Last month, we asked you to vote for your favorite Clarkesworld artwork and short fiction published in 2010. The results are in and it's my pleasure to present the 2010 Clarkesworld Magazine Reader's Poll winners:
Short Fiction
1st Place - "The Things" by Peter Watts (podcast). This story has been selected for inclusion in four year's best anthologies (Dozois, Horton, Kaster and Strahan), was a Parsec nominee and is a current BSFA Award nominee.
2nd Place - "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" by Catherynne M. Valente (podcast).
3rd Place - "A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S. Buckell (podcast)
Artwork
1st Place - "Honeycomb" by Julie Dillon
2nd Place - "Soulhunter" by Andrey Lazarev
3rd Place (tie) - "Solitude" by Rafael Sarmento & "My Secret Friend" by Murat Turan
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who participated!
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I wasn't impressed by short #2, and I somehow totally missed numbers 1 and 3, so I'll be reading those presently!
Really shocked that neither of my top two (The Cull; Messenger) made it, but cheers to the winners. And the art is all great--one of the most impressive things about Clarkesworld is the consistency of the art direction. No other SF publication comes close, stylistically.
Great winners but didn't we vote for a best non-fiction also? What happened to that?
Unfortunately, the majority of people skipped the non-fiction portion of the survey. We didn't receive enough votes in those categories to declare a winner. The margin of error was bigger than the difference in votes between 1st and 8th place.
@euphrosyne, I'm with you as regards #2--I really disliked this story, as I found it tedious and self-indulgent. Obviously I'm in the minority here.
#3 was great, but I also skipped #1. Off to read, now!