![]() ![]() ![]() I like that tactic as we have to really follow all the clues to understand where we are and what is happening. In “Kamanti’s Child” Jennifer Marie Brissett drops us in media res in an alien battle between two races. It is an elegiac story told at the pace of the elderly and is a beautiful miniature of his life. This story is a day in his life as he putters around town feeding his neighbor’s dog, and checking his garden. In any case, the librarian – an old man – is left completely alone in a small village with no electricity, internet or telephone. The protagonist, the local librarian, states that before the BBC went completely off the air it commented that no virus or plague seemed to be the cause. Paul Cornell has written one of Britain’s “cozy catastrophes” in “Don’t You Worry, You Aliens.” In fact the catastrophe is never explained. By this small taste I can tell that the editors favor good writing and well-crafted prose. This is my first read of this magazine and I am impressed. Here’s Bob Blough from his Tangent Online review, with some high praise for the stories within. The November/December issue of Uncanny is all about alien invasions and fairy tales. ![]()
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