT Panel
A bouquet of links for you today! First, Uncanny Magazine has launched its inaugural issue! It’s bursting at the seams with fantastic content: Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat...
View ArticleTwo Reviews and a Reading: The Grace of Kings, The Hobbit Films, and The Eaters
It’s wonderful in a whirlwindy sort of way when things you’ve been working on for a couple of months all come to fruition on the same day. To that end! I wrote an essay on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films...
View ArticleQueers Destroy SF + Uncanny Magazine 4B
Well, it’s June. June is a thing that is happening. I am distracting myself from how very June it is (in name more than climate) by gazing out at a trio of cormorants on the river, weaving in and out...
View ArticleUncanny Magazine Issue 5
I’m very happy to see Uncanny Magazine‘s Issue #5 arrive today, bringing with it exceptional essays, stories and poems. Thus far I’ve only read Sofia Samatar’s “Writing Queerly: Three Snapshots” and...
View ArticleWriting the Margins from the Centre and Other Moral Geometries
This blog post is written in fulfilment of a Kickstarter reward claimed during Uncanny Magazine‘s Year One Kickstarter (with apologies for the delay, as the Year Two Kickstarter is presently underway,...
View ArticlePodcasts: PodCastle, Uncanny, Down and Safe
Podcasts! So many podcasts! Throwing my voice about like a ventriloquist! Also I feel a peculiar sort of glamour at being a jet-setting podcaster, Snowball mic in my hand luggage as I wheel across...
View ArticleConcluding Uncanny Year One: Poem + Podcast
Today marks the online release of the last bit of Uncanny magazine’s Year One content and accompanying podcast! Episode 6B is a bit me-heavy, as I’m both reading a story and a poem (my own!) but I hope...
View ArticleVIDEO: Uncanny Duel with Max Gladstone
We bit our thumbs. We bit them at each other. We put up our swords, and today, we put up also our videos. Some months ago during Uncanny Magazine‘s Year Two Kickstarter, Max Gladstone and I pledged to...
View ArticleNew Magazine Day: UNCANNY and LIGHTSPEED
Daunting as it may be to begin a whole new month, it’s always exciting to me to see new issues of my favourite magazines drop, especially when I have something to do with them. In the May issue of...
View ArticlePodCasts: Recent Appearances
(Can one really “appear” on a podcast?) Regardless, it’s been my great good fortune to take part in wonderful conversations on a number of great podcasts recently, so I thought I’d round them all up...
View ArticleFinal 8 Hours of Uncanny Year 3 Kickstarter
Hello friends! Last night, in the final hour before I turned into a social media pumpkin for the next three weeks, I saw the delightful news that Uncanny‘s Year 3 Kickstarter had reached its...
View ArticleUNCANNY Year 3 Kickstarter Complete!
It’s done! You did it! Another year of Uncanny magazine with all stretch goals met! A total of 999 backers pledged $34410 to make this happen, and I’m thrilled. Thank you so much to everyone who...
View ArticleUncanny Magazine Podcast Wins a Parsec Award!
What it says on the tin! Last night at DragonCon it was announced that Uncanny‘s podcast — where I read stories and poems! — won a Parsec Award. I’m thrilled to have contributed to this, and super...
View Article“Seasons of Glass and Iron” reprinted in UNCANNY Issue 13
I’m back from the World Fantasy Convention, and have loads I want to say about it, but first — it’s a new month, so there’s new Uncanny! Issue 13 is wholly available in ebook form, and the first half...
View ArticleUncanny 14B Podcast: “To Budapest, With Love” by Theodora Goss
The second half of Uncanny issue 14 is up now, and includes Theodora Goss’ “To Budapest, With Love” in among all the other fine, brave offerings. I single this one out because I read it for the...
View ArticleReading Cassandra Khaw for UNCANNY
It’s no secret that I read poems and stories for Uncanny magazine‘s monthly podcast. I love doing it, not least because in months heavy with other kinds of work it feels really good to know that I’m...
View ArticleMax and Amal Go to the Movies
(We didn’t take the swords to the movies.) One of the stretch goals for Uncanny‘s Year 2 Kickstarter campaign was a movie column by Max Gladstone and me, in which we chat about a film we’ve seen...
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