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 […]
I hate endings. I’m writing this in the same chair I’ve written the previous 17 “Uncanny Valleys.” It’s a squishy leather chair in the corner of the living room in our house, The Milford. The Milford is a Sears Catalog House—a kit that came to DeKalb on a train and was pieced together in 1938. […]
Hey… THIS EDITORIAL IS LAVA! QUICK, JUMP ON SOMETHING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE! We are writing this in an undisclosed location in the woods of the Upper Midwest, surrounded by friends and magic. This is a brief pause to reenergize. As many of you know by now, Lynne has Big Awesome Secret News, and soon […]
Okay, normally we would have some sort of opening to the editorial before the news, but there is no way we are burying this lede (even if you’ve seen this story a million times already). Two Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Hugo Award! “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander is a finalist for Best […]