Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 182, November 2021

by Neil Clarke (Editor), Rebecca Campbell, Shari Paul

November 2021 issue (#182) contains:

Original fiction by Will McIntosh ("Mom Heart"), Alice Towey ("Dark Waters Still Flow"), Anna Martino ("This Stitch, This Time"), Pan Haitian ("City of Eternity"), Rebecca Campbell ("The Language Birds Speak"), Shari Paul ("Between Zero and One There is Infinity"), and L Chan ("The Death Haiku Of The Azure Five").

Non-fiction includes an article by Douglas F. Dluzen and interviews with Xueting Christine Ni and Charlie Jane Anders, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Genres: Science Fiction

145 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2021

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Corrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Onwards with Clarkesworld Magazine issue #182 (November, 2021). You can read the stories online or listen to the podcast, hosted and narrated by the lovely Kate Baker
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I didn’t pick and chose, just dove in blind and read all of them, and I wasn’t disappointed! On offer where:

Mom Heart by Will McIntosh
This Stitch, This Time by Anna Martino
The Language Birds Speak by Rebecca Campbell
The Death Haiku of the Azure Five by L. Chan
Dark Waters Still Flow by Alice Towey
City of Eternity by Pan Haitian
and Between Zero and One There is Infinity by Shari Paul.

All stories were exceptional and very diverse, but if I have to pick just one favorite it will be Between Zero and One There is Infinity by Shari Paul.

(I didn’t read the three non-fiction offerings).

Themes: sci-fi, fantasy, space opera, dystopian, AI, aliens.

4 Stars

[Sergio · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fantastic collection of sci-fi stories for my first month of Clarkesworld. Top 3: "City of Eternity", "Between Zero and One There is Infinity" and "The Death Haiku of the Azure Five", the last of which seemed written to appeal to me specifically.

[Sarasi Jayasekara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid collection.

Some moments in The Language Birds Speak (by Rebecca Campbell) touched me in a strange yet profound way.