Uncanny Magazine Issue 5 (July/August 2015) by Michael Damian Thomas (editor) and Lynne M. Thomas (editor)
Publisher: Uncanny Magazine
Publication Date: July 2, 2015
Edition: Kindle, 179 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Online-Magazine
Rating: 4/5
Another great issue!
Backcover:
The July/August 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring all–new short fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal, E. Lily Yu, Shveta Thakrar, Charlie Jane Anders, Sarah Monette, and Delilah S. Dawson, classic fiction by Scott Lynch, nonfiction by Natalie Luhrs, Sofia Samatar, Michael R. Underwood, and Caitlín Rosberg, poems by C. S. E. Cooney, Bryan Thao Worra, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with E. Lily Yu and Delilah S. Dawson, and Antonio Caparo’s Companion Devices on the cover.
All that plus two podcasts!
Episode 5A: Editors’ Introduction, Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Midnight Hour” (as read by Amal El–Mohtar), C.S.E. Cooney’s “The Saga of Captain Jens” (as read by the author), and an interview with Mary Robinette Kowal conducted by Deborah Stanish.
Episode 5B: Editors’ Introduction, Charlie Jane Anders’s “Ghost Champagne” (as read by C.S.E. Cooney), Sonya Taaffe’s “Σειρήνοιϊν” (as read by Amal El–Mohtar), and interviews.
*** I’m one of those people who leaves a number of tabs open in a number of different windows, and then sometimes forgets which tab is in which window. The tab for this review – which I wrote last night (8/30) – was buried in one of the windows that I closed. Didn’t notice that until I went to edit it tonight (8/31) and there was NOTHING; reloaded the previous close windows and still nope; no previous restored or saved draft; just the blank outline.
I am sorry, but at 9 p.m. I do not have the energy to go back and write the full reviews for all these stories again, so all of these are going to be very brief 2 or 3 sentences. Sorry again for this ***
FICTION
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4/5 Rating
-DJ
I couldn’t agree more about reading poems (especially C.S.E. Cooney’s in this issue) aloud. In fact, she does so in Uncanny Magazine Podcast ep 5A–twice!
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Thanks for the comment, Erika! 🙂
I think it’s all the alliterations that I liked so much about it. And I always check out the podcasts! Don’t usually listen to the stories, but yes the poems. Always interesting to compare my speed and what words I emphases compared to her and other narrators’ readings.
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I should read more of these magazines. Problem is, I’m not a big reader of short stories to begin with, and I have no interest in content like essays, poetry, interviews and such. The couple of issues I’ve tried here and there I’ve enjoyed though, like from Apex, etc.
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Isn’t it weird how somehow reading short stories is so different from novels? My trick is to read them between novels. Works perfect for when I finish a book in the morning or afternoon, and still want to read, but not ready to commit to the next book.
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You haven’t read Lynch before?!?! 😮 How can this be?! (I’m only half kidding, he’s probably my all-time favourite fantasy writer – along with Patrick Rothfuss.) He is the king of amazing language and VERY colourful curse words. I want to translate his work so badly! It would be the biggest challenge ever but so, so good.
I don’t often read short stories and novellas, I prefer longer texts. But I’ve read some pretty great ones, just not fantasy…
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No, you should translate his work! That’s so cool! That what I wanted to do with my Latin- translate A Song of Ice and Fire into Latin. Unlike mine though, I feel like your language of translate will have market for people to buy. Just start with this shorty story by him and see how it sells 🙂
And, I think this fantasy short story might be one you’d like: http://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-year-and-a-day-in-old-theradane/ 🙂
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Thanks for the link! I didn’t know the story was available online! 🙂 I started reading it and it’s like the Lynch who wrote The Lies of Locke Lamora took some funny mushrooms and drank too much coffee and had a huge sugar-rush from too many donuts 😀 It’s great but also quite different from his other writing!
Well, book publishing is a bit more involved than just translating things, unfortunately – things like rights are too complicated if you’re not already an established publisher. I’m trying to get an editor colleague of mine to consider his work, I hope she’ll go for it!
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Uncanny release all their stories for free on their site. It’s a new issue every 2 months so they release half the material each month.
Ha ha! Yeah, it is a weirddddd story, but it was hilarious and simply fantastic!
I can imagine all the legal hoops you probably have to go through with getting a translated work published. But you never know? How cool would it be to say you translated one of his stories!?
I hope your colleague will allow you to translate their work 🙂 I’m assuming it’s YA?
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Naw, I’m talking about Lynch’s work, I’m trying to get an editor to publish Lynch in Slovenian! 🙂 I know it’s a long shot but I have to try, I really love his work.
I’ll have to click around the site a bit, it looks like fun – thanks for pointing it out to me!
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Oh!!! That is incredibly awesome! Now I really really really hope your editor goes with it! Let me know how it goes 🙂
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I’d love to start reading this, I do love supporting small presses, but I barely have time to read books, so maybe in the future! I’m happy to see some names I recognize, though:-)
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It’s surprising how much effort I actually have to put in to read these everything two month. 800 page novel? No problem; 5 short stories every 2 months? I don’t know, that a big commitment XD
Every month they have had an amazing lineup of authors. Next year’s is looking just as promising too.
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