The 63rd issue of Uncanny Magazine, winner of seven Hugos, plus a British Fantasy Award, a Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, will be available on March 4 at uncannymagazine.com. 

Hugo Award-winning Publishers Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the 63rd issue of their seven-time Hugo Award-winning online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Uncanny Magazine. Stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. As always, Uncanny features passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture, along with a Parsec Award-winning monthly podcast featuring a story, poem, and interview from that issue. 

All of Uncanny Magazine’s content will be available in eBook versions on the day of release from Weightless Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo. Subscriptions are always available through Weightless Books. The free online content will be released in 2 stages — half on day of release and half on April 1. 

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 63 Table of Contents:

Cover

• Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

Editorial

• “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction

• “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills (3/4)
• “Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson (3/4)
• “Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down” by Wen-yi Lee (3/4)

• “The Prodigal Mother” (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster) by Charlie Jane Anders (4/1)
• “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (4/1)
• “The Island with the Animals” by Stephanie Malia Morris (4/1)
• “Unbury” by Kirsty Logan (4/1)

• “Infinite Halves” by J.L. Akagi (3/4)

Essays

• “Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality” by John Wiswell (3/4)
• “Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character Interactions and Mixed Reality Storytelling” by Angela Liu (3/4)

• “Ncuti to the Moon Take Two: Reflecting on the Fifteenth Doctor’s First Season” by Amanda-Rae Prescott (4/1)
• “Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned about Worldbuilding from Imagineers” by J.R. Dawson (4/1)

Poetry

• “The Birds” by Rafiat Lamidi (3/4)
• “the bud of a dead dream” by Ai Jiang (3/4)

• “Time loop for the day I die.” by Abdulrazaq Salihu (4/1)
• “Red-Coded and Weary” by Lesley Hart Gunn (4/1)

Interviews

• Wen-yi Lee interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/4)

• Eugenia Triantafyllou interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (4/1)

Podcasts

• Episode 63A (3/4): Editors’ Introduction; “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills, as read by Erika Ensign; “Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson, as read by Erika Ensign; “The Birds” by Rafiat Lamidi, as read by Matt Peters; and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Samantha Mills.

• Episode 63B (4/1): Editors’ Introduction; “The Island with the Animals” by Stephanie Malia Morris, as read by Matt Peters; “Time loop for the day I die.” by Abdulrazaq Salihu, as read by Matt Peters; and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Stephanie Malia Morris.