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Clarkesworld: Year Three
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
and Realms 1: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine

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Clarkesworld: Year Three
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
and Realms 1: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine

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NONFICTION
When the Alien Is Us: Science Fictional Documentaries by Maggie Clark
Assassinating the Reader: A Conversation with Yoon Ha Lee by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: The Singularity is Dead. Long Live the Singularity! by Craig DeLancey
Editor’s Desk: Day of the Wineberry by Neil Clarke

PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form over the course of the month. Read by Kate Baker.

COVER ART
Desert Dragon by Julie Dillon

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Unlike the one pictured above, the wineberry branch that struck me didn’t have any of those pesky leaves to slow it down. I was hit by a thorn-covered whip, right across my left eye and nose. It moved so fast, I didn’t have a chance to blink.

When all was said and done, there were five thorns in my eye: one in the pupil, three in the iris and one in the white of the eye. This necessitated a trip to the eye doctor, who referred me to a specialist, who in turn referred me to another. The first two didn’t feel confident removing the one that was very close to puncturing the eye.

It sounds worse than it feels, but they had to numb the eye and remove the thorn-splinters with a pair of tweezers. The one in the white of the eye was the smallest and last to come out. Unlike the others, it was problematic, so he pulled it and snipped the skin of the eye. Did I mention I’m squeamish?

Anyhow, so began my daily visits to the eye doctor. I was placed on antibiotics, but the big worry with plant-related eye injuries is the potential for fungal infection. So far, no mushrooms, but my eyesight (and sensitivity to light) was off for days. Still a bit blurry, actually.

The fortunate bit to this whole thing… if the branch was an inch longer, it would have hit both eyes. If the thorns were just a bit longer, the eye would have been punctured. If there were more spores on the thorns, I might have ended up with eye mushrooms.

In two weeks, I’ll find out if I’ll need glasses. At the moment, my other eye is compensating for the one that is slightly off. If that’s the worst of it, my luck has once again proven its weirdness.

PSA: Doing yardwork? Wear glasses. Don’t be stupid, like me.

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NONFICTION
Gathered in Translation by Ken Liu
The Military, Magic, and the Misery Ethic: A Conversation with Myke Cole by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: Literatures of Despair by Daniel Abraham
Editor’s Desk: How Did This Happen? by Neil Clarke

PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form on the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. Read by Kate Baker.

COVER ART
The Awakening by Alexandru Popescu

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• Best Novelette: “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente, Clarkesworld #71
• Best Short Story: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard, Clarkesworld #69
• Best Short Story: “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson, Clarkesworld #71
• Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld Magazine—Edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, Jason Heller, Podcast directed by Kate Baker

Congratulations to all the nominees and a big THANK YOU to everyone who nominated us.

That said, the final podcast for March has just been posted. “96, 97, 98, 99″ by Genevieve Valentine is now available for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

So You Want To Create & Sell an Ebook — Westchester Ballroom B, Sat 11:00 AM
Lawrence M. Schoen mod, Neil Clarke
Experienced ebook designers talk about the tools, techniques, and best practices involved in creating and distributing ebooks.

How To Get Your Story Rejected — Maple, Sat 1:00 PM
Ben Parris mod, Alex Shvartsman, Hildy Silverman, Ian Randal Strock, Neil Clarke
Sometimes a story is rejected simply because it doesn’t fit the needs of the editor. But sometimes there is

Does the Medium Change the Message? — Elijah Budd, Sat 6:00 PM
Kate Nepveu mod, Dennis McCunney, Ian Randal Strock, Will Frank, Neil Clarke
Do you read ebooks differently than you do print books? Do you remember them differently? How is the evolving technology of reading changing the experience, or isn’t it? Do you prefer to read different genres in different formats and if so, why?

How Do Books Get on the Shelves? — Poplar, Sun 12:00 PM
Andrew Wheeler mod, Meredith Schwartz, Mary Aileen Buss, Neil Clarke
How do bookstores/libraries decide what books to stock? Who makes those decisions? How can you influence what books are carried? Why does one bookstore/library have a good SF/F/H collection and another have a poor one?

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NONFICTION
Videodrome at Thirty by Keith Phipps
Accepting a More Profitable Shoe: A Conversation with M. C. Planck by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: Original Sin by Alethea Kontis
Editor’s Desk: Forwards and Backwards by Neil Clarke

PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form on the 1st, 14th and 21st. Read by Kate Baker.

COVER ART
The Emperor’s Arrival by david Demaret

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Gardner Dozois Joins Clarkesworld Magazine
- Award-Winning SF Editor to Helm Reprint Department -

STIRLING, NJ – (February 22, 2013) – Clarkesworld Magazine, a leading science fiction and fantasy magazine, has named award-winning editor Gardner Dozois (pronounced “doe-zwa”) to helm its new reprint department. In his role as reprint editor, every month Gardner will draw upon forty years of experience to select two exemplary science fiction stories published during the last three decades. The first of these stories are scheduled to appear in the April 2013 issue of the magazine’s online, digital and print editions.

“Since my heart attack last year, when readers responded with encouragement and support, I’ve been trying to find a way to say ‘thank you’,” said Neil Clarke, Clarkesworld Editor-in-Chief. “The reprint department had been on our wish list for some time and when the opportunity to work with someone of Gardner’s caliber arose, I knew I had found the perfect way to express my gratitude.”

About Clarkesworld Magazine
Established in 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine quickly established itself as one of the leading digital science fiction and fantasy magazines, winning the prestigious Hugo Award two times and having its stories receive recognition from almost every major award in the field. Issues of Clarkesworld can be read online or purchased as digital subscriptions from Amazon.com and Weightless Books. Their fiction podcast can be subscribed to through their site or via iTunes. Please visit clarkesworldmagazine.com for more details.

About Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction for almost twenty years, and also edits the annual anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, which has won the Locus Award for Best Anthology sixteen times, more than any other anthology series in history, and which is now up to its Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection. He’s won the Hugo Award fifteen times as the year’s Best Editor, won the Locus Award thirty-five times, including an unprecedented sixteen times in a row as Best Editor, and has won the Sidewise Award and two Nebula Awards for his own short fiction. In 2011, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He is the author or editor of more than a hundred books, among the most recent of which are a novel written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin and Daniel Abraham, Hunter’s Run, and the anthologies The New Space Opera II (edited with Jonathan Strahan), The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (edited with Jack Dann), and Songs of the Dying Earth, Warriors, Songs of Love and Death, and Down These Strange Streets (all edited with George R.R. Martin). Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Contact
To learn more, please contact:

Neil Clarke
Editor-in-Chief
Clarkesworld Magazine
neil@clarkesworldmagazine.com
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