Neil Clarke

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds....

The second volume of a new best-of-the-year science fiction short story anthology edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke. 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...

The Final Frontier delivers stories from across the literary spectrum of generations ships, warp drives, exploring new worlds, and first contacts, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine....

Visit a future where you can rent out your body, just like an apartment.... Join a robot dog repurposed for mining as it fights to stay alive after being judged as defective.... Follow a woman who must race across the surface of an alien world alone and through deadly flora and fauna to save...

A colony survives among the icy rings of a planet, hiding from alien robots determined to destroy them … at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment … a man who can’t...