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Neil Clarke

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Publisher and Editor at Clarkesworld Magazine

Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. 2022 & 2023 Hugo Award Winner.

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  • Nov 1, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Neil Clarke

    Skip to content Editorial My original plan for this editorial was to write up some notes about my trip to Chengdu, China for this year’s Worldcon. What I wasn’t counting on was catching COVID somewhere along the way. I tested positive a day after I arrived home and had already been isolating myself out of caution.

  • Oct 1, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Neil Clarke

    Seventeen years ago this month, we published our first issue. It was a simple start that marked the pattern for our first year: two short stories and a cover. Our October 2006 issue featured the works of Lavie Tidhar and Sarah Monette and included art by Tomasz Pietrzyk. All three eventually returned to our pages and Lavie has yet another story in this one. That crew–and all the contributors to our first-year lineup–have a special place in my heart. They gave us a chance when others didn’t.

  • Sep 1, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Neil Clarke

    Skip to content Editorial Clarkesworld launched in 2006, so we’ve had a front row seat for how digital publishing has reshaped the genre short fiction market. While a lot of credit is given to online fiction opening up a much wider and global readership, its survival has been almost exclusively due to digital subscriptions and ebook sales.

  • Aug 1, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Neil Clarke

    Skip to content Issue 203 – August 2023 Editorial In early July, the Chengdu Worldcon officially announced this year’s Hugo Award finalists and I’m very pleased to see “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” by S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld, 12/2022) and “We Built This City” by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, 6/2022) among the finalists in Best Novelette. I’m also thrilled to see Isabel J.

  • Jul 1, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Neil Clarke

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