Uncanny is a new science fiction/fantasy magazine that’s just launched their first issue:
Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard, Max Gladstone, Amelia Beamer, Ken Liu, and Christopher Barzak, classic fiction by Jay Lake, essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Christopher J Garcia, plus a Worldcon Roundtable featuring Emma England, Michael Lee, Helen Montgomery, Steven H Silver, and Pablo Vazquez, poetry by Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley, Deborah Stanish, Beth Meacham on Jay Lake, and Christopher Barzak, and a cover by Galen Dara.
Looks good and it’ll be available for free online as well for those with less money to spent on sf magazines. These can be a real crapshoot in terms of overall quality and of course a launch issue will be putting its best foot forward, so it depends on whether you trust the people behind it. At the very least, they do pay their writers.
We do seem to be a new golden age for short science fiction, with a great many interesting and strong online magazines already existing. It’ll be hard for Uncanny to find its place amongst them, but I wish them the best.
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