Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!

Coming September 4th, THE 24th ISSUE OF THE 2016, 2017, & 2018 HUGO AWARD-WINNING UNCANNY MAGAZINE, the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue!!!

Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction is guest edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Editor-in-Chief, Nonfiction), Dominik Parisien (Editor-in-Chief, Fiction), Nicolette Barischoff (Personal Essays), S. Qiouyi Lu (Poetry), and Judith Tarr (Reprint Fiction)!

Cover: And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light by Likhain

Editorial” “The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Manifesto” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien (9/4)

Fiction: “Fiction Introduction” by Dominik Parisien (9/4) “The House on the Moon” by William Alexander (9/4) “Birthday Girl” by Rachel Swirsky (9/4) “An Open Letter to the Family” by Jennifer Brozek (9/4) “Heavy Lifting” by A. T. Greenblatt (9/4) “The Frequency of Compassion” by A. Merc Rustad (9/4)

“The Stars Above” by Katharine Duckett (10/2) “The Things I Miss the Most” by Nisi Shawl (10/2) “Abigail Dreams of Weather” by Stu West (10/2) “A House by the Sea” by P. H. Lee (10/2) “Disconnect” by Fran Wilde (10/2) “This Will Not Happen to You” by Marissa Lingen (10/2)

Reprint Fiction: “Reprints Introduction” by Judith Tarr (9/4) “By Degrees and Dilatory Time” by SL Huang (9/4)

“Listen” by Karin Tidbeck (10/2)

Nonfiction: “Nonfiction Introduction” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (9/4) “Design a Spaceship” by Andi C. Buchanan (9/4) “The Linguistics of Disability, or, Empathy > Sympathy” by Fran Wilde (9/4) “The Body to Come: Afrofuturist Posthumanism and Disability” by Zaynab Shahar (9/4) “The Expendable Disabled Heroes of Marvel’s Infinity War” by John Wiswell (9/4) “And the Dragon Was in the Skin” by A. J. Hackwith (9/4)

“Miles Vorkosigan and ‘Excellent Life Choices’: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga” by Ira Gladkova (10/2) “Give Me Heroism or Give Me Death” by Gemma Noon (10/2) “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” by teri.zin (10/2) “The Future Is (Not) Disabled” by Marieke Nijkamp (10/2)

Poetry: “Poetry Introduction” by S. Qiouyi Lu (9/4) “Ctenophore Soul” by Rita Chen (9/4) “core/debris/core” by Rose Lemberg (9/4) “How to Fix a Dancer When it Breaks” by Genevieve DeGuzman (9/4) “the body argonautica” by Robin M. Eames (9/4) “All the Stars Above the Sea” by Sarah Gailey (9/4)

“Convalescence” by Alicia Cole (10/2) “hypothesis for apocalypse” by Khairani Barokka (10/2) “Spatiotemporal Discontinuity” by Bogi Takács (10/2) “You Wanted Me to Fly” by Julia Watts Belser (10/2)

Interviews: Rachel Swirsky interviewed by Sandra Odell (9/4)

Marissa Lingen interviewed by Sandra Odell (10/2)

Personal Essays: “Personal Essays Introduction” by Nicolette Barischoff (9/4) “The Stories We Find Ourselves In” by A. T. Greenblatt (9/4) “The Horror and the Reality: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Horror” by V. Medina (9/4) “We Are Not Daredevil. Except When We Are Daredevil” by Michael Merriam (9/4) “Nihil De Nobis, Sine Nobis” by Ace Ratcliff (9/4) “From Rabbit Holes to Wormholes: KidLit Memories” by Alice Wong (9/4) “Stories That Talk” by Keith A. Manuel (9/4) “Once We Were Prophets” by Leigh Schmidt (9/4) “Science Fiction as Community” by Kathryn Allan (9/4) “Constructing the Future” by Derek Newman-Stille, PhD (ABD) (9/4) “Disabled or Just Broken?” by Jaime O. Mayer (9/4) “Now I Survive” by Jacqueline Bryk (9/4) “Instant Demotion in Respectability” by Bogi Takács (9/4) “Being Invisible” by Joyce Chng (9/4) “We Are Not Your Backstories” by K. C. Alexander (9/4) “Disabled Enough” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (9/4)

“Malfunctioning Space Stations” by Marissa Lingen (10/2) “BFFs in the Apocalypse” by John Wiswell (10/2) “Why I Limp” by Dilman Dila (10/2) “The Only Thing Faster Than Tonight: Mr. Darkness” by Elise Matthesen (10/2) “Homo Duplex” by Tochi Onyebuchi (10/2) “A Dream to Shape My World” by Eli Wilkinson (10/2) “To Boldly Go” by Cara Liebowitz (10/2) “Move Like You’re From Thra, My People” by Haddayr Copley-Woods (10/2) “Everything Is True: A Non-Neurotypical Experience with Fiction” by Ada Hoffmann (10/2) “Unlocking the Garret” by Rachel Swirsky (10/2) “The Stories We Tell and the Amazon Experiment” by Day Al-Mohamed (10/2) “Science Fiction Saved My Life” by Laurel Amberdine (10/2) “After the Last Chapter” by Andi C. Buchanan (10/2) “Dancing in Iron Shoes” by Nicolette Barischoff (10/2)

The Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 24A (9/4) William Alexander- “The House on the Moon,” as read by Erika Ensign Sarah Gailey- “All the Stars Above the Sea,” as read by Stephanie Malia Morris William Alexander Interviewed by Haddayr Copley-Woods

The Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 24B (10/2) Nisi Shawl- “The Things I Miss the Most,” as read by Stephanie Malia Morris Alicia Cole- “Convalescence,” as read by Erika Ensign Marieke Nijkamp Interviewed by Haddayr Copley-Woods