Recent Reviews

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Unlikely Story #11: The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography has been getting some nice buzz lately. For your convenience, we’ve gathered up some recent reviews. Congratulations to all our authors! SFRevu and Quick Sip Reviews both cover the entire issue of Unlikely Story #11. In…

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An Unlikely Interview with Curtis C. Chen

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The character of Margaret Fisher in It’s Machine Code is slightly reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (except on the other side of the law), the sweet, little old lady no one suspects, and thus everyone overlooks. Could you tell us a bit about…

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An Unlikely Interview with Levi Sable

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The idea of knitting code, which is central to Dropped Stitches, is a fascinating one. Are you a knitter? Could you tell us a bit about where the inspiration for the story came from, and how it developed? I am a devoted ex-knitter. My…

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It’s Not Just Entertainment

Monday, February 23, 2015

There are a lot of reasons why we started Unlikely Story. Many of them were self-oriented (“This will be fun!”; “This will improve my writing!”; “This will help me understand the Other Side! (i.e. why editors and publishers make incomprehensible decisions like rejecting my…

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An Unlikely Interview with Lauren C. Teffeau

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

There’s a very visual, cinematic quality to Jump Cut, which is appropriate for a story about using film sequences as a drug, and you shared a Pinterest board on Twitter of images you drew on in writing the story. Do you gather pictures as…

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