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The Story Is All: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop by Jeremy L. C. Jones
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 6/1/2009
The Story Is All: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop by Jeremy L. C. Jones
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — First and foremost, magazine fiction editors are readers who love stories so much that they've made a... career out of reading them. They have a not-so-simple job: select, prepare, and present the best stories they can to a specific audience. Below, ten of the top speculative fiction magazine ... (more) The Story Is All: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop by ...

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From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 5/1/2009
From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Translating...   Appendix 820 of The Forbidden Greeny Jungle Field Guide This series of audio files was... created by TreeFrog7 It has been automatically translated into text   ENTRY 1 (20:09 hours) Some clumsy beast has been stalking us. It only comes out at night and it moves with no ... (more) From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor

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clarkesworldmagazine.com - 1/2/2009
Anthologists Discuss Their Craft by Jeremy L. C. Jones
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Editing anthologies is an unsung art.  An anthologist balances story selection, story editing, story arrangement, and central... concept (not to mention a variety of clerical and financial concerns).  There are many individual pieces involved ... (more) Anthologists Discuss Their Craft by Jeremy L. C. Jones

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Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 7/2/2009
Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Tiago would normally have taken his cut of the picked pockets and stopped right here at the... Seaside Plaza. On the very edge, past the vendors on the cobblestone sea walk, Tiago would sit with his legs over the rocky sea wall and look out over the harbor. Today he only detoured through [...] (more) Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell

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Dirty Hands and Invisible Words: Speculative Fiction Book Editors Speak Out, Part 1 of 2 by Jeremy L. C. Jones
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 7/2/2009
Dirty Hands and Invisible Words: Speculative Fiction Book Editors Speak Out, Part 1 of 2 by ...
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Editors are advocates—book advocates. They are champions of the books they edit and the authors they work... with. They are, as Chris Schluep of Ballantine/Villard/Del Rey said, "both steward and cheerleader for the book and author." Below, fourteen book editors talk about what it is that ... (more) Dirty Hands and Invisible Words: Speculative Fiction ...

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clarkesworldmagazine.com - 1/2/2009
Teaching Bigfoot to Read by Geoffrey W. Cole
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — To: Bigfoot@cascades.us.terra From: acejones32@avalonlink.nl.luna Subject: hi big guy Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2122 11:09 AM LST Dear... Bigfoot, Life on the moon sucks. Dad got home early from the air factory today and I wasn’t done ... (more) Teaching Bigfoot to Read by Geoffrey W. Cole
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The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 3/1/2009
The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — She is so afraid that he will die that she cannot bear to watch his restless hands... stilled upon the fine sheets; instead she sits at his bedside and watches the sunlight creep across the wall, abandoned tea cupped awkwardly between her palms. There are crickets singing in the garden, [...] (more) The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel
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Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 3/1/2009
Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — I herd the clouds as I do every day. Their ghostly protuberances wrap around the wings of... the plane, obscuring the blue AOL logo with their wispy fingers, and then retreat under the stream of air from the props, swirling and compacting into tight white formations that remind me of those [...] (more) Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia

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Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 4/1/2009
Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Rough Beast slouched toward the Bethlehem steel mill. Tons of fresh hot metal in there, every cobber... and new chum from the Allegheny to the Delaware knew that. Even Topper, the old cat-eyed bastard with steel cables for fingers and a brain stewed in barium-laced æther, knew which way the ... (more) Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake ...

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On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa Hannett
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 7/2/2009
On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa Hannett
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — The crow's talons gouged new gashes into Jupiter's enamel as the orrery revolved a clockwork orbit beneath... him. Gaslights incandesced from the base of the carnival booth, projecting the solar system's rotations onto the canvas dome above the crow's head. Light strobed into his eyes each time ... (more) On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa Hannett

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The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 8/1/2009
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Being unable to retrace our steps in Time, we decided to move forward in Space. Shall we... never be able to glide back up the stream of Time, and peep into the old home, and gaze on the old faces? Perhaps when the phonograph and the kinesigraph are perfected, and some [...] (more) The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente

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The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 4/1/2009
The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — 1. Bonsai It's a beautiful world, easily worth killing for, but what would be the point? The... world, encased in vacuum and glass, is blue-white, a miniature Earth, with a marble-sized sun rotating around it. It has a tiny atmosphere, tiny, lovingly-sculpted seas, three continents, numerous tiny ... (more) The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar

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Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 6/1/2009
Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Chakravarty spent at least three months making the same joke about how the AI was going to... start spouting, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" and then all hell would break loose—a Singularity with tentacles. Sometimes he'd even run to the bank of light switches and flick ... (more) Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas

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Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 9/2/2009
Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — In the mornings, Adele girds herself for the trip to work as a warrior for battle. First... she prays, both to the Christian god of her Irish ancestors and to the orishas of her African ancestors — the latter she is less familiar with, but getting to know. Then she takes [...] (more) Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin

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clarkesworldmagazine.com - 12/5/2008
A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — The gangly man was running up the street, his long legs pushing through the fresh unplowed snow.... He was a stranger; or at least that was her initial impression. In ways that Mary couldn't quite define, he acted both lost and at home. His face and ... (more) A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed

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The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 2/3/2009
The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Sss-uuunnn. Cha-kit. Sss-uuunnn. Cha-kit. These were the most consistent sounds Mark Edward VIII had heard each day... for the past thirteen years and five months of Sophia Loggia's declining days. The dampened noises of his own servos provided ... (more) The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson

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An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer by Neddal Ayad
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 2/2/2009
An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer by Neddal Ayad
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — Jeff VanderMeer is all over the place. In the best possible way. When he's not kicking people... in the head with the novels in his Ambergris Cycle; City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch, he's editing anthologies; The Leviathan ... (more) An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer by Neddal Ayad

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Celadon by Desirina Boskovich
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 1/2/2009
Celadon by Desirina Boskovich
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — I was six years old when I shifted between worlds for the first time. My mother and... I were in our little apartment in the center of the world, the part that got built first. The world was new then and the nanites still busy about their work. The ... (more) Celadon by Desirina Boskovich
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Cover Art: Torturing Poor Mushroom by Blaz Porenta
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 4/1/2009
Cover Art: Torturing Poor Mushroom by Blaz Porenta
— clarkesworldmagazine.com —   (more) Cover Art: Torturing Poor Mushroom by Blaz Porenta
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Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page (audio)
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 4/2/2009
Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page (audio)
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — This month's audio fiction is Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story written by Jay Lake and Shannon... Page and read by Shaun Farrell and Mur Lafferty. (more) Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake ...

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