Thia Reads A Lot’s Reviews > Uncanny Magazine Issue 62: January/February 2025 > Status Update

Everything You Didn't Know You Needed to Know about Writing Swords: good essay, I would have liked it to be a bit longer, with more examples maybe

Accessibility Toolkit for When Things Go Wrong: good list of possible scenarios about accessability

The Flaming Embusen: 3* Inspector Jero is sent to investigate an incident involving two autonomous spaceships Embusen and BurningNitel. The pentagrams (souls/cores) decided to join together and sold themselves to pirates. The gates the ships belong to thinks differently about the pentagrams (equipment vs person).

With Her Serpent Locks: 4.0* One of Medusa's sisters made her home on a distant planet. Zeus comes to visit her with the head of Medusa. She tricks him and turns him to stone since on that planet he is not a god.

Interview: Rati Mehrotra Good interview, on the shorter side. The gibberish entry is actually coded...

Cassandra: not rating poetry but I liked this one. A woman is having a conversation-of-sorts with one of her sons after being killed by the other. Time is non linear.

Men with Tails: 2* Simi is a forty-ish y.o. woman whose husband Dead died a year ago. Simi thinks he is still there, there are noise in his room and she sees a weird creature at night. She has a mental breakdown at the end? Her mother proposes going on vacation once she is better.

Love Letter in Cobra Pose: not rating poetry. Went over my head completely

Interview: Scott Lynch: good interview, many projects on the go. "Oh, and my country’s lost its fucking mind again. I look forward to surviving that, hopefully."

Kaiju Agonistes: 3* Seed-planters (aliens) sent a watchseed to lay dormant on Earth until the first nuclear event (1946-ish). Messenger grows, the russians pretend to have it under control. It sustains damage from the US, disappears to reconstruct, returns twice before trying to talk to humans. A woman from New York proposes it involves itself with money. Nixon finally joins in in 1984.