A review by 8bitlapras
Uncanny Magazine Issue 30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (September/October 2019) by Nicolette Borischoff, Katharine Duckett, Lisa M. Bradley
4.0
Fiction
Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey: 4.5/5
Tower by Lane Waldman: 3.5/5
Seed and Cinder by Jei D. Marcade: 4/5
The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi: 2.75/5
This Is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez: 5/5 (REALLY good, my favourite of the issue)
The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah: 4/5
Non-fiction
The Blind Prince Reimagined: Disability in Fairy Tales by Kari Maaren: 3.75/5
Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairment and Fabulist (non)Fiction by Gwendolyn Paradice: 5/5 (As someone who is hard of hearing, I could relate to the sentiments expressed in this essay extremely closely; it was pretty transcendent to read feelings that I've never been able to express written and subsequently validated by someone else)
Fears and Dragons and the Thoughts of a Disabled Writer by Day Al-Mohamed: 3.5/5
How to Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps by A. T. Greenblatt: 4.25/5
Part of That World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire by Cara Liebowitz: 4.75/5
The Visions Take Their Toll: Disability and the Cost of Magic by Dominik Parisien: 5/5
Poetry
The only poetry piece I really felt an emotional connection to in this issue was 'Eating disorder' does not begin to describe it by R. B. Lemberg.
Average rating: 4.16/5, rounded up to a 4.25/5.
Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey: 4.5/5
Tower by Lane Waldman: 3.5/5
Seed and Cinder by Jei D. Marcade: 4/5
The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi: 2.75/5
This Is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez: 5/5 (REALLY good, my favourite of the issue)
The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah: 4/5
Non-fiction
The Blind Prince Reimagined: Disability in Fairy Tales by Kari Maaren: 3.75/5
Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairment and Fabulist (non)Fiction by Gwendolyn Paradice: 5/5 (As someone who is hard of hearing, I could relate to the sentiments expressed in this essay extremely closely; it was pretty transcendent to read feelings that I've never been able to express written and subsequently validated by someone else)
Fears and Dragons and the Thoughts of a Disabled Writer by Day Al-Mohamed: 3.5/5
How to Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps by A. T. Greenblatt: 4.25/5
Part of That World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire by Cara Liebowitz: 4.75/5
The Visions Take Their Toll: Disability and the Cost of Magic by Dominik Parisien: 5/5
Poetry
The only poetry piece I really felt an emotional connection to in this issue was 'Eating disorder' does not begin to describe it by R. B. Lemberg.
Average rating: 4.16/5, rounded up to a 4.25/5.