by John Chu in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Seven
Content Note: Racial Slurs and Racist Violence That first video of the flying man goes viral on social media and gets featured on the news. No jet pack. No hang glider. Just him, unaided, soaring over the cable-stayed bridge that leads into the city. The video looks like it was shot on a cellphone […]
by Radha Kai Zan in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Seven
Content note: sexual violence, abuse, ableism Every morning I clear the virgins from the stairway. It is common that one or two offerings don’t make it through the cold of the mountain eve or fall asleep in death midway through the journey up to our distant frigid peak. Their relatives or escorts leave them […]
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by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Seven
As we write this, our daughter, Caitlin, is ill. We don’t know the severity of today’s illness. It might pass in hours, or be the first sign of a near-future hospitalization. Caitlin’s Aicardi syndrome creates a ton of medical issues. Caregiving her is often challenging, and sometimes terrifying. And yet, she has a great life. […]
by Meg Elison in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Seven
“They forced you to have kids?” the man asked. “One of them surprised me,” she said. “It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for.” “Was it?” “Yes.” She shook her head from side to side. “Oh, yes. But […]
by Jim C. Hines in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Seven
The best improvement we made to our house was the addition of built-in wooden floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Not only do they make me feel like I’m sitting in my own miniature library, but it’s a library overflowing with books and authors I (mostly) love. Sure, we could have put that money toward a new roof or […]
by Jeannette Ng in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Seven
The Fantasy genre has long been stereotyped as one dominated by men—a genre of farm boy heroes and barbarian king power fantasies. And however false this impression is when it comes to the vast landscapes of the written word, filmic adaptations remain broadly focused on what can be loosely termed “boy stories” such as Legend […]
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