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But first, authors of Clark's World, a renowned literary

magazine of science fiction and fantasy, have speculated about how evolving futuristic

technology will impact our world across the company's 17 year history.

Now, editor and publisher Neil Clark is living through a debacle that could very well be a

sci-fi story in its own right.

His magazine is being uncontrollably inundated by short story submissions created with AI tools.

Clark's world has a reputation for always being open to story submissions,

whereas many short fiction publishers will only take submissions in certain short windows.

But for the first time, submission volume got so out of hand that Clark made what he calls

a spur of the moment decision to close the submission portal.

In the past, Clark's world has only briefly closed when upgrading its website or software.

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