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1 month ago | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | M. L. Clark |Kate Baker
Our fourth podcast for February is “A Planet Full of Sorrows” written by M. L. Clark and read by Kate Baker. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:22:39 — 151.3MB)Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS | MoreM. L. Clark is a writer, editor, and translator originally from Canada, now based in Medellín, Colombia. Clark’s science fiction appears in a range of venues including Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and Lightspeed.
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2 months ago | 
strangehorizons.com | M. L. Clark |Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Paul Kincaid
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark” (1843) generally isn’t taught as science fiction, though it has all the core elements of many configurations of the genre. In it, a scientist named Aylmer becomes obsessed with removing the one perceived imperfection on his wife, a red birthmark on her cheek.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
sfwa.org | Albert Zhang |M. L. Clark
by Albert ZhangScience fiction is often much more concerned about the physical than the organizational reality of a setting (and that’s understandable). But a good fundamental economic story can facilitate plot development and lend realism to a setting. To that end, I hope to share some tips for incorporating economic events into your own writing. My goal is to move beyond the what and into the why of economic history. Consider the following questions:What is the payoff?
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
sfwa.org | M. L. Clark
George Zebrowski (28 December 1945–20 December 2024) was a prolific writer and anthologist. He edited three Nebula anthologies and headed SFWA’s committee that oversaw the selection of editors for Nebula Awards anthologies from 1983-95. His collection of Bulletins and Forums now makes up the majority of SFWA’s archives at Northern Illinois University. He was editor of the SFWA Bulletin during 1970 to 1975, and then, jointly with his long-time partner Pamela Sargent from 1983 to 1991.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
sfwa.org | M. L. Clark
by the SFWA Publications CrewIn recent years, The SFWA Blog has undergone many changes and refinements to serve its community better. Where we once had a single editor, we’re now a team that reviews pitches collectively and looks for ways to bring more voices into the conversation.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
sfwa.org | M. L. Clark
Barry N. Malzberg (24 July 1939–19 December 2024), also writing as Mel Johnson, K.M. O’Donnell, Nathan Herbert, Mike Barry, Claudine Dumas, Lee W. Mason, and Gerrold Watkins, was a prolific and varied writer, anthologist, columnist, critic, satirist, and editor. Malzberg served as SFWA’s Eastern Regional Director from 1980 to 1984. After originally working toward careers in screenwriting and as a literary agent, Malzberg began writing and publishing short fiction in the mid-1960s.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | M. L. Clark |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd
The science fiction of near-future resistance goes by many names, with terms like “cli-fi,” “solar punk,” and “hope punk” in ascendance in recent years. But one of the most important considerations in this range of speculative writing isn’t categorical: it’s geopolitical. How well does this vein of fiction expand our sense of the world around us?
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Louis Hall |Elizabeth McClellan |J. Deery Wray |M. L. Clark
The statue of that gorgeous and beloved tyrant, my father, stands in a valley where the weather has only ever been snow. The valley is low, the statue high, and any distinguishing features—trees, houses, civilisations—have been smoothed over like filler in a wall. I cannot say how tall the statue is. Against the white void it has entirely become landscape. You might as well ask how tall the sky. My father has expanded to fill a vacuum: nothing remains to compare him against.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Elizabeth McClellan |Louis Hall |J. Deery Wray |M. L. Clark
Of course they lied that there was acishet god of fear in wild places, as iffucking,drinking, hunting, feral dancingisn’t universal as forest. Nature fluxes,gobbling bloody maenad genitals,bulldozer operators, overgrown boysdemanding Mars to rule. Desert saguarossing dirges to long life chopped short forPotemkin border walls. The anima mundigathers discarded needles, jams them intobillionaire homunculi: brain, kidney,tender flesh.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | M. L. Clark |Louis Hall |Elizabeth McClellan |J. Deery Wray
The narrative frame of “science fiction,” which emerged as a commercial genre in the 1920s, has provided writers with a vocabulary for the fantastic and speculative that has supported a wealth of storytelling for the last hundred years—and also made it difficult, at times, to talk about a cosmic sense of wonder in other terms. But the commercial genre did not emerge in a vacuum.
