Neil Clarke is the award-winning publisher and editor in chief of Clarkesworld magazine, winner of three Hugo Awards for Best Semiprozine, and the editor of many anthologies, including the annual Best Science Fiction of the Year series for Night Shade Books, as well as the standalone collections Galactic Empires and More Human than Human.
First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family’s pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of ye...[SEE MORE]