Editorial
2010 Readers' Poll
Every year, we give you the opportunity to pick your Clarkesworld favorites from the prior year. This time around, you'll have the opportunity to select your favorite story, cover art, interview and article from 2010. Feel free to use the comments on this post to help promote your favorites. (No attacking other people's choices.)
You can take the survey at http://clarkesworld2010.questionpro.com.
We will close this survey on January 30th and we will publish the results in our February issue.
2010 Fiction
- The Things by Peter Watts (podcast)
- All the King's Monsters by Megan Arkenberg (podcast)
- Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake (podcast)
- The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar (podcast)
- Alone With Gandhari by Gord Sellar (podcast)
- The History Within Us by Matthew Kressel (podcast)
- Between Two Dragons by Yoon Ha Lee (podcast)
- January by Becca De La Rosa (podcast)
- A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell (podcast)
- A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi (podcast)
- Futures in the Memories Market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (podcast)
- My Father's Singularity by Brenda Cooper (podcast)
- Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald (podcast)
- The Association of the Dead by Rahul Kanakia (podcast)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time by Catherynne M. Valente (podcast)
- Messenger by Julia M Sidorova (podcast)
- The Cull by Robert Reed (podcast)
- Paper Cradle by Stephen Gaskell (podcast)
- Laying the Ghost by Eric Brown (podcast)
- Salvaging Gods by Jacques Barcia (podcast)
- On the Banks of the River Lex by N. K. Jemisin (podcast)
- Seeing by Genevieve Valentine (podcast)
- The Taxidermist's Other Wife by Kelly Barnhill (podcast)
- The Children of Main Street by A.C. Wise (podcast)
Articles
- Video Game Sci-Fi Comes of Age by Brian Trent
- Earth Science Gets No Respect by Russ Colson
- Future Brains: Neuroscience Fiction versus Neuroscience Fantasy by Luc Reid
- We Come in Pieces: The Alien as Metaphor by Daniel M. Kimmel
- Stranger Than Science Fiction: Into the Alternate Dimension of Mainstream Literature by Ryan Britt
- Moonage Daydream: The Rock Album as Science Fiction by Jason Heller
- Packing for a Very Long Trip by Sarah Goslee
- Steel is not Enough: The Lives and Times of Magnus, Robot Fighter by Bill Spangler
- Sherlock Holmes & the Science Fiction of Deduction by Ryan Britt
- Nothing This Fun Could be Good For You: A History of Evil Entertainment by Nancy Fulda
Interviews
- Lucius Shepard: An Expatriate Writer of Exotic Tales
- Chameleon of the Fantastic: An Interview with Jeffrey Ford
- A Terrifying Mix of Honesty and Rigor: A Conversation with Kij Johnson
- Peculiar Notes of Contradiction: A Conversation with N. K. Jemisin
- Revealing How the Elements Cohere: A Conversation with Elizabeth Bear
- The Border between Writing and Life: A Conversation with Marly Youmans
- Finding the Language I Need: A Conversation with Caitlín R. Kiernan
- No End to the Madness: A Conversation with Artist Scott Eagle
- Even the Best Stories Have Flaws: Inside Altered Fluid
- To See Beyond the Points of View: A Conversation with Karin Lowachee
- Each Facet Intensely: A Conversation with Angela Slatter
- Sharp-pointed Tendrils & the Span of Control: A Conversation with Jay Lake
- A Novel Possibility: A Conversation with Mary Robinette Kowal
- Testing What They're Made of: A Conversation with Lois McMaster Bujold
- Struggling to Define Themselves: A Conversation with Cherie Priest
- Crossing Borders & Exploring Possibilities: A Conversation with Theodora Goss
Cover Art
Warm by Sergio Rebolledo
Transfiguration of Sergeant 05 by Bryan Sola
Retro Robots by Georgi Markov
Bagadurn by Aimé Jalon
The Biomarket by Rodrigo Ramos
perseus faces the kraken by John Barry Ballaran
My Secret Friend by Murat Turan
Watcher of Merlin by David Melvin
Honeycomb by Julie Dillon
For the Colony by Ertaç Altınöz
Soulhunter by Andrey Lazarev
Solitude by Rafael Sarmento
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.