by Aysha U. Farah in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
A beast dwelt in the castle on the hill. There was nothing so very strange or unusual in this circumstance; recently it had been tremendously in fashion. A witch couldn’t really hope to make her debut in society without imprisoning at least one troublesome young man behind stone walls. Lucia Bellomi knew all of this, […]
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 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 […]
by A. T. Greenblatt in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
So, you have a protagonist with a prophecy hanging over their head. Or maybe someone they loved got snatched up by a sorcerer. Or they wandered into the wrong part of the forest. Or they were curious and accidentally stumbled through a portal into a secret world. These things do happen. The call of adventure […]
by Dominik Parisien in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
I get nervous when I first encounter disability in a narrative. Doubly so in genre narratives. It’s an unfortunate response. I should rejoice—representation matters, and I truly believe that. I co-edited Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction because I believe it. But when I encounter disability in a story, I think: why is the author including […]
by Cara Liebowitz in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty
I am a mermaid. I have always been a mermaid. As someone with cerebral palsy, my legs have always been somewhat questionable. On land, they could tire at any moment, prompting me to sit down wherever I happened to be, even if that was the floor of a department store. They could (and did) cause […]
Fears and Dragons and the Thoughts of a Disabled Writer by Day Al-Mohamed
Thank You, Patreon Supporters! by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairment & Fabulist (non)Fiction by Gwendolyn Paradice
The Blind Prince Reimagined: Disability in Fairy Tales by Kari Maaren
2019 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine Acceptance Speech by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, and Michi Trota
