Houston, we have a problem...Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing – the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch – and when it goes wrong, you fix it... or someone dies.Mission Critical takes us from our world, across the Solar System, and out into deep space to tell the stories of people who had to do the impossible. And do it fast.Featuring stories by Peter F. Hamilton, Yoon Ha Lee, ...

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 January 2023 issue (#196) contains:Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Symbiosis"), Gregory Feeley ("The Fortunate Isles"), R.T. Ester ("Anais Gets a Turn"), Cao Baiyu ("Reverie"), Natasha King ("Sharp Undoing"), and Felix Rose Kawitzky ("Pearl").Non-fiction includes an article by Ashley Deng, intervie...

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 2021 issue (#180) contains:Original fiction by Ray Nayler ("Yesterday''s Wolf"), Ziggy Schutz ("It is a Pleasure to Receive You"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Xiaolongbao: Soup Dumplings"), Robert Jeschonek ("Dog and Pony Show"), Regina Kanyu Wang ("The Winter Garden"), Gregory Feeley ("In a Net I Seek to ...

In this suspenseful literary fantasy, two men on a ship bound for Great Britain face the wrath of disturbed spirits after raiding the Parthenon.On September 15, 1802, the English brig Mentor sailed from Piraeus, its hold filled with the "Elgin Marbles" -- the Classical Greek sculptures that Lord Elgin, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, had prised from the Parthenon in Athens. The ship was bound for Great Britain, where Elgin intended the sculptures to adorn...

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 April 2023 issue (#199) contains:Original fiction by L Chan ("Re/Union"), Andrea Kriz ("There Are the Art-Makers, Dreamers of Dreams, and There Are Ais"), R.T. Ester ("Rake the Leaves"), Nick Thomas ("Keeper of the Code"), Octavia Cade ("Happiness"), Gregory Feeley ("Stranger Shores"), Shi Heiyao ("The Librarian and...

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 October 2022 issue (#193) contains:Original fiction by Lavie Tidhar ("Junk Hounds"), Elaine Gao ("Coding Van Gogh"), Thomas Ha ("Fly Free"), M. L. Clark ("Lost and Found"), Alan Kubatiev ("Fly Free"), Chu Shifan ("Giant Fish"), Gregory Feeley ("The Secret Strength of Things (A Nikkei Legend)"), and Jared Olive...

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 October 2020 issue (#169) contains:Original fiction by Brenda Cooper ("Callme and Mink"), Natalia Theodoridou ("To Set at Twilight In a Land of Reeds"), Gregory Feeley ("Wandering Rocks"), Greg Egan ("You and Whose Army?"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Last Wishes"), Xiu Xinyu ("All Living Creation"), and Adra...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our November 2019 issue (#158) contains:Original fiction by Matthew Kressel ("Your Future is Pending"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Antarctica"), Gregory Feeley ("Cloud-Born"), Chang-Gyu Kim ("Sentinel"), and Mo Xiong ("Operation Spring Dawn").A reprint from Elizabeth Bear ("Perf...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our April 2016 issue (#115) contains:Original fiction by Carolyn Ives Gilman ("Touring with the Alien"), Gregory Feeley ("The Bridge of Dreams"), Sara Saab ("The Cedar Grid"), and Chen Qiufan ("Balin").Reprints from Garth Nix ("Old Friends") and Elizabeth Hand ("Winters Wif...

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 March 2023 issue (#198) contains:* Original fiction by Bo Balder ("Love in the Season of New Dance"), Angela Liu ("Pinocchio Photography"), Fiona Moore ("The Spoil Heap"), Shari Paul ("Bek, Ascendant"), Shih-Li Kow ("Failure to Convert"), Isabel J. Kim ("Zeta-Epsilon"), Louise Hughes ("AI Aboard the Golden Parrot"),...

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.Including stories by:...

A robot programmed for destruction develops sentience and starts to evolve in this hard science fiction novel from the author of Noumenon .When Unit Four—a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere—is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-three mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource fro...