Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all thirty-six original stories published in the seventh year of this Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning magazine. CONTENTS Introduction by Neil Clarke The Weight of a Blessing by Aliette de Bodard The Urashima Effect by E. Lily Yu The Battle of Candle Arc by Yoon Ha Lee A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones by Genevieve Valentine (To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky by E. Catherine Tobler The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution by A.C. Wise Gravity by Erzebet YellowBoy Vacant Spaces by Greg Kurzawa Tachy Psyche by Andy Dudak Pockets Full of Stones by Vajra Chandrasekera Across the Terminator by David Tallerman Your Final Apocalypse by Sandra McDonald Shepherds by Greg Kurzawa Soulcatcher by James Patrick Kelly Cry of the Kharchal by Vandana Singh England under the White Witch by Theodora Goss Aquatica by Maggie Clark Melt With You by Emily C. Skaftun Driftings by Ian McDonald Everything Must Go by Brooke Wonders Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett The Wanderers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton's Law Along the Event Horizon by Helena Bell I Tell Thee All, I Can No More by Sunny Moraine This is Why We Jump by Jacob Clifton Free-Fall by Graham Templeton No Portraits on the Sky by Kali Wallace The Wisdom of Ants by Thoraiya Dyer One Flesh by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne Found by Alex Dally MacFarlane Mar Pacifico by Greg Mellor 86, 87, 88, 89 by Genevieve Valentine (R + D) /I = M by E. Catherine Tobler Annex by Benjanun Sriduangkaew The Promise of Space by James Patrick Kelly Effigy Nights by Yoon Ha Lee About the Authors Clarkesworld Census About Clarkesworld
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Neil Clarke is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine. 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 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. 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. Additionally, Neil edits Forever—a digital-only, reprint science fiction magazine he launched in 2015. 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. His next anthology, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven will published in early 2023. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.
