Uncanny Magazine Issue 13 by Lynne M. Thomas

We want to help spread art that has meaning and escape. We believe that the best way to build a better world is to create things-things that give hope and catharsis. Often we will check in with each other to make sure that the time and energy spent on the magazine are worth it. Magazines are tricky in the best of times, and we’ve created Uncanny during tremendous challenges. Caitlin, Lynne, and Michael persist-as does Hugo the Cat. (The doctors have told us her current health issues are terminal, and we are doing everything we can to make the time she has left as wonderful and loving as possible.) Somehow, during all of the hospitalizations and life changes and chaos, we’ve managed to get every single issue of Uncanny Magazine out on time and to our standards. Caitlin has been through so very much, and is currently home in palliative care. The absolute worst, though, has been the last 6 months. We opened our first editorial in November 2014, with: “Januwas the worst day of our lives: A parade of awful news culminating in our 11-year-old daughter Caitlin nearly dying during her spinal fusion surgery.” It was worse than that in the autumn of 2019, when Caitlin almost died many more times. This is completely beyond our original dreams and expectations. In that time, Uncanny Magazine, or pieces from Uncanny, accumulated 166 award nominations and 35 award wins-wins that include 6 Hugo Awards for Uncanny, a Hugo Award for the Uncanny Thomases’ editing, and Uncanny stories winning Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards.

We think we’ve made a fairly dandy magazine over the last 9 years. We could only have done it with your support, Space Unicorns, and with the help of the greatest staff in the universe. We are gobsmacked and humbled by reaching this fabulous milestone.

It’s not easy for magazines to achieve that, especially a magazine that does it with yearly crowdfunding. When we launched our first issue in 2014, we had no idea that we would make it to 50 issues. We are massively proud of this achievement, Space Unicorns. There’s been 100 months of Uncanny Magazine on the Internet.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 13 by Lynne M. Thomas