Loved! My favorite parts of this issue included:Fiction:"And Yet" by A. T. Greenblatt, "The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth" by Sarah Monette, "Old Habits" by Nalo Hopkinson.Nonfiction :"How to Talk to Ghosts" by R.F. Kuang (Seriously go read this now - it was amazing). Poetry "The Sea Never Says It Loves You" by Fran Wilde and "The Fairies in the Crawlspace" by Beth Cato

I Frequently Hear Music In The Very Heart Of Noise - Sarah Pinsker ***And Yet - AT Greenblatt ***Like A River Loves The Sky - Emma Törzs ***The Testimony Of Dragon's Teeth - Sarah Monette ***Pistol Grip - Vina Jie-Min Prasad **The Howling Detective - Brandon O'Brien ***Old Habits - Nalo Hopkinson ****

4.5 stars for this short story, another in the current crop of Nebula award nominees. It's free online here at Uncanny magazine. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:Armed with a doctorate in theoretical physics, you return to the house that haunted your youth since you were a bullied eight-year-old child, determined to wrest the truth and some measure of peace from this menacing house. It’s a place where pocket universes collide: its rooms contain scenes from your past ― a mother wh...

***And Yet by A.T. Greenblatt*** Only idiots go back to the haunted houses of their childhood. And yet. You‘re a 28 year old physicist specializing in quantum mechanics and multiverse theory, returning to that haunted house full of pocket universes, 20 years on from that one fateful day of your childhood, when your brother had that terrible accident.After all those years you came back, looking for a groundbreaking scientific discovery. You might find something else. The secrets of the univer...

A very disappointing issue overall, somewhat redeemed by Sarah Pinsker's fantasia on the New York Music scene in the 20th century. It's a thrilling work of speculative literature but it is debatable whether it is exactly a work of SFF. I was really let down by the rest of the issue. My hopes were up when I saw Sarah Monette and Vine Jie-Min Prasad had contributed, but both authors produced puzzlingly mediocre offerings.

Review (for the moment) solely for R.F. Kuang's essay on Chinese ghosts, or gui, who are victims of bad deaths: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/h... She writes of the Red Chinese campaign against ghosts, saying the Party is "terrified of superstition." She moves on to academic-style comments on "Hauntology", as popularized by Jacques Derrida in "Spectres de Marx", which argues that the ghost of Marxism will still shake the world even after the fall of Marxist states. Kuang: "My parents tried...

Review for: And Yet by A. T. Greenblatt, 4.620 words, ~10 pages, ★★★¾☆“Only idiots go back to the haunted houses of their childhood. And yet.“A Haunted House. Or rather a house with doors leading to parallel universes. Lovely ending, but generally not my kind of thing.2018 Nebula Award Finalists / Short Story Can be read for free here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a...Author‘s website: https://atgreenblatt.comUpdate May 2019: Fixed merged review.

Individual ratings:"Like a River Loves the Sky" by Emma Törzs ** (what's the story? Ending came out of nowhere.)"I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise" by Sarah Pinsker ** (not sure why this is fiction)"And Yet" by A. T. Greenblatt *** (interesting)"Pistol Grip" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad * (disappointing)"How to Talk to Ghosts" by R.F. Kuang **** (familiar yet has a poignant message)

Not a review. Includes my poem "Fairies in the Crawlspace."

This review is on for the story ""And Yet" by A. T. Greenblatt. This short story is so good. A young person with a doctorate in theoretical physics enters a haunted house that terrified them and changed their life forever when they were a child. The writing is superb. It demands your attention. The concept is great. The author does so much world building in such a short time. The characters are so well formed, so vibrant. Yes, yes and yes. After sharing this story I realized that the author neve...

Absolutely loved it. Even though it was written in second person. Done VERY well. 5 stars!

A wonderfully weird yet captivating short story.(Free on the Uncanny Magazine website.)

Alright, issue 21 of Uncanny, the March and April issue of 2018. Once again a rather average issue. The stories I liked were:Old Habits by Nalo HopkinsonLike a River Loves the Sky by Emma TorzsBut my favorite story of this issue was: And Yet by A.T. Greenblatt

This is one of the Uncanny issues I've had sitting on my Kindle, waiting for me to read them. I just did, and enjoyed it very much.I don't have a short story brain, so sometimes I just don't get a story. That happened a few times here, but I lay that more at my door than that of the author. There were also others I really enjoyed.My favourite pieces in the edition were the non-fiction piece by R. F. Kuang called How to Talk to Ghosts in which she talks about how history haunts us and her inspira...

POEMS POEMS POEMS (/◕ヮ◕)/ Seriously, why don't I read poetry more often? I've read so many poems this weekend and I have missed poetry. *chef's kiss*I'm slowly working my way through these, so I'll update the review as I read more. :) June 2020 'Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed' by Cassandra Khaw was absolutely breath-taking. The Greeks believedthat a human beingis one entity unseamed at the spine,opened at the breastbone, parted atthe lips, which is why we spend all our...

This is just, at least right now, about the Vina Jie-Min Prasad' short story "Pistol Grip" . (Though I do mean to read more of the stories in this issue, just not all at once and want to write down impressions while I still remember well what I read."Pistol Grip" is about two war robots and their relationship, while they are fighting decommissioning (or at least getting revenge on those responsible or maybe it is just a killing spree, maybe) from the PoV of the slowest (dumbest, yeah) one. The p...

After earning a doctorate in theoretical physics, the narrator returns to the haunted house of his youth which has always stayed in his mind. As a bullied eight-year old, it had terrified him but maybe now he can pin down the truth of it. This is creepy, occasionally disturbing little story about the kinds of fears you have as a child and facing both that and the new ones as you grow older. And about the kinds of choices you might make if you could. It's intriguing even if the ending felt a bit

This was a strikingly personal, but intense story. The second person is a narration that has been growing on me for a while and it seems to shape this narrative even more so. Loved the twists and turns and family drama. The protagonist really becomes a cornerstone of the story and it all comes together for a full arc by the end. Recommended.

Once more, this is definitely a mixed bag, although I enjoyed it more than Issue 18 and I don't think it was because I didn't pay for this one. In terms of the fiction, there are some amazingly strong pieces here... but there are also some which are just weird or uninteresting. My favourite would have to be The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth which is a wonderful tale of witchcraft and darkness in a contemporary setting. Close contenders however would be Like a River Loves the Sky, Old Habits and Th...

Not adding a star rating, as I'm only commenting on one story I read rather than the whole issue."Testimony of Dragon's Teeth" is the newest Booth story, and honestly one of my favorites. It's short, tight, entirely about envy, and sort of has a breakthrough moment for Booth in his ability to understand not just how he (doesn't) relate to other people, but how other people do relate to him. (Even if he continues to believe he's weak-willed). Really strong work. ...And now I have to wait for more...