A review by else
Uncanny Magazine Issue 30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (September/October 2019) by Nicolette Borischoff, Katharine Duckett, Lisa M. Bradley
5.0
Content list - my rating
FICTION
✓🔊 Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey ★★★★ (see review below)
✓ Tower by Lane Waldman ★★★★ (Rapunzel re-imagined)
Seed and Cinder by Jei D. Marcade
The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah
This Is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
✓🔊The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi ★★★★ (Great story, too heavy & surreal for me, I highly recommend the interview with the author on the podcast!)
POETRY
Monsters & Women—Beneath Contempt by Roxanna Bennett
Cavitation by Toby MacNutt
✓🔊 Neithal from abroad by Shweta Narayan
The Thing In Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love by Julian K. Jarboe
“Eating Disorder” does not begin to describe it by R.B. Lemberg
Goddess in forced repose by Tamara Jerée
EDITORIALS
Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Fiction Introduction by Katharine Duckett
The Uncanny Valley by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Poetry Introduction by Lisa M. Bradley
Build the Door, Hold the Door: Protecting the Citadel of Diverse Speculative Fiction–Nonfiction Introduction by Nicolette Barischoff
ESSAYS
✓Fears and Dragons and the Thoughts of a Disabled Writer by Day Al-Mohamed ★★★★★
Thank You, Patreon Supporters! by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairment & Fabulist (non)Fiction by Gwendolyn Paradice
The Blind Prince Reimagined: Disability in Fairy Tales by Kari Maaren
2019 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine Acceptance Speech by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, and Michi Trota
How to Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps by A. T. Greenblatt
The Visions Take Their Toll: Disability and the Cost of Magic by Dominik Parisien
Part of That World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire by Cara Liebowitz
INTERVIEWS
✓Interview: Lane Waldman by Sandra Odell ★★★
Interview: Karlo Yeager Rodríguez by Sandra Odell
✓🔊Interview (podcast only): Sarah Gailey by Haddayr Copley-Woods ★★★★★
✓🔊Interview (podcast only): Tochi Onyebuchi by Haddayr Copley-Woods ★★★★
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Review of Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey
Story about a werewolf with chronic pain.
One of these things applies to me.. kinda wish it was the werewolf part.
Very realistic and relatable description of dealing with chronic pain. Don't know if I actually liked reading it though. I usually read to get away from the pain, to forget about it while I'm having adventures with the characters in the story.
I don't have the option the werewolf character has to get away from the pain. Luckily, I feel more hopeful and not as overwhelmed by the pain as she does.
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After listening to the interview with the author on the same podcast I view the story differently. A lot more hopeful then my initial feelings. I'll elaborate later. For now: I highly recommend reading the story and the interview in the podcast!
FICTION
✓🔊 Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey ★★★★ (see review below)
✓ Tower by Lane Waldman ★★★★ (Rapunzel re-imagined)
Seed and Cinder by Jei D. Marcade
The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah
This Is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
✓🔊The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi ★★★★ (Great story, too heavy & surreal for me, I highly recommend the interview with the author on the podcast!)
POETRY
Monsters & Women—Beneath Contempt by Roxanna Bennett
Cavitation by Toby MacNutt
✓🔊 Neithal from abroad by Shweta Narayan
The Thing In Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love by Julian K. Jarboe
“Eating Disorder” does not begin to describe it by R.B. Lemberg
Goddess in forced repose by Tamara Jerée
EDITORIALS
Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Fiction Introduction by Katharine Duckett
The Uncanny Valley by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Poetry Introduction by Lisa M. Bradley
Build the Door, Hold the Door: Protecting the Citadel of Diverse Speculative Fiction–Nonfiction Introduction by Nicolette Barischoff
ESSAYS
✓Fears and Dragons and the Thoughts of a Disabled Writer by Day Al-Mohamed ★★★★★
Thank You, Patreon Supporters! by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairment & Fabulist (non)Fiction by Gwendolyn Paradice
The Blind Prince Reimagined: Disability in Fairy Tales by Kari Maaren
2019 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine Acceptance Speech by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, and Michi Trota
How to Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps by A. T. Greenblatt
The Visions Take Their Toll: Disability and the Cost of Magic by Dominik Parisien
Part of That World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire by Cara Liebowitz
INTERVIEWS
✓Interview: Lane Waldman by Sandra Odell ★★★
Interview: Karlo Yeager Rodríguez by Sandra Odell
✓🔊Interview (podcast only): Sarah Gailey by Haddayr Copley-Woods ★★★★★
✓🔊Interview (podcast only): Tochi Onyebuchi by Haddayr Copley-Woods ★★★★
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Review of Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey
Story about a werewolf with chronic pain.
One of these things applies to me.. kinda wish it was the werewolf part.
Very realistic and relatable description of dealing with chronic pain. Don't know if I actually liked reading it though. I usually read to get away from the pain, to forget about it while I'm having adventures with the characters in the story.
I don't have the option the werewolf character has to get away from the pain. Luckily, I feel more hopeful and not as overwhelmed by the pain as she does.
--
After listening to the interview with the author on the same podcast I view the story differently. A lot more hopeful then my initial feelings. I'll elaborate later. For now: I highly recommend reading the story and the interview in the podcast!