Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume One

by Neil Clarke (Editor), Sean Wallace (Editor)

Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their eleventh year. Includes stories by Genevieve Valentine, James Patrick Kelly, Nnedi Okorafor, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rich Larson, Eleanor Arnason, Robert Reed, Simone Heller, and many more!

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories.

500 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 31, 2019

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

[Anthony Friscia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably 3.5 stars. We wanted to read a compilation of short stories by different authors for the sci-if book club I’m in, and the Clarkesworld series was recommended. As you might expect, it’s uneven, although it helped me narrow down the kind of sci-fi I prefer - more story and science than allegory and feelings. Some of them are translations and certainly lost something in that. Too many in the compilation to comment on them all, although the last one I particularly liked (but maybe because it’s nearest the top of my memory heap). If you want to sample a bunch of sci-fi, one of this series would be a great way to do so.

[Andrew Brooks · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good googly !! Editors obviously had a stroke this year and forgot their jobs! Some years of Clarke's world have been just jammed with good fiction. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM!
I will only post the glaring error from the leading story:
A planetary romance, that in the first few paragraphs states the world is "[tidally] locked" with a un-livable hot side and cold side. Then the next paragraph she's going on about sunset!! There IS NO SUNSET ON such a planet!! That is WHY it has a hot side and cold side!!
The rest of the stories weren't that egregious, but even the story from Robert Reed is flawed...
RATING: YUKS FOO IE!!

[Laurel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, I finally finished this. It took me a very long time not because the stories were bad -- many were quite good. There were just too damn many of them for one collection, for my taste. I also found the themes a bit repetitive, so I think the selections could have been more carefully culled. While most of the stories at least had a worthwhile kernel, some also felt a bit unfinished and in need of further editing or development. The best thing I can say is that this book exposed me to some new (to me, anyway) and talented authors whom I hope to read in the future.