by Jei D. Marcade in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
One night on the mountain, you eat his death. You don’t know what compels you to do it. It has been a trying day. Anyone might have committed the same thoughtless act of petty retaliation. Whatever the reason, when Kyoseong turns his back on you, slender hands on narrow hips, you take his death between […]
by Day Al-Mohamed in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
I write fiction; specifically, I write fantasy, and I have a disability. I love visiting other worlds full of magic and sorcery, populated with paladins and rogues, ghosts and princesses, and, of course, dragons. Never forget the dragons. But what I struggle with, and what I think many authors with identities that are “other” struggle […]
by Gwendolyn Paradice in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
I was waiting for a table at the restaurant as the lunch rush started, the waiter explaining the various stations—appetizers, soup, main course, desserts—when the bow-tied man added, “The brown cheese is infused with Guinness beer and the pink cheese is infused with pork rinds.” Cheese infused with pork rinds! What a disgustingly absurd food […]
by Kari Maaren in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
I love fairy tales. Admittedly, they don’t always love me back. Fairy tales can startle people who aren’t used to them. We’re now a little too influenced by Disney, a company known for bowdlerizing already bowdlerized versions of the stories. You have to step outside the Disney bubble to find fairy tales in their full […]
by Katharine Duckett in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
Transformation is at the heart of the fantasy genre. Unassuming shire-dwellers become heroes; humans turn into animals, or animals into humans; ordinary elements become the materials for magic, and ordinary words the ingredients for powerful spells. Transformation, too, is often at the core of the disabled experience. All bodies are in flux, all of the […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
The Thomases are on a busman’s holiday, but this should be short and sweet. In an undisclosed home in the woods, it’s a gorgeous summer morning. Birdsong and insects provide a score to a lush green morning after a rainfall. Caitlin is watching us work after spending a day playing with animals and friends. All […]
by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, and Michi Trota in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
(Editors’ Note: Speech portions appear in the order in which they were given at the awards ceremony.) We are deeply honored by this Hugo Award. It was a fantastic group of finalists. Uncanny Magazine is the work of numerous people, so we want to thank our 2018 regular staff of Michi Trota, Mimi Mondal, Erika […]
by Lisa M. Bradley in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
We begin with an injunction, an order: “Resist / feeding serpents your stories.” Serpents expect the performative, we are warned; they prize shiny illusions over truth. But we are survivors, and we have not survived by accepting limits. So, sly, we speak aslant. We speak of whales and horses. We seduce would-be censors with “world-tree […]
by Nicolette Barischoff in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
I’m honored to have been your nonfiction editor for Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. Ridiculously honored. Honored and gobsmacked. Honor-smacked. The Destroy series has come to mean something deeply important and deeply specific to our community of storytellers and story-appreciators. For many of us, the success of Destroy represents a kind of fulcrum. It’s the smash […]
Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey
The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah
(available Oct 01, 2019)
This Is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
(available Oct 01, 2019)
The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi
(available Oct 01, 2019)
Monsters & Women—Beneath Contempt by Roxanna Bennett
Neithal from abroad by Shweta Narayan
The Thing In Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love by Julian K. Jarboe
(available Oct 01, 2019)
“Eating Disorder” does not begin to describe it by R.B. Lemberg
(available Oct 01, 2019)
goddess in forced repose by Tamara Jerée
(available Oct 01, 2019)
Thank You, Patreon Supporters! by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
How to Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps by A. T. Greenblatt
(available Oct 01, 2019)
The Visions Take Their Toll: Disability and the Cost of Magic by Dominik Parisien
(available Oct 01, 2019)
Part of That World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire by Cara Liebowitz
(available Oct 01, 2019)
Interview: Lane Waldman by Sandra Odell
Interview: Karlo Yeager Rodríguez by Sandra Odell
(available Oct 01, 2019)
