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A Scifi and Fantasy Idea
Far in the future, to avoid Entropy and Heat-Death, Humanity has uploaded themselves onto the fabric of space-time itself; “beneath” the quantum field. Effectively gods, so ancient that many of them have lived more in millenia than the universe in modern times have existed in seconds, creating matter and energy through manipulating the quantum layer.
There is only one question left that science has been unable to answer: What will the next universe be like? It has already been confirmed that they will survive a big bang going off, and will survive no matter what alternate physics will be in play, but how it will turn out is completely unable to be predicted.
After aeons of waiting, when the universe has been dead many millions of times longer than it was ever alive in the first place the time finally comes, and a new Big Bang occurs. Humanity collectively watch in anticipation, and then:
They get a front-row seat to an Overgod creating a High-Fantasy D&D-esque cosmology multiverse, complete with Gods, Magic, Elemental, Astral Planes and Far Realms. And they have no idea how any of it works. But Humanity knows one thing. THEY WANT TO KNOW ALL THE THINGS!
How does a ludicrously advanced sci-fi human civilization of might-as-well-be Space!gods and a D&D-like High Fantasy cosmology react to each other?
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ID: Cover for current issue of Uncanny Magazine, issue 46, with “Wall of Roses” cover art by Elaine Ho.
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ID: The story quote: “There’s a woman outside of a town called Sheridan, where the sky comes so near to earth it has to use the crosswalk just like everybody else.” Quote from “The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente in Issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Paul Lewin.
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ID: The story quote: “One autumn as the wind blew cold
and stripped red leaves from branches
Fair Ellen ran to meet her love
Where oaken hearts do gather” Quote from “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker in Issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Paul Lewin.
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ID: The story quote: “He met his father’s eyes. ‘Hey.’
His father smiled ruefully. 'Hey.’
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ID: The story quote: “That’s what all of this was about—why she’d canceled morning classes and now rushed to a meeting to which she wasn’t invited. Because someone had to speak for the unknowable in magic, the non-linear, the indefinable. Someone had to save her Martians.” Quote from “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark in Issue 42 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Julie Dillon.
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ID: The story quote: “Everything Anton owns goes in one black trash bag. His ratty yellow sketchpad, which he bought to draw the other familiars when he moved here, and only ever used three pages of.” Quote from “That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell in Issue 43 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Grace P. Fong.
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ID: The story quote: “A week before the Season began, as Mrs. Vanessa Saunders held brunch court at the Empire Hotel, a photo appeared on her phone: a large oak door beneath a pale green sign with silver lettering.” Quote from “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde in Issue 40 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Galen Dara.
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ID: Uncanny 46 Elaine Ho cover titled “Wall of Roses”
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ID: “I know what I’ve seen of blood & death—what the night forgets
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Congratulations to P. Djèlí Clark! “If the Martians Have Magic” is an Ignyte Awards finalist for Best Short Story! Read it here: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/if-the-martians-have-magic/
ID: “That’s what all of this was about—why she’d canceled morning classes and now rushed to a meeting to which she wasn’t invited. Because someone had to speak for the unknowable in magic, the non-linear, the indefinable. Someone had to save her Martians.” Quote from “If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark in Issue 42 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Julie Dillon.
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ID: “I do not want to be the art, I want to be the artist. There are women who manage to do both, yet I hear them so often described as models who paint—and this despite the fact that their talent far outstrips the men…” Quote from “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim in Issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Paul Lewin.
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ID: “’Grandson.’ Bhimasen lays a heavy, battle-scarred hand upon Barbareek’s luxurious curls. ‘How are you?’ Still decapitated, thanks for asking, Barbareek nearly says.” Quote from “Eighteen Days of Barbareek” by Rati Mehrotra in Issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Paul Lewin.
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ID: Cover art for Uncanny Magazine Issue 45 (March/April 2022), titled “Habitation” by Paul Lewin
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ID: "One autumn as the wind blew cold
and stripped red leaves from branches
Fair Ellen ran to meet her love
Where oaken hearts do gather". Quote from “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker in Issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Paul Lewin.
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Congratulations to Catherynne M. Valente! “The Sin of America” is a Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story! Read it here: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-sin-of-america/
ID: "There’s a woman outside of a town called Sheridan, where the sky comes so near to earth it has to use the crosswalk just like everybody else.“ Quote from “The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente in Issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Paul Lewin.
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Congratulations to José Pablo Iriarte! “Proof by Induction” is a Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story! Read it here: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/proof-by-induction/
ID: "He met his father’s eyes. ‘Hey.'His father smiled ruefully. 'Hey.“Are you—’'Dead?’ His father gestured toward the inactive monitors. 'Apparently so.’” Quote from “Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte in Issue 40 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Galen Dara.
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