A review by tarabyt3
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 79 by Kij Johnson, Kali Wallace, Neil Clarke, Robert Reed, David Moles, Jeremy L.C. Jones, Ken Liu, Emily C. Skaftun, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Daniel Abraham

2.0

Unfortunately I feel like this was the weakest of the Clarkesworld I've read (only the last 8). I was a bit torn because I really enjoyed "Guest of Honor" and "Finisterra" (though I'd read the latter before), but none of the new stories (and the bacon story O_o) really made me excited. I did especially like the non-fiction piece on literatures of despair, and "Gathered in Translation" was also fairly thought-provoking if dry. Overall, I was a bit disappointed.