After The Hum became silent, many of the Pylon People who had spent years following below its electric ley, went to live in canal boats on the cut. Often they moored close if not below transmission towers. Still at the ragged margins, waiting for The Hum to return. Waiting to march to again.
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, "Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "I enter this forest with immolation whatever touches me become ashes or loses a layer of itself. I am not the bad guy. I just want to see the sun of her eyes again. the distance to your heart"
Congratulations to Gospel Chinedu!
Gospel Chinedu's poem "Post-apocalypse Love Poem" is on the Rhysling longlist!
You can read it here!
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An arch that says SPQR and a stone water fountain made of stone books and a stag's head.
#SomethingBeautiful the book fountain in Rome, where I was yesterday
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, "Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland. We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken"
Congratulations to Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!
Angela Liu's poem "The Mourning Robot" is on the Rhysling longlist!
You can read it here!
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Goodnight from Lucas Bradley, carefully making dust sigils as he beds down for another night of rough sleeping in the crypt of St. Brewald’s. Goodnight from Stedman’s Scrapyard, where cars protest the crusher in rust rasp voices and metal screams into the wind. Goodnight from Hookland.
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 62, “Mermay - Golden Hour" by Maxine Vee: In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The quote reads: "Hence, a watchseed, with the best of intentions. Let’s give the seed-planters that much. They mean well. Crawling from star to star at not-quite-c, they make their surveys, consult their charts, launch a seed now and then. Old thinkers, they make an endless circuit of the galaxy on behalf of young thinkers."
ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards?
Try the novelette "Kaiju Agonistes" by Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social!
It is in the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
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Bookmarking
Lydian Kind's poem "ACCESS DENIED" is an unusual look at Rapunzel's story.
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 65, “The Duet" by Nilah Magruder: Two women sit at a piano. One is wearing a lilac dress with a locket around her neck, her skin is a dark shade and her hair white. Next to her, the second woman is wearing a red dress, and has black hair worn up in a bun-like style. Her head and hand are not attached to her body, giving the impression that she is not human but a robot of some kind. Both are smiling as they play together. The quote reads: "There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my bell and found me perfectly awake, swinging back and forth on a hanging sweetheart bench with a faded pink and yellow tulip pattern on the cushion."
ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards?
Try the novelette "When He Calls Your Name" by Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social!
It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List and placed 1st on the Uncanny Poll!
You can read it here!
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Finally can announce *this* is the secret project I've been working on for the past two years or so ^^
Hi! I'm a setting and narrative-focused freelance TTRPG writer. I'd be happy to join the rolodex.
A bunny sea captain and a young sailor watch from the side of the boat, where a school of flying fish are 'flying' near the side of their boat
Daily bunny no.3254 sees something off the starboard bow
"I would like to throw the concept of low stakes and high stakes into the nearest volcano and never speak of these concepts again. Rather, I would like to talk about stakes that are near or far."
Here's my latest newsletter! buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light. So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.
nobel prize. right fucking now. im serious.
We have an exclusive cover reveal to share with you today - THE RAVEN AND THE REINDEER, the upcoming fairy tale retelling from T. Kingfisher due to be release 1st September from Titan Books!
Cover art by Natasha MacKenzie
Find out more here: tinyurl.com/3y7wewh8
@titanbooks.bsky.social
The generation ship Adams sails through the endless ocean of space protected by a forcefield scoop that surrounds it in a white-blue halo. It glides serenely through the abyss, lonely but powerful. Inside it is a powder keg, ruled by a tyrannical Captain and a crew stirring like mad ants. With just that information, can you foresee divine intervention two galaxies away?
Consider the (infinite and infinitesimal) possibilities in @jaydeholmes.bsky.social's fun new flash story "Anything Not Impossible."
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Goodnight from The Old Ferry pub, where Paul Hardy is having another pint rather than risking rain and rumours of Empress Eel swimming the flooded lanes. Goodnight from Ellen Wulford, stitching shadows into her coat with a needle made from fox-bone. Goodnight from Hookland.
a fierce and deadly black kitten with green eyes, sitting on a ttrpg character sheet for a star trek game. under her little paws are the terms charge, hidden 1; unarmed strike; and knockdown, nonlethal
Also @nathanburgoine.bsky.social Franca jumped up on the table and I just managed to get this shot of her sitting on my character sheet 😂
Goodnight from Sian Tapper, increasingly irritated that the ghost in her room has nothing better to do than wind her music box at random hours in the night. Goodnight from Andy Bail, suffering as the shrapnel in his leg attempts to align with True Faery North. Goodnight from Hookland.
Izzy Wasserstein
New poem! "The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement" by Izzy Wasserstein! buff.ly/8i2dAce
I've finished a new Dancy Flammarion novelette, "Gethsemane," to be released later this year by Subterranean Press as a small hardback. Illustrator to be announced (the below illustration was done by Steve Leiber for the Dark Horse Alabaster comic). This is my first Dancy story since 2019.
A bunny witch peers into a cauldron, in a tower at night. On the surface of the water in the cauldron, a bunny adventuring party is trekking through the forest. The bunny witch watches the adventurers nefariously
Daily bunny no.3250 is watching your every move
Image reads "Horror Movie Actor Possessed For Real This Time" with a photograph of a menacing-looking priest
Hello I have written a weird story about moss
You know that feeling of pawing through a good book?
We love how "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" by Ken Liu expands and explores how books go beyond the human experience into something more. We love the more.
You can find it over at Lightspeed Magazine.
A bunny with a small camera stares surprisedly at a fox, who proudly has a fish it caught in its mouth. They are in the woods
Daily bunny no.3268 is proud of your achievement
Live in BCS #451 Science-Fantasy Month 8: "To Atone for Evil" by @meganflchee.bsky.social Chee “If I were in her position, I would do anything for a chance to fly again. Isn’t that what you were trying to teach me? That thing you call empathy?”" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-a...
Short Story
“In My Country.” Clarkesworld Magazine. April 2025 (6300 words).
A father of a writer expresses concerns about his son's cryptic stories.
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