Uncanny Magazine Issue 42

Uncanny Magazine Issue 42 September/October 2021

The September/October 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Aliette de Bodard, Betsy Aoki, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, P. Djèlí Clark, Kristiana Willsey, Rachael K. Jones, and Eugenia Triantafyllou. Essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Ada Palmer, and Shiv Ramdas, poetry by Chiara Situmorang, Avi Silver, Uche Ogbuji, and Kristian Macaron, interviews with Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
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Sarah Escorsa@shrimpy
4 stars
Mar 8, 2022

“If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark. It's Shrimpalicious Quick Maths (SQM™) time again! Yay! Science-fiction meets fantasy meets streampunk meets voodoo + non-Eurocentric as fish setting + djinns + 3-in-1 martians (don't ask) + sentient, speaking camels + Haitian loas + tasty magic + giant winged ocelots and giganormous octopi lookalikes (I'm in 💕lurve💕) + P. Djèlí Clark's downright magical talent for creating the most lusciously delicious, spellbinding worlds = let's dance the night away and stuff. ↪ This is short. This is FREE. This is here. Read it you must and stuff. [Pre-review nonsense] P. Djèlí Clark, thou sure hast done it again. Bliss is me and stuff. ➽ Review to come and stuff. [Oct. 7, 2021] There's a brand new P. Djèlí Clark story in this issue!!!! And you can read it online for free here!!!! Yay and stuff!!