Strange Horizons, March 2026 “Bitter as the Sea” unfolds as an epistolary novelette set in 1883, structured around a layered, increasingly unstable correspondence between a woman who signs herself Francesca…
Reactor, March 2026 In the interstellar war between the nation-states of Hausse and Lyonesse, spacecraft have long been piloted by “deuces” — artificial intelligences so costly to develop and integrate…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 Braden, a farmer, is in the middle of an ordinary chore — shouldering a bag of seed corn from truck to shed — when an alien vessel…
Introduction Angela Liu's short story "What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom," published in Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Nine (2026), is a formally restrained yet emotionally…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 A woman and her husband discover a two-foot circular hole in their bathroom wall, emanating cold wind that smells of wet soil and river water. Their argument…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 In a near-future world where superhumans exist alongside ordinary people, a viral app called The Dare quietly rewires the relationship between spectacle, power, and collective action. Every…
A Critical Academic Review Introduction Sunwoo Jeong's novelette "Permanent Press," published in Uncanny (Issue Sixty-Nine, March/April 2026), arrives as a formally inventive work from a writer already recognized in speculative…
Introduction Theodora Goss's short story "The Woman Who Stole Flowers," published in Uncanny Magazine Issue 69 (March/April 2026), arrives as a characteristic expression of her mature literary project: the recuperation…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 The story is narrated by an American academic on sabbatical in Budapest, researching changes in the Hungarian educational system in the post-Soviet era. One spring morning, she…
Uncanny, March/April 2026 At the heart of the story is a neighborhood laundry-mat run by the stingy Mr. Lee, whose flickering neon sign alternates between two spellings—LA NDRY and L…