Congratulations to our Nebula Award Winners!

“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (short story)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

and

“Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A. W. Prihandita (novelette)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_1...

"Despair nourishes itself by its refusal to mourn." ~ Jonathan Lear

“in that meeting a clue is conveyed that reveals a mystery that wasn’t a mystery until there was the clue. Not the kind of mystery that can be solved. Not a mystery of what happened or who did it or even why. This has all been known for so long. The kind of mystery that is a sacrament." A de Marcken

Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love. ~ Simone Weil

Philosophical practice: to awaken a person’s capacity and desire for emancipation. Existential distress is the human experience of a person who is in touch with reality and yet prohibited from thinking, speaking or to acting in accordance with what is true.

"Knowledge knocks against the cold scope of ignorance, like sunbeams on the mirroring sea, dumbfounded by its depth." ~ Edmond Jabès

“The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other.” Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings