{"id":51773,"date":"2025-02-22T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51773"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:32:20","slug":"clarkesworld-issue-221-edited-by-neil-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/22\/clarkesworld-issue-221-edited-by-neil-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkesworld Issue 221 edited by Neil Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 12 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/d4ff28a3-a374-4ce5-9b1c-c4f91e0a1708\"><em>Clarkesworld Issue 221<\/em><\/a> edited by Neil Clarke: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>My favorites this month were &#8220;King of the Castle&#8221; by Fiona Moore and &#8220;The Hanging Tower of Babel&#8221; by Wang Zhenzhen, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this is the fourth consecutive story by Fiona Moore, all in the same world and with the same central characters (particularly Morag and her repurposed security robot Seamus), that has ended up as one of my favorites when they appear in <em>Clarkesworld<\/em>. She&#8217;s writing the kind of post-apocalyptic stores that really resonate for me, where the immediate post-apocalyptic part and all associated Bad Things That Happen have already happened, and society has moved on to finding ways to reconnect and rebuild. Post-post-apocalyptic, I suppose. Much more my style of story than the standard post-apocalyptic tale of people trapped in bad situations and having to cope with horrible things happening to them.<\/p>\n<p>The stories I&#8217;ve read (I haven&#8217;t yet dug to see if there are more in this world) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/moore_12_23\/\">&#8220;Morag&#8217;s Boy&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Clarkesworld 207<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/moore_05_24\/\">&#8220;The Portmeirion Road&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Clarkesworld 212<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/moore_10_24\/\">&#8220;The Children of Flame&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Clarkesworld 217<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>And now, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/moore_02_25\/\">&#8220;King of the Castle&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Clarkesworld 221<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; 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