Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 61, October 2011 by Neil Clarke

If you don't do that you end up wallowing in a sordid mess of alien sex and a very real discomfort. It's really important with this story to focus on what it means, what the purposes of it is. Instead it dwells on the traumatising and corrosive potential of relationships with death, or escaping with the remnants of your life, being the only hopes for change. It doesn't have a grand arc, exciting plot development and characters you can really root for in a fist-pumping way. Essentially, Spar is the acid test as to whether you want to be entertained by literature, or edified. Anyone who reads the first sentence can tell you that. Spar is an unrepentant and harrowing story. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons. His next anthology, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven will published in early 2023. His anthologies include: Upgraded, Galactic Empires, Touchable Unreality, More Human than Human, The Final Frontier, Not One of Us, The Eagle has Landed, and the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. In the fifteen years since Clarkesworld Magazine launched, numerous stories that he has published have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press, and Stoker Awards.Īdditionally, Neil edits Forever-a digital-only, reprint science fiction magazine he launched in 2015.

Neil is also a ten-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form (winning once in 2022), three-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and a recipient of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Launched in October 2006, the online magazine has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine four times (winning three times), the World Fantasy Award four times (winning once), and the British Fantasy Award once (winning once). Neil Clarke is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine.

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 61, October 2011 by Neil Clarke