by A.C. Wise in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Nine
The Magician Takes a Bow How many people can say they were there the night the trick went wrong and the Magician died on stage? Certainly, that first morning on the strip—dazed gamblers blinking in the rising light, the ambulance come and gone, with the smell of gunpowder lingering in the air—everyone claimed they knew […]
by Marie Brennan in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Nine
Before I begin, I feel that I should mention the people who made it possible for me to stand before you now. Unfortunately neither my mother nor my father can be here with me today, but my Uncle Matthew and Aunt Bess are, and I thank them both for all their hard work. For most […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Nine
Resilience. Last February, the Thomas family took their first true vacation in nine years. We spent a lovely week at Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood with dear friends before attending the Gallifrey One Doctor Who/Babylon 5 convention as fans. (We started as fans, and it is always good to reconnect with that.) The last time […]
by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Nine
Do you ever have that moment where you look in the mirror, and you really see yourself? Not just the outfit that you wear, or the makeup you just did, or the new haircut that you got—but the person who you’ve become while you weren’t paying attention? While you were too busy working on your […]
by Marissa Lingen in Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Nine
Thought experiments are tools. Some thought experiments are like power saws with no blade guards: you can see what someone wanted to do with them, but they’re still a terrible idea and likely to get blood everywhere. Science fiction has a history of loving thought experiments not wisely but too well. A “hard choices” narrative […]
