Essays

Resistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators and Consumers— Volume Four: “Don’t Let Him Catch You With Your Work Undone”—Activism for the Long Haul

by Sam J. Miller & Jean Rice in Uncanny Magazine Issue Eighteen

My so-called qualifications: I’ve been a community organizer for fifteen years. I’ve helped organize hundreds of direct actions, ranging from tame sidewalk rallies to occupations of government office building lobbies to tent cities on vacant bank-owned properties. I’ve gotten arrested in Central Park at a midnight protest; I’ve been illegally barred from public legislative hearings; […]

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Eighteen

Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps COMMANDERS Adam Leff, Alan J. Zimmerman, Avery Flinders, Bliss Ehrlich, Christian Valencia-Neihart, Claire Rousseau, Dain Unicorn, Daniel Sales, David Mackie, Devin & Stephanie Ganger, Didi Chanoch, Edmund Schweppe, Hisham El-Far, Jayme Lundeen, […]

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My Voice-Over Life

by Sophie Aldred in Uncanny Magazine Issue Eighteen

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved to read stories to her brother. She liked to put on funny voices for all the different characters and found that she was rather good at mimicking accents and odd vocal characteristics. Sometimes her brother would beg her to stop reading as he had […]

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Let Me Tell You

by Cecilia Tan in Uncanny Magazine Issue Eighteen

I have a beef with “show, don’t tell,” and it’s not just that I have a beef with pat advice about something as complex as writing fiction. “Show, don’t tell” is supposedly “good” writing’s admonition to avoid exposition. Yes, the dreaded “infodump” is seen as a hallmark of bad writing, but it’s faulty logic to […]

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Resistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators and Consumers—Volume Three: My First Civil Disobedience

by Sam J. Miller in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventeen

My so-called qualifications: I’ve been a community organizer for fifteen years. I’ve helped organize hundreds of direct actions, ranging from tame sidewalk rallies to occupations of government office building lobbies to tent cities on vacant bank-owned properties. I’ve gotten arrested in Central Park at a midnight protest; I’ve been illegally barred from public legislative hearings; […]

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After a Revolution

by Dimas Ilaw in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventeen

“I couldn’t go to the rallies,” my mother says, “because you were too small.” This is how it starts, with a mother telling her eight-year-old about the revolution that freed a country from a tyrant. I was born in December of 1985; two months​ later, the people rose up in the People Power Revolution of […]

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventeen

Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps COMMANDERS Adam Leff, Avery Flinders, Bliss Ehrlich, Christian Valencia-Neihart, Claire Rousseau, Dain Unicorn, Daniel Sales, David Mackie, Devin & Stephanie Ganger, Didi Chanoch, Edmund Schweppe, Hisham El-Far, Jayme Lundeen, Kate O’Conner, Kevin […]

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Nunca Más

by Yamile Saied Méndez in Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixteen

I was born at the cusp of the dictatorship in Rosario, Argentina at the end of the seventies. Rosario, the cradle of Ernesto Che Guevara, revolutionary icon. Rosario, the birthplace of Leo Messi, fútbol god. Fútbol has been in our blood since English sailors brought a soccer ball in their ships to the coasts of […]

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