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The Space Unicorn Was Caitlin

The Space Unicorn Was Caitlin

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This blog post wasn’t supposed to be about our late daughter, Caitlin.

This was supposed to be a lovely list of awesome things we’ve published in the 10 years of Uncanny Magazine.

But right now, and honestly for quite some time, everything for us is about Caitlin.

For those of you unfamiliar with us…

A decade ago, Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas (that’s us) launched Uncanny Magazine, an online science fiction and fantasy magazine that features passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in diverse and inclusive SF/F culture — a magazine that believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel.

And Caitlin was with us every step of the way.

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Learning the Uncanny Arts: The Secrets of the Uncanny Magazine Covers

Learning the Uncanny Arts: The Secrets of the Uncanny Magazine Covers

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One of the things we’ve learned here at Uncanny Magazine is that people really like our covers. Which is awesome. It means our evil plans :ahem: I mean, our specific vision of what we want for the magazine is working! This is why many of the backer levels of our currently running Uncanny Magazine Year Three Kickstarter include postcards or prints of our art.

For example, Tran Nguyen’s “Traveling to a Distant Day” won a Spectrum 23 Gold Award and is a finalist for a 2016 Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration. Galen Dara’s “Bubbles and Blast Off” was super popular on Twitter, to the point where people demanded prints. We worked with Galen to make them happen in our Uncanny Magazine store. (There may be something even cooler going on with the Kickstarter in relation to that. Stay tuned.)

Black Gate thought it would be interesting for us to explain how we select our Uncanny Magazine covers.

So, without further ado…

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