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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 […]
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 […]
I love fairy tales. Admittedly, they don’t always love me back. Fairy tales can startle people who aren’t used to them. We’re now a little too influenced by Disney, a company known for bowdlerizing already bowdlerized versions of the stories. You have to step outside the Disney bubble to find fairy tales in their full […]
I was waiting for a table at the restaurant as the lunch rush started, the waiter explaining the various stations—appetizers, soup, main course, desserts—when the bow-tied man added, “The brown cheese is infused with Guinness beer and the pink cheese is infused with pork rinds.” Cheese infused with pork rinds! What a disgustingly absurd food […]
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 Melanie Ashford, Rachel Caine, Scott Day, Bliss Ehrlich, Alex Eiser, Alexander M Henderson, Crystal Huff, Marzie Kaifer, justin livernois, Jayme Lundeen, Kevin Lyda, William T. McGeachin, Kate […]
I write fiction; specifically, I write fantasy, and I have a disability. I love visiting other worlds full of magic and sorcery, populated with paladins and rogues, ghosts and princesses, and, of course, dragons. Never forget the dragons. But what I struggle with, and what I think many authors with identities that are “other” struggle […]
Maurice Broaddus is a community organizer and teacher. His work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Tales, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s, and Cemetery Dance, with some of his stories collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk novella, Buffalo Soldier, the steampunk novel, Pimp My Airship, and the middle […]
Thought experiments are tools. Some thought experiments are like power saws with no blade guards: you can see what someone wanted to do with them, but they’re still a terrible idea and likely to get blood everywhere. Science fiction has a history of loving thought experiments not wisely but too well. A “hard choices” narrative […]
Do you ever have that moment where you look in the mirror, and you really see yourself? Not just the outfit that you wear, or the makeup you just did, or the new haircut that you got—but the person who you’ve become while you weren’t paying attention? While you were too busy working on your […]
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 Rachel Caine, Scott Day, Alex E. T. Snyder, Bliss Ehrlich, Alex Eiser, Crystal Huff, Marzie Kaifer, justin livernois, Jayme Lundeen, Kevin Lyda, Alexander M Henderson, Kate O’Connor, […]
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