An Unlikely Interview with Rhonda Eikamp

Monday, July 14, 2014

The imagery of human hearts with maps in them is quite striking and lovely. Where did the idea for this central theme in The Occluded come from? Though I hate to admit, it came from binge-watching House MD. I’d been thinking about Unlikely Story’s…

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Unlikely Story Goes to Readercon

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Unlikely Story is going to Readercon! On Sunday, July 13, several of the authors featured in Unlikely Story #9: The Journal of Unlikely Cartography will be discussing maps and imaginary geography. Sunday — 1:00 PM — G — Unlikely Cartography. Shira Lipkin, Sarah Pinsker,…

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An Unlikely Interview with Carrie Cuinn

Monday, July 7, 2014

How to Recover a Relative Lost During Transmatter Shipping, In Five Easy Steps, seems like one of those titles just begging for a story, so which came first, the story or the title? They both popped into existence at the same time. I knew,…

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An Unlikely Interview with Sarah Pinsker

Monday, June 30, 2014

How a Map Works features at least two instances of characters trying to describe a concept like ‘map’ or ‘mountain’ to someone with absolutely no frame of reference for understanding the object being described. This leads to a lovely moment between your main character…

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An Unlikely Interview with Kelda Crich

Monday, May 5, 2014

In the spirit of our issue of deliberately terrible fiction, we asked our authors some deliberately terrible questions. Luckily, they were kind enough to play along. Here’s what Kelda Crich, author of All Flesh is Grass had to say… Where do you get your…

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