by Neil Clarke
STORIES
“So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer
“Yuanyuan’s Bubbles” by Liu Cixin, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan (tie)
“Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer (tie)
“Cassandra” by Ken Liu (tie)
“The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson (tie)
“Today I am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker (tie)
Our readers had a clear favorite this year, but after that were often split. Despite a higher than normal number of voters this year, we still had a lot of ties. If we extended the list to the top five we’d have added five more stories. I’ll take that to mean you liked what we did last year.
Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to everyone for participating!
About the Author
Neil Clarke is the editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Forever Magazine, and Upgraded; owner of Wyrm Publishing; and a three-time Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor (short form). The innagural edition of his Best Science Fiction of the Year anthology series will be published by Night Shade Books this June. He currently lives in NJ with his wife and two children.
Cover Art: We are the robots
Waldemar Kazak
About the Artist
Waldemar Kazak is a Russian artist who spent many years working on book and packaging design. While he designed beer cans, he gradually became hooked on drawing on a graphics tablet. He loves to draw characters, very often incorporating irony, but never hate. The fantastic settings of his work often include retro aspects of past eras, the 60s and 70s being his favorites.