by Stu West in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Everything is broken. The screen that takes up one entire wall of the play area is broken, cracked from corner to corner. There’s nothing usable in the games and toys cupboard, which is piled high with neatly stacked boxes full of mismatched parts and flat batteries. The few handhelds that work at all are agonizingly […]
by Karin Tidbeck in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Mika only visited Aino Korhonen ahead of time because he was in an upward swing. He had awoken with a longing to see people, talk to them, to be surrounded by life. All the interesting markets and people were up the spokes, so that’s where he went. Aino’s workshop lay in an artisan quarter on […]
by Nisi Shawl in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
The talk. The sex. Somebody to trust… Before the Grigsby Process my life was like a series of ads being skipped. I blacked out a lot. Had lots of seizures. So many that sometimes my learning software obsolesced before I could complete a semester. At home I avoided clothes—they’d just get peed in or tangle […]
by Katharine Duckett in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Under cover of night, our village moves across the steppe. Aliya leads the way. Her whistle is high and in harmony with the wind, so an untrained ear would ignore the sound. But we, the hushed and listening herd, heed the falconer’s call for what it is. Aliya trained golden eagles long before the invaders […]
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 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 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 Gemma Noon in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Pain and fatigue are everywhere in speculative fiction. The more dramatic the stakes of the story, the more likely you are to witness the protagonist dragging their broken, battered body through a slew of ridiculous challenges to succeed. From Frodo and Sam entering the caldera of Mount Doom to Ripley fighting evil aliens for her […]
by Marieke Nijkamp in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
“The future doesn’t belong to you,” a friend tells me, when we walk home together one night. Not in those words, of course. Rather, he talks about scientific advancement, genetic manipulation, and how soon, we won’t have disabled people anymore. We can fix you. We can fix those who can’t be happy because they don’t […]
by teri.zin in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
I have always felt like a monster. And on this particular morning, my brain and body transform me into a creature I barely recognize. Claws inject a longing ache deep in my ribcage, the disembodied chemicals’ lips brushing the shell of my ear whispering things no human should endure. Twins of agony perch at my […]
by Ira Gladkova in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four
Making good life choices is hard. Making good life choices when you’re neurodivergent is damn hard. Perhaps the most relatable and engaging such struggle I’ve read is that of Miles Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga. Miles and his “excellent life choices” entertain, astound, and horrify me even as they dig at something deep […]
Heavy Lifting by A. T. Greenblatt
The Frequency of Compassion by A. Merc Rustad
By Degrees and Dilatory Time by SL Huang
The House on the Moon by William Alexander
An Open Letter to the Family by Jennifer Brozek
Birthday Girl by Rachel Swirsky
And the Dragon Was in the Skin by A. J. Hackwith
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
The Expendable Disabled Heroes of Marvel’s Infinity War by John Wiswell
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)
The Linguistics of Disability, or, Empathy > Sympathy by Fran Wilde
From Rabbit Holes to Wormholes: KidLit Memories by Alice Wong
Science Fiction as Community by Kathryn Allan
The Body to Come: Afrofuturist Posthumanism and Disability by Zaynab Shahar
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
Design a Spaceship by Andi C. Buchanan
Stories That Talk by Keith A. Manuel
Everything Is True: A Non-Neurotypical Experience with Fiction by Ada Hoffmann
The Only Thing Faster Than Tonight: Mr. Darkness by Elise Matthesen
A Dream to Shape My World by Eli Wilkinson
Unlocking the Garret by Rachel Swirsky
Move Like You’re From Thra, My People by Haddayr Copley-Woods
Science Fiction Saved My Life by Laurel Amberdine
Homo Duplex by Tochi Onyebuchi
After the Last Chapter by Andi C. Buchanan
Dancing in Iron Shoes by Nicolette Barischoff
Disability and Fiction by Liana Brooks
BFFs in the Apocalypse by John Wiswell
The Stories We Tell and the Amazon Experiment by Day Al-Mohamed
