by John Kessel
First published 2017
This issue of Clarkesworld Magazine presents seven original science fiction stories alongside critical essays and interviews. Rich Larson contributes "The Ghost Ship Anastasia," while Vina Jie-Min Prasad explores identity in "A Series of Steaks." Lettie Prell examines parallel realities in "Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities," and Gary Kloster offers "Interchange." Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini provide "Milla" in Rich Larson's translation. John Kessel delivers "Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance," and Aliette de Bodard rounds out the fiction with "The Shipmaker." The nonfiction section includes Benjamin C. Kinney's examination of consciousness in "The Evolved Brain" and Chris Urie's conversation with James S.A. Corey about collaborative writing. Kelly Robson discusses genre limitations in "Another Word: Dystopias Are Not Enough," while editor Neil Clarke reflects on the magazine's direction.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction, literary-fiction
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family
Setting: Clarkesworld Magazine
Period: Issue 124
147 pages · Paperback · Wyrm Publishing