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Editor the SFWA Bulletin

I’ve just been announced as the new editor of the SFWA Bulletin. No, this doesn’t mean I’ll be quitting my day job, but it does get me one step closer. Between Clarkesworld, Forever, Best Science Fiction of the Year, and several anthologies I haven’t told you about yet, and the Bulletin, I’m going to be quite busy, but the right kind of busy. 2016 is going to be a good year.

 

Clarkesworld Blizzard Reading

Here’s a special Clarkesworld reading list for those of us stuck in the blizzard (if you prefer audio, there is an audio link on each of those pages):

Ice by Rich Larson
Further North by Kay Chronister
Weather by Susan Palwick
A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed
England Under the White Witch by Theodora Goss
The Things by Peter Watts

And let’s pretend one of these is the cover:

If you enjoy this special Clarkesworld playlist, consider supporting us at Patreon or subscribing to our digital edition.

Slush Reader Application 2016

Clarkesworld Magazine occasionally has need of new slush readers. If you are interested, please fill out this application. We never know when an opening will happen, but when one does, people on this list get priority.

A few notes:

This is an unpaid volunteer position.
Slush readers & other staff are prohibited from submitting stories or articles to the magazine.
You will be expected to read and provide comments on an average of five stories per day.

Clarkesworld Magazine and Award Eligibility

It’s closing in on that time of year again… award nomination season.

As has been the case for the last few years, Clarkesworld Magazine is not eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. We are professional by their definitions. I remain eligible in editor short form. Oddly enough, we are still classed as non-professional according to the World Fantasy Awards.

If you are considering nominating any of our 2015 stories for the Hugo, World Fantasy, or Nebula Awards this year, here are the appropriate categories and links to the stories:

Novelettes

(Note: World Fantasy differs here. Stories with * are novellas by their definition. Others are short stories.)

“The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” by Catherynne M. Valente *
“Ether” by Zhang Ran *
“Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan
“An Evolutionary Myth ” by Bo-young Kim
“Asymptotic” by Andy Dudak
“The Hunger Tower” by Pan Haitian
“The Servant” by Emily Devenport *
“And If the Body Were Not the Soul” by A.C. Wise
“So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer
“Morrigan in Shadow” by Seth Dickinson *

Short Stories

“Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight” by Aliette de Bodard
“The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary” by Kij Johnson
“Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer
“An Exile of the Heart” by Jay Lake
“A Universal Elegy” by Tang Fei
“Indelible” by Gwendolyn Clare
“Meshed” by Rich Larson
“The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson
“The Last Surviving Gondola Widow” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“All Original Brightness” by Mike Buckley
“Slowly Builds An Empire” by Naim Kabir
“Cassandra” by Ken Liu
“Postcards from Monster Island” by Emily Devenport
“Let Baser Things Devise” by Berrien C. Henderson
“The Empress in Her Glory” by Robert Reed
“The Petals Abide” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Mrs. Griffin Prepares to Suicide Tonight” by A Que
“The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies” by Matthew Kressel
“Ossuary” by Ian Muneshwar
“For the Love of Sylvia City” by Andrea M. Pawley
“This Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year” by Kris Millering
“Forestspirit, Forestspirit” by Bogi Takács
“Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix)” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Further North” by Kay Chronister
“Snakes” by Yoon Ha Lee
“When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller
“Android Whores Can’t Cry” by Natalia Theodoridou
“Security Check” by Han Song
“It Was Educational” by J.B. Park
“Today I am Paul” by Martin Shoemaker
“Preserve Her Memory” by Bao Shu
“The Algebra of Events” by Elizabeth Bourne
“Cremulator” by Robert Reed
“Loving Grace” by Erica L. Satifka
“The Occidental Bride” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Summer at Grandma’s House” by Hao Jingfang
“Egg Island” by Karen Heuler
“The Father” by Kola Heyward-Rotimi
“Ice” by Rich Larson
“Your Right Arm” by Nin Harris
“The Hexagonal Bolero of Honeybees” by Krista Hoeppner Leahy
“In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer” by Sara Saab
“If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” by Xia Jia
“Yuanyuan’s Bubbles” by Liu Cixin
“When We Die on Mars” by Cassandra Khaw
“Union” by Tamsyn Muir

January Issues of Clarkesworld and Forever Magazine

The January 2016 issue of Clarkesworld includes:

Original Fiction by Robert Reed (“The Algorithms of Value”), E. Catherine Tobler (“The Abduction of Europa”), Rich Larson (“Extraction Request”), and Bao Shu (“Everybody Loves Charles”).
Reprints byRobert Silverberg (“The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale”), Megan Lindholm (“Old Paint”)Megan Lindholm (“Old Paint”).
Non-fiction by Sofia (Our Future is Artificial), an interview with Julie Dillon, an Another Word column by Ken Liu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

The January issue of Forever Magazine features a novella by Nick Wolven (“On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers”), a novelette by Mike Resnick (“When the Old Gods Die”), and a novelette by Mary Rosenblum (“Search Engine”).

New Mailing List

I’ve launched a mailing list for people who want to keep up with information regarding Clarkesworld, Forever, and other short fiction projects I’m involved in. At present, the volume should only be 1-2 messages per month.

If you sign up before the 20th, you’ll be in the running for a free StoryBundle gift code for the VanderMeer Mixtape bundle they are currently selling.

Best Science Fiction of the Year – Contents and Cover

The Best Science Fiction of the Year – Volume 1

Night Shade Books – June 7, 2016

ISBN-10: 1597808547

ISBN-13: 978-1597808545

The introductory volume in a new year’s best series. This book will feature science fiction short stories/novelettes/novellas originally published in 2015.

Table of Contents (in no particular order)

“A Murmuration” by Alastair Reynolds (Interzone, March/April 2015)
“In Blue Lily’s Wake” by Aliette de Bodard (Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
“Outsider” by An Owomeyla (Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
“Another Word for World” by Ann Leckie (Future Visions, edited by Microsoft & Melcher Media)
“Iron Pegasus” by Brenda Cooper (Mission Tomorrow, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt)
“Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, September 2015)
“Bannerless” by Carrie Vaughn (The End Has Come, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey)
“Gypsy” by Carter Scholz (PM Press)
“The Smog Society” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu and Carmen Yiling Yan (Lightspeed, August 2015)
“The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss” by David Brin (Old Venus, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois)
“Damage” by David D. Levine (Tor.com, 1/21/2015)
“Capitalism in the 22nd Century” by Geoff Ryman (Stories for Chip, edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell)
“Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (Uncanny, January/February 2015)
“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan” by Ian McDonald (Old Venus, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois)
“Hold-Time Violations” by John Chu (Tor.com, 10/17/2015)
“Two-Year Man” by Kelly Robson (Asimov’s, August 2015)
“The Gods Have Not Died in Vain” by Ken Liu (The End Has Come, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey)
“Today I Am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld, August 2015)
“Cocoons” by Nancy Kress (Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
“Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, January 2015)
“So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, November 2015)
“No Placeholder for You, My Love” by Nick Wolven (Asimov’s, August 2015)
“Wild Honey” by Paul McAuley (Asimov’s, August 2015)
“Meshed” by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, February 2015)
“Empty” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, December 2015)
“Calved” by Sam J. Miller (Asimov’s, September 2015)
“The Audience” by Sean McMullen (Analog, June 2015)
“Hello, Hello” by Seanan McGuire (Future Visions, edited by Microsoft & Melcher Media)
“Three Bodies at Mitanni” by Seth Dickinson (Analog, June 2015)
“Violation of the TrueNet Security Act” by Taiyo Fujii, Translated by Jim Hubbert (Lightspeed, July 2015)
“The Cold Inequalities” by Yoon Ha Lee (Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)

Preorders now available at:

Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.es, Amazon.jp
Barnes & Noble
Powells

Stocking Stuffers

I’m told that print issues of Clarkesworld Magazine make great stocking stuffers.

Available from Amazon or Wyrm Publishing.

Gift Subscriptions to Clarkesworld or Forever Magazine

If you are looking to give someone a gift subscription to Clarkesworld Magazine or Forever Magazine this holiday season, your best option is over at Weightless Books. Weightless is one of the few digital subscription outlets that handles this well.

Here’s how you do it:

Go to the Weightless Page for Clarkesworld or Forever.
Select your format (MOBI for Kindles, EPUB for almost everything else).
Click ADD TO CART
Click on VIEW CART (where the ADD TO CART button was)
Check the box next to THIS IS A GIFT ORDER
Three new fields should appear in the cart: Name, Email, and Delivery Date. Fill these out and continue the checkout process when done.

If you have any problems, you can reach the wonderful people at Weightless via their contact page.

Dual Clarkesworld & Forever Subscriptions at Patreon

You can now get a dual subscription to Clarkesworld Magazine and Forever Magazine via our Patreon Page!