by C.L. Clark in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Two
The first time I see her, it’s just a glimpse. I’m standing in the inn’s common room and the other warriors straddle chairs and call for ale. While some reach for a serving wench or boy, cheeks to pinch, a life to grasp—my stomach growls a monster’s growl. I should be slain; the growl is […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Two
Though normally we babble about something or other here, there are too many exciting things going on with Uncanny, so we are just going to board that midnight train to Uncanny Excitement Town. WOOO WOO! Most of you already know this, but we are still very excited! PHENOMENAL news, Space Unicorns! Six Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists […]
by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Two
I remember the first time I read a character I wanted to re-write. It was Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody. I was angry that Mad-Eye, who had the same eye that I do, hadn’t actually been the character I had gotten to know in the book. I was frustrated that, like with most of the other disabled […]
by Kelly McCullough in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Two
One of the great criticisms aimed at science fiction and fantasy is that it is “escapist,” framed as if that’s some terrible indictment—and the impulse to escape is a character flaw. This is, to use the Latin: stercore de bovem, or, in the vulgate: bullshit. The idea that escape is inherently tainted is fundamentally an […]
