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Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley on the border between reality and speculative fiction. Their latest novel, Be the Sea, features a near-future ocean voyage, chosen family, and sea creature perspectives, while delving into our ocean, our selves, and how all futures intertwine.

Their short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Decoded Pride, Small Wonders, and as a postcard from Thinking Ink Press. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects.

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Banned Books Week & World Octopus Day

It’s Banned Books Week (Oct. 5-11), and I urge everyone to check out the new PEN report on The Normalization of Book Banning: https://pen.org/report/the-normalizat...

While the number of bans or challenges reported for this year is down a little from last year, over 20,000 books have been banned in U.S. Public schools since 2021. We are in the fourth year of a book banning crisis, and once banned Read more of this blog post »

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	Be the Sea 4.03 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters by Anthony Francis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liza Olmsted (Goodreads Author) (editor), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decoded Pride Issue #1 by Sarah Century, Clara Ward (Goodreads Author) (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Color of Fear 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arcanist, Year Two by Josh Hrala (Editor), Andie Fullmer (Editor), Patrick Morris (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Touch really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desert Spirals (Uncertain Ground, #1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Auras (Uncertain Ground, #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turning Tides (Uncertain Ground, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Wonders Magazine Issue 8 by Aidan Doyle (Goodreads Author), Stephen Granade (editor), J. Kosakowski 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Clara Ward rated a book it was amazing A House Between Sea and Sky by Beth Cato (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Clara Ward and 5 other people liked Jessica's review of A House Between Sea and Sky: "Sweet Magical Realism This book was fantastic. It’s like getting a hug from your Kindle. It’s set in 1920s California. Fayette is a wonderful FMC working for a Hollywood studio creating screenplays. She escapes to Carmel and rents from a woman with a " Read more of this review »
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Clara Ward rated a book it was amazing We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope by Karen Lord	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Clara Ward and 15 other people liked Chantaal's review of We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: "We Will Rise Again is such a fantastic, ambitious, hopeful, thoughtful project, and the care with which the editors have taken to really lay out their thesis is evident. Part of me is a bit biased in that I think Malka Older (co-editor) is rad as hel" Read more of this review »
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Clara Ward rated a book it was amazing Bay Area Botanical: An Alphabetic Romp Through 26 Plants Native to the California Floristic Province by Kate Rutter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Right from the start (the introduction!), this little book is filled with sincere love for plants and inspiration for nature journalists, environmentalists, and others who share our local ecosystem. Each plant receives a full-color two-page spread, s ...more
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Clara Ward rated a book it was amazing Disposable Magic by Dani Finn (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Not just one, but two magical sea creature protagonists! Both are creative and lovable (and very much in love with each other, right from the start). The ways Sef and Kin find to communicate and negotiate with their own and other species are fascinat ...more
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Clara Ward and 176 other people liked Nataliya's review of Shroud: "I’m fascinated by science fiction stories that show us the glimpses of alienness that is indeed different from either our anthropomorphized “little green men” in a galaxy far far away or is just sufficiently puzzling as to be at least somewhat unknow" Read more of this review »
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Clara Ward rated a book it was amazing Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If our own government might be as dangerous as terrorists, then our greatest safety comes from watching out for each other, for all kinds of each other.”
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“Each person, typ or not, spoke a personal language, and he saw how he could borrow from each one.”
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“Our species doesn't operate by reality. It operates by stories.”
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