Editorial
2009 Reader's Poll
Every year, we give you the opportunity to pick your Clarkesworld favorites from the prior year. This time around, we are focusing on your favorite fiction and cover art from 2009 (listed below).
You can take the survey at http://clarkesworld2009.questionpro.com.
Everyone that participates will be in the running for one of five free copies of UNPLUGGED: THE WEB'S BEST SCI-FI & FANTASY: 2008 DOWNLOAD, a new trade paperback from Wyrm Publishing.
We will close this survey on January 30th and publish the results in our next issue.
2009 Fiction
- Celadon by Desirina Boskovich
- Teaching Bigfoot to Read by Geoffrey W. Cole
- The Second Gift Given by Ken Scholes
- The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson
- Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia
- The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel
- Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
- The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar
- From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Devonshire Arms by Alex Dally MacFarlane
- Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas
- The Giving Heart by Corie Ralston
- Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell
- On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa Hannett
- The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
- Advection by Genevieve Valentine
- White Charles by Sarah Monette
- Non-Zero Probabilities by N.K. Jemisin
- Spar by Kij Johnson
- Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar
- The Mermaids Singing Each to Each by Cat Rambo
- Brief Candle by Jason K. Chapman
- Night, in Dark Perfection by Richard Parks
- The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy by Marissa Lingen
2009 Cover Art
Neil Clarke is the editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Forever Magazine, and several anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. He is a ten-time finalist and current winner of the Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form), has won the Chesley Award for Best Art Director three times, and received the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award from SFWA in 2019. His latest anthology, New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction (co-edited with Xia Jia and Regina Kanyu Wang), is now available from Clarkesworld Books. He currently lives in NJ with his wife and two sons.
