Uncanny Magazine Issue 67: November/December 2025

Uncanny Magazine #67

by Michael Damian Thomas, Sarah Pinsker, Natalia Theodoridou

The November/December 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Natalia Theodoridou, Ana Hurtado, Rati Mehrotra, Eleanna Castroianni, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Russell Nichols; essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Mari Ness, Jordan Shiveley, and Marissa Lingen; poetry by Somto Ihezue, Romie Stott, Angel Leal, and Hannan Khan; interviews with Natalia Theodoridou and Eleanna Castroianni by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Paul Lewin’s Mushroom Mother of Us All as the cover; and an editorial by Michael Damian Thomas.

217 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2025

About the author

Michael Damian Thomas is the two-time Hugo and Parsec Award-winning co-publisher and co-editor-in-chief of Uncanny Magazine with his wife, Lynne M. Thomas. In this role, he has also been a finalist twice for the World Fantasy Award and a finalist for a Locus Award. Michael was a two-time Hugo Award finalist as the former Managing Editor of Apex Magazine (2012-2013), co-edited the Hugo Award finalist essay anthology Queers Dig Time Lords (Mad Norwegian Press, 2013) with Sigrid Ellis, and co-edited the anthology Glitter & Mayhem (Apex Publications, 2013) with John Klima and Lynne M. Thomas. He has also worked as an Associate Editor on numerous books at Mad Norwegian Press, including the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords (edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea, 2010) and Hugo Award finalist Chicks Dig Comics (edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Sigrid Ellis, 2012). Michael was additionally a contributor to the SF Squeecast podcast (with Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente) and was a contributor to the Down and Safe- Blake’s 7 podcast (with Amal El-Mohtar, Scott Lynch, and L.M. Myles).

Michael lives in DeKalb, IL, with his wife Lynne, their daughter Caitlin, and a cat named Marie. Caitlin has a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi syndrome, and Michael works as her primary caregiver.

Reviews

[Lynn Reynolds · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Millay Illusion & The Teleporting Disaster Fairy were fantastic stories!

[Jackie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved The Teleporting Disaster Fairy

[Dana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I backed this on Kickstarter, so I received the issue in advance of publication as part of the campaign.

All of the stories are worth reading, but I particularly enjoyed “The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” by Rati Mehrotra and “To Speak in Silence” by Mary Robinette Kowal.

[Esther · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me a lot longer to read this than expected but I did enjoy it and its associated podcast episodes. In fiction, I particularly enjoyed ‘Thicker’ by Eleanna Catroianni and ‘To Speak in Silence’ by Mary Robbinette Kowal. In non fiction, I enjoyed Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s essay and the interview with Catroianni.