“The Tailor and the Beast” by Aysha U. Farah - 4 starsReally sweet. A retelling of the classical where the father change his place for her daughter.depressive man meet lonely beast. Time means very little when you’re alone. At the beginning it has an ironic tone and it would have worked well to the end with that kind of humor, but the ending is quite fluffy.

This special issue's got 6 original stories, 6 poems, 6 essays, and 2 interviews (and a Hugo acceptance speech!).This issue was a followup to last year's Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! special issue, though without the "double-issue" bonus, so it's a normal length issue aside from some extra poems and essays."This Is Not My Adventure" by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez (a revisited portal fantasy) and "Away With the Wolves" by Sarah Gailey (a person disabled in human form, but not their wolf fo...

2.5 for the whole fiction side of the issue.Stories in this issue:Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey - 3Tower by Lane Waldman - 2Seed and Cinder by Jei D. Marcade - 1The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi - 1This is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez - 2.5The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah - 4I really liked The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah. It is a story about the father of a woman who is taken by the Beast in a castle. The father ends up trading his life at the castle for

Superb. Everything in this collection is good and carries emotional depth. Standouts for me among great stories, poems and essays: This Is Not My Adventure, Tower, Away with the Wolves (I love interesting shapeshifter tales; The Visions that Take their Toll (an essay every fantasy writer must read); “The Thing In Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love”Anything that makes me pause my reading to think, and then stays with me, was well worth the time and money. Five stars!

If one doesn’t want to live disabled/with chronic pain, one can change their life altogether, eventually paying the price. This story tells me in a sweet, naive manner that the price is worth paying and that one can have the best out of all worlds. Obviously fantastical.

“Away With the Wolves” by Sarah Gailey - 5 stars“Tower” by Lane Waldman - 3 stars“Seed and Cinder” by Jei D. Marcade - 4 stars“The Fifth Day” by Tochi Onyebuchi - 3.5 stars“This Is Not My Adventure” by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez - 3.5 stars“The Tailor and the Beast” by Aysha U. Farah -5 stars

So far only read/listened to: Away with the Wolves by Sarah Gailey - 2*hmmm I read it as a "coming out" story. Yeah she has pain in her human form but I thought that was metaphorically more about what she had to endure when she wasn't being who she wanted to be. When she was one way she had pain/function problems, when she was the other way she caused problems. She has to make a change because of this. Can't continue like this... It ends with a HEA when she accepts that she gets to decide how...

Hugo 2020 Nominations (Best Novelette); "Away with the Wolves"I am pleased to have learned on looking up the issue of this Uncanny, that it was entirely devoted to Sci-Fi/Fantasy Stories about (and by) differently-abled people. This story was an interesting one, but not as compelling as I wished it was. This was the story of a disabled girl, whose body often caused her too much pain to function in the space of each single day after rising, but who has the ability to shift into the from of a wolf...

Favorites:Away with the Wolves (Sarah Gailey)Tower (Lane Waldman)This Is Not My Adventure (Karlo Yeager Rodríguez)Favorite essays:Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairment & Fabulist (non)Fiction (Gwendolyn Paradice)The Blind Prince Reimagined: Disability in Fairy Tales (Kari Maaren)Part of That World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire (Cara Liebowitz)

Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey - The first, and probably my favorite stores in this issue. Tower by Lane Waldman - An interesting narrative. Seed and Cinder by Jei D. Marcade - I both liked and disliked this, however, it did haunt me long enough for me to feel it worthwhile. The Tailor and the Beast by Aysha U. Farah - Not my favorite. This Is Not My Adventure by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez - I found it difficult to connect with this story. The Fifth Day by Tochi Onyebuchi - Again, I just had a...

I've only read 'Away with the Wolves' by Sarah Gailey, as I'm voting in the Hugos this year and it's nominated for best novelette.Gailey has crafted an interesting take on the werewolf tale, in the context of someone suffering chronic pain and the release they experience with the change. Contrasting the psychologically exhausting, cumulative and unrelenting impact of chronic pain with the differing ways acute pain is experienced and can be tolerated, potentially even enjoyed (if you go so far),

These covers are always so beautiful. <3I started with 'Monsters & Women—Beneath Contempt' by Roxanna Bennett. Dismiss reversal of promises & missing curatives,who notices holes in the old narrative Read it here.

Read for the 2020 HugosStory: Away with the WolvesNote: I listened to the audio version of this story that's on the Uncanny Magazine Podcast. The reader was excellent. Highly recommended.So, about the story itself. It's a simple, but really good one. What would you do if you lived in chronic pain, but had a chance to get away from that, with conditions? How far would you go to live with those conditions? Can you find a balance? Those are the questions that this story asks. Obviously, the answers...

This is a review of Sarah Gailey’s “Away with the Wolves.” I’m a big fan of the “traditional werewolves had reasons they thought transforming was a good thing” trope, and having a protagonist with a chronic illness, which is something I usually don’t see in high fantasy, makes it even better.

Rating and review only for Sarah Gailey's "Away with the Wolves" novelette, currently being nominated for the Hugos.I listened to this via Uncanny spotify account, which is an alternative way to enjoy their stories. The narrator was really good, she brought the story to life. It's rather fascinating, the way the author related lycanthrophy with disability. The main character turned into a wolf regularly, while although her village tolerated her (as long as she paid the damage she caused) and she...

Favorites from this collection:"Away with the Wolves" by Sarah Gailey, about a woman who has chronic pain, except when she transforms as a wolf. But as a wolf, she tends to wreak havoc on the village. Can she manage to find a way to continue to live in the village? Should she try to repress her wolfish self?"The Tailor and the Beast" by Aysha U. Farah: A queer retelling of "Beauty and the Beast." I loved that the father stays to save his daughter."Sudden and Marvelous Invention: Hearing Impairme...

Even more than the stories (the tailor and the beast is marvellous) did I love the articles.That's what I want to read, more of it, much more.

This review is for Hugo-nominated novelette Away With the Wolves by Sarah Gailey: “I try to stay still for as long as I can. I try to swallow down the feeling of numbness. I know better than to hope, but I hope anyway—maybe today will be the day I get to keep that feeling. Maybe today will be the day nothing hurts.“ In a nutshell, it’s about a shapeshifter Suss, a young woman suffering from disabling chronic pain from which she can escape by changing into the wolf form. But when she’s a wolf,

3-4 stars overall with several items of 5 star quality. "Away With the Wolves" by Sarah Gailey is deservedly nominated for Hugo for Best Novelette. Also of very high quality are the stories "Seed and Cinder" by Jei M. Markade and "The Tailor and the Beast" by Aysha U. Farah and the essay "Part of that World: Finding Disabled Mermaids in the Works of Seanan McGuire" by Cara Liebowitz. I read this for my 2020 Reading Challenge (Read Harder "literary magazine") and the 2020 Hugo nominations (Best N...

I enjoyed a bunch of the stories and essays in this collection! I particularly liked "Tower" by Lane Waldman and the interview with her, as well as the poems "‘Eating Disorder’ does not begin to describe it" by R. B. Lemberg and "goddess in forced repose" by Tamara Jerée, both of which were filled with a lot of power and anger. I wish this collection had been a bit longer like the Science Fiction (issue #24) one so that it could have explored more voices, though.