by A. T. Greenblatt in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Okay, this rogue robot recovery gig is getting old and I’m saying this as the tech geek of the team. So that should tell you something about our situation. I mean, it’s not like the hacker is trying to steal different robots every time—it’s always a Commando 237X, which also happens to be like one […]
by A. Merc Rustad in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Kaityn Falk loves the dark phase of the moon. It’s quiet. Soothing. Insulated in their spacesuit, comm dimmed, Kaityn sits in the rover and watches the sky. Here on Io 7, a newly discovered satellite in retrograde orbit around a dwarf planet the size of Pluto, they are the only living human in several thousand lightyears. […]
by SL Huang in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
“On the bright side,” said Zara, poking at his glasses a week before, “this means you get new eyes.” But I don’t want new eyes, he thought. The surgery isn’t bad, as surgeries go. The one he had when he busted his knee ten years ago, as a teen, was much worse. Or maybe it […]
by A. J. Hackwith in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
(Content Note: This essay depicts the visceral experience of a panic attack, dissociative experiences, and discusses incidents of suicide and self-harm in the movie Inception, which may be disturbing for some readers.) It is 2 a.m. and the dragon says my marriage is ending. It’s right. I know it with a certainty. Like the shuddering […]
by John Wiswell in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
It’s the middle of the big Wakanda fight scene. Thor and Captain America banter about haircuts, M’Baku and Okoye crack skulls, and for a moment, Rocket Raccoon meets James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes. The audience is ready to laugh the second the raccoon eyes up the veteran. They know what’s coming. Rocket compliments Bucky’s prosthetic arm, […]
by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
The notes that I wrote myself when I started the journey of editing Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction are clear. The words I gave myself were about envisioning a future free from eugenics, about confronting the implicit biases of our genre, and I’m pleased to say the authors in the nonfiction section have torn those […]
by S. Qiouyi Lu in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
I am multiply marginalized: I am a person of color; I am queer; I am nonbinary; I am disabled. So it’s not surprising that I talk about marginalization and identity a lot, as they affect my life in big and small ways. The common thread that appears in discussions I have within various communities about […]
by Fran Wilde in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
In September 2017, Uncanny Magazine published my short story, “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand.” It’s a story that deals with being different and disabled in the first person, and in some particularly angry ways. Afterwards, I had some interesting conversations about why I wrote it in the first person. The comments included: The […]
by Dominik Parisien in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Disabled people are here, now. We are everywhere. Based off the media we encounter and consume, that might not be readily apparent. The system fails us. Our bodies and our persons are so often misrepresented, shut down, shut out. Our stories are so rarely told. When we put up the call for submissions for Disabled […]
by Judith Tarr in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
The easiest part of being Reprints Editor is knowing that other editors have loved all the submissions, and each one has passed that first (or second or third) set of eyes before it came to me. It’s also the hardest part. So many wonderful stories. So much lovely writing, strong characterization, ingenious worldbuilding. And I […]
by Zaynab Shahar in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Last year, my queer platonic partner gifted me the graphic novel version of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. For us, this gift served as the meeting place of our passions—a book that bridges her love of comics and graphic novels with my love of gut-wrenching, meaty speculative fiction. Upon receipt, I made an effort to read the […]
by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & Dominik Parisien in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Destroy. That’s the brief of this issue. Destroy science fiction. Why? Because disabled people have been discarded from the narrative, cured, rejected, villainized. We’ve been given few options for our imaginations to run wild within the parameters of an endless sky. This issue destroys those narratives and more. As with the previous Destroy projects (Women, […]
by Nicolette Barischoff in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
And so it is. Disabled People officially join Women, Queers, and People of Color currently destroying science fiction. Why, oh, why are we ever bound to destroy that which we love most? Disabled folks love science fiction, did you know that? This personal essay section exists purely because we love science fiction. Because disabled authors […]
by Andi C. Buchanan in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Design a spaceship. Or a space station, if you prefer. Imagine an artificial planet, or a galaxy. But start with a spaceship. Start from nothing except the vacuum of space. Sketch it with a freshly sharpened pencil across the blue-green lines of graph paper, or model it in three dimensions, dragging your mouse to shape […]
The House on the Moon by William Alexander
An Open Letter to the Family by Jennifer Brozek
Birthday Girl by Rachel Swirsky
Abigail Dreams of Weather by Stu West
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Disconnect by Fran Wilde
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Listen by Karin Tidbeck
(available Oct 02, 2018)
This Will Not Happen to You by Marissa Lingen
(available Oct 02, 2018)
The Things I Miss the Most by Nisi Shawl
(available Oct 02, 2018)
The Stars Above by Katharine Duckett
(available Oct 02, 2018)
A House by the Sea by P. H. Lee
(available Oct 02, 2018)
core/debris/core by Rose Lemberg
All the Stars Above the Sea by Sarah Gailey
How to Fix a Dancer When it Breaks by Genevieve DeGuzman
the body argonautica by Robin M. Eames
Convalescence by Alicia Cole
(available Oct 02, 2018)
You Wanted Me to Fly by Julia Watts Belser
(available Oct 02, 2018)
hypothesis for apocalypse by Khairani Barokka
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Spatiotemporal Discontinuity by Bogi Takács
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Disabled Enough by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
The Stories We Find Ourselves In by A. T. Greenblatt
Instant Demotion in Respectability by Bogi Takács
Nihil De Nobis, Sine Nobis by Ace Ratcliff
Disabled or Just Broken? by Jaime O. Mayer
Once We Were Prophets by Leigh Schmidt
The Horror and the Reality: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Horror by V. Medina
Constructing the Future by Derek Newman-Stille, PhD (ABD)
From Rabbit Holes to Wormholes: KidLit Memories by Alice Wong
Science Fiction as Community by Kathryn Allan
Now I Survive by Jacqueline Bryk
We Are Not Daredevil. Except When We Are Daredevil by Michael Merriam
We Are Not Your Backstories by K. C. Alexander
Stories That Talk by Keith A. Manuel
Everything Is True: A Non-Neurotypical Experience with Fiction by Ada Hoffmann
(available Oct 02, 2018)
The Only Thing Faster Than Tonight: Mr. Darkness by Elise Matthesen
(available Oct 02, 2018)
A Dream to Shape My World by Eli Wilkinson
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Why I Limp by Dilman Dila
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Unlocking the Garret by Rachel Swirsky
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Move Like You’re From Thra, My People by Haddayr Copley-Woods
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Give Me Heroism or Give Me Death by Gemma Noon
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Science Fiction Saved My Life by Laurel Amberdine
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Homo Duplex by Tochi Onyebuchi
(available Oct 02, 2018)
After the Last Chapter by Andi C. Buchanan
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Dancing in Iron Shoes by Nicolette Barischoff
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Disability and Fiction by Liana Brooks
(available Oct 02, 2018)
BFFs in the Apocalypse by John Wiswell
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The Future Is (Not) Disabled by Marieke Nijkamp
(available Oct 02, 2018)
The Stories We Tell and the Amazon Experiment by Day Al-Mohamed
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To Boldly Go by Cara Liebowitz
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Malfunctioning Space Stations by Marissa Lingen
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My Genre Makes a Monster of Me by teri.zin
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Miles Vorkosigan and “Excellent Life Choices”: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga by Ira Gladkova
(available Oct 02, 2018)
Interview: Rachel Swirsky by Sandra Odell
Interview: Marissa Lingen by Sandra Odell
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