Clarke, Neil
Entry updated 12 August 2024. Tagged: Editor.
(1966- ) US magazine editor and anthologist, best known for publishing and editing the award-winning Clarkesworld, which had its first issue as an Online Magazine October 2006 and is now available in print and other forms. The magazine won the Hugo for Semiprozine in 2010, 2011 and 2013; a World Fantasy Award in 2014 and a British Fantasy Award in 2014. As art director of the magazine Clarke won the Chesley Award in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2023, and was awarded the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award (see SFWA Grand Master Award) for distinguished service to the science fiction and fantasy community in 2019.
As well as Clarkesworld, he also edits Forever Magazine, a digital-only reprint science fiction magazine he launched in 2015, and SFWA Bulletin since early 2016. Since 2008 he has been co-editor, initially uncredited, of the yearly Clarkesworld Anthologies [see Checklist below]. Subsequently he has edited several stand-alone anthologies beginning with Upgraded (anth 2014), and including the very substantial The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction (anth 2019), issued on the fiftieth anniversary of the first Moon landing; from 2016 he has also edited the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. He is the owner of Wyrm Publishing and the translation imprint Clarkesworld Books; he received the Hugo as best editor (short form) in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and the Locus Award as best editor in 2024. [RR]
Neil Clarke
born New Jersey: 17 August 1966
works as editor
series
Clarkesworld
- Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2008) edited anonymously, with Nick Mamatas and Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: hb/Rolando Cyril]
- Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2009) edited anonymously, with Nick Mamatas and Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: hb/Aaron Jasinski]
- Clarkesworld: Year Three (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2013) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Pascal Blanché]
- Clarkesworld: Year Four (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2013) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Georgi Markov]
- Clarkesworld: Year Five (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2013) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Ferdinand D Ladera]
- Clarkesworld: Year Six (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2014) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Martin Faragasso]
- Clarkesworld: Year Seven (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2015) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Alexandru Popescu]
- Clarkesworld: Year Eight (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2016) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Pascal Blanché]
- Clarkesworld Magazine: A 10th Anniversary Anthology (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2017) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/]
- Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume One (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2018) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Lake Hurwitz]
- Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume Two (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2018) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: Clarkesworld: pb/Liu Junwei]
- Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume One (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2019) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: pb/Shichigoro-Shingo]
- Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume Two (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2019) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: pb/Rudy Faber]
- Clarkesworld Year Eleven: Volume One (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2019) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: pb/Matt Dixon]
- Clarkesworld Year Eleven: Volume Two (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2019) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: pb/Pascal Blanché]
- Clarkesworld Year Twelve: Volume One (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2021) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: pb/Arthur Haas]
- Clarkesworld Year Twelve: Volume Two (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2021) with Sean Wallace [anth: Clarkesworld: pb/Sean Andrew Murray]
Best Science Fiction of the Year
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2016) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: pb/Eddie Del Rio]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2017) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: pb/Markus Vogt]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2018) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: pb/Chris McGrath]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2019) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: hb/Mack Sztaba]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: hb/]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2021) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: hb/]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2023) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: pb/]
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8 (New York: Night Shade Books, 2024) [anth: Best Science Fiction of the Year: pb/]
individual titles as editor
- Upgraded (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, 2014) [anth: pb/Julie Dillon]
- Galactic Empires (New York: Night Shade Books, 2017) [anth: pb/Toni Justamante Jacobs]
- More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (New York: Night Shade Books, 2017) [anth: pb/Donato Giancola]
- Touchable Unreality (Beijing: China Machine Press, 2017) [anth: bilingual Chinese/English: stories all first appeared in translation in Clarkesworld magazine: this edition only available in China: hb/]
- The Final Frontier (New York: Night Shade Books, 2018) [anth: pb/Fred Gambino]
- Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth (New York: Night Shade Books, 2018) [anth: pb/Jacques Leyreloup]
- The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction (New York: Night Shade Books, 2019) [anth: pb/Mack Sztaba]
- New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction (Stirling, New Jersey: Clarkesworld Books, 2022) with Xia Jai and Regina Kanyu Wang [anth: hb/Vink Fan]
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