Clarion SF

Clarion

by Kate Wilhelm (Editor)

Contains:

Landscape with Aliens by Larry W. Martin
A Matter of Honor by Pat Hodgell
Closed Circuit by Carter Scholz
The Leader of the Club by Marc Scott Zicree
The Bellman's Wonder Ring by Gene Wolfe
The Enemy You Killed, My Friend by Ricahrd S. Bready
Stormfall by Bill Johnston
Can Anything Be Taught? by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Thing Itself by Kim Stanely Robinson
Poppin' Fresh by Michael West
With Crooked Hands by Robert Crais
Brian in the Dreaming Seat by Alan Brennert
Something That Works by Damon Knight
No Specific Time Mentioned by Vic Webb
The Traders by Kathleen M. Sidney

Genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Kate Wilhelm’s first short story, “The Pint-Sized Genie” was published in Fantastic Stories in 1956. Her first novel, MORE BITTER THAN DEATH, a mystery, was published in 1963. Over the span of her career, her writing has crossed over the genres of science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy and magical realism, psychological suspense, mimetic, comic, and family sagas, a multimedia stage production, and radio plays. She returned to writing mysteries in 1990 with the acclaimed Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl Mysteries and the Barbara Holloway series of legal thrillers.

Wilhelm’s works have been adapted for television and movies in numerous countries; her novels and stories have been translated to more than a dozen languages. She has contributed to Quark, Orbit,  Magazine of Fantasy and ScienceFiction, Locus, Amazing Stories, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine,  Fantastic, Omni, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan.

Kate Wilhelm is the widow of acclaimed science fiction author and editor, Damon Knight (1922-2002), with whom she founded the Clarion Writers’ Workshop and the Milford Writers’ Conference, described in her 2005 non-fiction work, STORYTELLER. They lectured together at universities across three continents; Kate has continued to offer interviews, talks, and monthly workshops.

Kate Wilhelm has received two Hugo awards, three Nebulas, as well as Jupiter, Locus, Spotted Owl, Prix Apollo, Kristen Lohman awards, among others. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2009, Kate was the recipient of one of the first Solstice Awards presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) in recognition of her contributions to the field of science fiction. 

Kate’s highly popular Barbara Holloway mysteries, set in Eugene, Oregon, opened with Death Qualified in 1990. Mirror, Mirror, released in 2017, is the series’ 14th novel.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wilhelm's Clarion volume was meant to be a re-boot of the Clarion anthologies edited by Robin Scott Wilson earlier in the decade, I believe, but ended up being the swan song of the series. Clarion was (and still is, I guess) a writers' workshop/bootcamp founded by Wilson in 1968 as an outgrowth of the Milford Conference Workshop run by Wilhelm and her husband, Damon Knight. This one has ten or twelve unremarkable stories by attendees and some short articles by instructors like Gene Wolfe, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Knight. I believe the only one of the attendees who went on to a remarkable level of success within the genre was Kim Stanley Robinson.

[Ed]

ISFDB 7275. OCLC 2758283.