Realms 2 is the second anthology of the fantastic Clarkesworld magazine. While many of the stories featured are interesting in some way, only a few are great.

Individual story ratings:
- "Summer in Paris, Light From The Sky" by Ken Scholes (***): an overused trope, but well executed.
- "Tetris Dooms Itself" by Meghan McCarron (**)
- "Blue Ink" by Yoon Ha Lee (****)
- "Curse" by Samantha Henderson (***)
- "Clockwork Chicadee" by Mary Robinette Kowal (**)
- "Flight" by Jeremiah Sturgill (***)
- "Captain's Lament" by Stephen Graham Jones (*)
- "Birdwatcher" by Garth Upshaw (***)
- "The Buried Years" by Loreen Heneghan (**)
- "The Glory of The World" by Sergey Gerasimov (**)
- "Teeth" by Stephen Dedman (***)
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente (*****)
- "After Moreau" by Jeffrey Ford (**)
- "Debris Ensuing from a Vortex" by Brian Ames (***)
- "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald (***)
- "The Secret in the House of Smiles" by Paul Jessup (***)
- "A Dance Across Embers" by Lisa Mantchev (****)
- "Threads of Red and White" by Lisa Mantchev (***)
- "Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-Realist Aswang" by Kristin Mandigma (*)
- "The River Boy" by Tim Pratt (***)
- "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore (***)
- "Worm Within" by Cat Rambo (**)
- "Can You See Me Now?" by Eric M. Witchey (**)
- "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and into the Black" by Jay Lake (*) ( )