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, ...

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 2022 issue (#189) contains:Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("Company Town"), Nika Murphy ("The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift"), Anna Martino ("Manjar dos Deuses"), Chris Willrich ("The Odyssey Problem"), Chen Qian ("Inhuman Lovers"), Marie Vibbert ("We Built This City"), and Adele Gardner ("M...

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 2026 issue (#232) contains:Fiction* "The Stars You Can't See by Looking Directly" by Samantha Murray* "Down We Go Gently" by M. L. Clark* "Donor Unknown" by Nika Murphy* "Je Ne Regrette Rien" by James Patrick Kelly* "Tomorrow's Beautiful Dream" by Ju Chu* "The ...

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 December 2023 issue (#207) contains:* Original fiction by Fiona Moore ("Morag's Boy"), Samara Auman ("Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Cyborg"), Kelsea Yu ("In Memories We Drown"), Ryan Cole ("Waffles Are Only Goodbye for Now"), Ng Yi-Sheng ("The World's Wife"), Angela Liu ("The Last Gamemaster in the World"), Fu Qiang...

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 2025 issue (#229) contains:Fiction* "Wire Mother" by Isabel J. Kim* "The Cancer Wolves" by Fiona Moore* "Crabs Don't Scream" by H.H. Pak* "Understudies" by Greg Egan* "Giant Grandmother" by Liu Maijia* "The Job Interview" by Carrie Vaughn* "In Luck's Pa...

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 November 2023 issue (#206) contains:* Original fiction by Bo Balder ("Eddies are the Worst"), Hannah Yang ("Bird-Girl Builds a Machine"), James Van Pelt ("The Long Mural"), Louise Hughes ("The Parts That Make Me"), Thomas Ha ("The Mub"), Thoraiya Dyer ("Eight or Die (Part 1)"), Kemi Ashing-Giwa ("Thin Ice"), and Tia...

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 August 2025 issue (#227) contains:Fiction* "A Shaky Bridge" by Marissa Lingen* "And The Planet Loved Him" by L Chan* "Sleeper" by R.T. Ester* "Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost" by Ai Jiang* "Sea of Fertility" by Bella Han* "Heart of Thunder" by Raahem Alvi

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...

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 2023 issue (#205) contains:* Original fiction by Suzanne Palmer ("Possibly Just About A Couch"), Lavie Tidhar ("The Blaumilch"), Lisa Papademetriou ("Down To The Root"), David Goodman ("Such Is My Idea Of Happiness"), Bella Han ("De Profundis, a Space Love Letter"), Grace Chan ("Post Hacking for the Uninitia...

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 2024 issue (#208) contains:* Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("Nothing of Value"), Cécile Cristofari ("Down the Waterfall"), Alexandra Munck ("Binomial Nomenclature and the Mother of Happiness"), Chi Hui ("Stars Don't Dream"), E.N. Auslender ("Just Another Cat in a Box"), Marie Vibbert ("Rail Meat"), C. M. F...

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.Welcome to issue 184 of LIGHTSPEED! We're kicking off the month with a new SF short by Kel Coleman: "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa," a space-faring tale about the importanc...

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 ...