The Hollywood Reporter: What to Watch, Play, and Read in 2021How to Mars is Andy Weir’s The Martian *infused with poetry.” —*BooklistWhat happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-fiction romp with heart that follows the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles, with a hints of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*, the* Real World*, and* Mythbusters.**For the six ...

Eleventh-grader Jacob Wasserman is just trying to get by. Under the radar, he spends his weekends at home by himself, leaning on TV and video games to distract himself from the weight— these days we would call it depression— inside him. But he' s secretly got a quirky sense of humor, and, when he starts letting it show, he finally gets noticed. In fact, before he knows it, Jacob' s ability to keep people entertained has drawn him into a full-time social life, complete with a circle of frie...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2023 issue (#201) contains:* Original fiction by Dominica Phetteplace ("The Officiant"), Carrie Vaughn ("Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone"), Isabel J. Kim ("Day Ten Thousand"), Angela Liu ("Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon"), David Ebenbach ("The Moon Rabbi"), Jana Bianchi (". . . Your Little ...

After years of medicated struggle, 34-year-old Zoe quits her office job and moves into a trailer with her boyfriend in rural Maine against her family’s wishes and her doctor’s advice. After all, she has big plans with Gordy, a goateed vegetarian with thoughtful eyes and a job at a yoga studio and, as it turns out, an unfortunate desire to always be in control. But when a late-night argument turns violent, Zoe runs away in search of a mystical beach house she recalls from childhood, only to...

The award-winning collection Into the Wilderness, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, explores the theme of parenthood from many angles: an eager-to-connect divorced father takes his kids to a Jewish-themed baseball game; a lesbian couple tries to decide whether their toddler son needs a man in his life; one young couple debates the idea of parenthood while another struggles with infertility; a reserved father uses an all-you-can-eat ...

EXCERPTThere was one guy we didn't invite to the orgy. We invited everyone else: Solaire because she's crazy and John and Walt because they're both so good-looking and they're dating anyway, and we invited Amy because everybody just loves Amy. We even invited Miranda just because she's the jealous type, and since her sister was in town we threw the door open to her sister, too. But there was this one guy we didn't invite.The stories in The Guy We Didn't Invite t...

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare?For the six lucky scientists selected by the Destination Mars! corporation, a one-way ticket to Mars - in exchange for a lifetime of research - was an absolute no-brainer. The incredible opportunity was clearly worth even the most absurdly tedious screening process. Perhaps worth following the strange protocols in a nonsensical handbook written by an eccentric billionaire. Possibly even ...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.Our May 2023 issue (#200) contains:* Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Better Living Through Algorithms"), Harry Turtledove ("Through the Roof of the World"), Suzanne Palmer ("To Sail Beyond the Botnet"), Rich Larson ("LOL, Said the Scorpion"), Parker Ragland ("Sensation and Sensibility"), Megan Chee ("The Giant...

A NEW NOVEL OF REAL SF FROM WIL McCARTHYSpace: a tycoon's playground. From a space station full of women to a monastery on the Moon, from a Martian reality–TV contest to a solar shade large enough to cool the Earth, the dreams of a handful of trillionaires dictatethe future of humanity. Outside the reach of Earthly law and with the vast resources of the inner solar system at their disposal, the “Four Horsemen” do exactly as they please.The governments of Earth are no...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our July 2023 issue (#202) contains:* Original fiction by Marie Vibbert ("Cheaper to Replace"), Lou J Berger ("Death and Redemption, Somewhere Near Tuba City"), Bo Balder ("Estivation Troubles"), Brenda W. Clough ("Clio''s Scroll"), Risa Wolf ("Tigers for Sale"), Davian Aw ("Timelock"), Alexandra Seidel ("What Remains, ...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our February 2023 issue (#197) contains:Original fiction by Yukimi Ogawa ("The Portrait of a Survivor, Observed from the Water"), Samantha Murray ("Somewhere its about to be Spring"), Eric Schwitzgebel ("Larva Pupa Imago"), R. P. Sand ("An Ode to Stardust"), Gu Shi ("Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition"), Jame...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our September 2023 issue (#204) contains:* Original fiction by Nnedi Okorafor ("Stones"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("The Queen of Calligraphic Susurrations"), Nika Murphy ("A Guide to Matchmaking on Station 9"), Arula Ratnakar ("Axiom of Dreams"), Djuna ("The People from the Dead Whale"), R. L. Meza ("The Five Remembrances, ...