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Exclusive Interview: The Final Frontier Editor Neil Clarke

 

For the last couple years,Clarkesworld Magazine editor Neil Clarke has assembled what he feels are the best science fiction stories into aptly titled anthologies dubbed The Best Science Fiction Of The Year: Volume One, Volume Two, and Volume Three, with next year’s Volume Four already in the works. But he’s also, during that time, put together some collections that were more thematic but less time-sensitive. In the following email interview, Clarke discusses his latest of those, the space-centric collection The Final Frontier: Stories Of Exploring Space, Colonizing The Universe, And First Contact (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: The Best Science Fiction Of The Year, Volume 3 Editor Neil Clarke

I’ve long thought the best way to discover new writers is through anthologies. It is thanks to the poetry collection Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets For The Next Generation, for instance, that I now know about Kate Litterer [Ghostly Boo], Dorothea Lasky [Awe], and Erin Belieu [Slant Six], among others. Which is why I’m excited for the new sci-fi anthology, The Best Science Fiction Of The Year, Volume 3 (paperback, Kindle), which was edited by Clarkesworld and Forever Magazine editor Neil Clarke. In the following email interview, Clarke and I talk about what exactly this anthology includes, how he decides what to include, and why it’s not called The Best Science Fiction Of 2017.