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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WHY IS IT LIKE BREATHING SOUP OUTSIDE?!?! HAVE WE FALLEN THROUGH A PORTAL TO THE JURASSIC ERA?!?!? WILL WE BE EATEN BY A DINOSAUR?!?! Oh wait, it is just summer in Central Illinois. We’d forgotten about the soup months while we lived away from Champaign-Urbana, but at least it’s otherwise gorgeous here—trees shading the sidewalks, […]
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 […]
JAMES BOND OPENING! The Thomases leap rooftop to rooftop, dodging bullets from evil spies! Explosions! Fireballs! Look at Lynne’s roundhouse kicks! Michael deflects a bullet with his electromagnetic watch! Caitlin fires two missiles from her wheelchair! A NARROW ESCAPE FOR THE THOMASES, AS THEY SKI OFF OF AN ILLINOIS MOUNTAIN WITH SPACE UNICORN LOGO PARACHUTES! […]
The sun streams through leafless branches in our Urbana neighborhood as I write the first editorial for 2018. The brisk wind hurtles across the plains, but we are safe and cozy inside our new house, listening to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings funking up a soul Christmas party, mostly happy in the glow of the […]
Well, Space Unicorns, this is goodbye. It’s been a wonderful couple of years of discovering beautiful poems, reprinting favorite stories, and making wonderful connections with authors, readers, and colleagues, but the time has come for me to take off my Space Unicorn Ranger uniform and sign off from the glittercom. Of course I can’t just […]
I love beginnings. I’m writing this editorial on Oregon Street in Urbana, Illinois, in our new house (but in the same squishy leather chair where I wrote my last editorial). This is the street where my journey in publishing began. A few blocks west is a nearly unchanged Espresso Royale coffeehouse. Twenty-five years ago, you […]