Clarkesworld Magazine
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Clarkesworld Magazine, #22, July 2008
The first story in issue #22 of Clarkesworld Magazine, “When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald, is rooted in the classic tradition of dark fairy tales before the Disneyfication that occurred in the 20th century. It has all the time-tested elements: deep, personal, dark, and disturbing, while providing a small ray of hope […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld Magazine, #21, June 2008
In the June 2008 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine, “Clockwork Chickadee” by Mary Robinette Kowal is a morality lesson coached in a tale involving talking toys. In many ways it’s about greed and arrogance versus cleverness and cunning where the protagonist (a clockwork chickadee) wins the day by exploiting the pride and greed of her opponent. […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld Magazine, #20, May 2008
“A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica” by Catherynne M. Valente was a very difficult read. I had a hard time figuring out what the story was even about until after I was halfway through, and the temptation to skip whole paragraphs accumulated as I read. If anything, read this to see why it’s so […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #19, April 2008
Clarkesworld Magazine is a good magazine to read, despite it having only two fiction stories in each issue. If there ever comes a day when I read a fiction magazine and discover that each issue comprises only one fiction story, then something tells me I won’t be surprised.
In the April, 2008, issue, Jeffrey Ford picks […]
Clarkesworld, March 2008
“The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black” by Jay Lake opens the March, 2008, issue of Clarkesworld. It deals with a man who has sold his life to a gangster on a distant planet as part of his self-imposed penance for losing a mysterious alien artifact, as well […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld, February 2008
The February, 2008, issue of Clarkesworld would have to be perhaps the oddest I’ve read. The oddness didn’t always work for me, but I have to admire its guts.
Stephen Graham Jones opens the issue with “Captain’s Lament,” a story about a sailor and his strange convalescence in a hospital and the new nurse who tends […]
Clarkesworld #16, January 2008
In issue 16 of Clarkesworld, Tim Pratt’s story, “The River Boy,” is a sweet little tale about an old woman anxious to carry on her line by having a child, the bargain she makes in order to do so, and its consequences. Her desire becomes linked to the needs of the people who live in […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #15, December 2007
Samantha Henderson opens December’s issue of Clarkesworld Magazine with her story, “Curse,” which takes as its opening premise the tale of Rumplestiltzkin—tracing the female protagonist’s future life with the king and her subsequent decisions. I found “Curse” perhaps a little too disjointed to truly care what was happening. The three sections seemed barely connected, and […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #12, September 2007
“The Ape’s Wife” by Caitlin R. Kiernan tells of Ann Darrow, the woman captured by King Kong in the movie, (or so I assume, not having seen the film). Here, Darrow seems trapped between realities, playing out different versions of her life. In one, she is on the island, and Kong has gone off to […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld Magazine #14, Nov. 2007
In the fourteen months since its inception, Clarkesworld Magazine has established and maintained a reputation as a publisher of high-quality genre fiction. In part, this is possible because the magazine only publishes two stories in each issue. The first, selected by editor Sean Wallace, is solicited from established authors with at least one published book. […]
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