A Good Morning America Buzz PickThe dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.As Recommended ByThe TODAY Show * Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * Real Simple * Time * Popsugar * HuffPost * Los Angeles Times * Ms. Magazine * Book Riot * Elle.com * The Rumpus * Tor.com * Polygon * Debutiful * Electri...

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 2020 issue (#160) contains:Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Monster"), Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko ("The AI That Looked at the Sun"), Rita Chang-Eppig ("The Last to Die"), I-Hyeong Yun ("The Perfect Sail"), and Chen Qiufan ("The Ancestral Temple in a Box").Non-fiction by Douglas F. Dluzen,...

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 2025 issue (#225) contains:Fiction* "Emily of Emerald Starship" by Ng Yi-Sheng* "If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow" by Claire Jia-Wen* "In the Shells of Broken Things" by A. T. Greenblatt* "The Eighth Pyramid" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Faces of the Antipode" by Matthew Marcus

For listeners of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of powerWhen Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband’s second-i...

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 2025 issue (#226) contains:Fiction* "Missing Helen" by Tia Tashiro* "The Walled Garden" by Fiona Moore* "Welcome to Kearney" by Gary Kloster* "Serpent Carriers" by K.A. Teryna* "Bits and Pieces on This Floor" by Eric Del Carlo* "A Land Called Folly" by Amal Singh...

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 2025 issue (#224) contains:Fiction* "Brainstem Disco, 2191" by Angela Liu* "The Library of the Apocalypse" by Rati Mehrotra* "We, the Fleet" by Alex T. Singer* "Descent" by Wole Talabi* "Oh Time Thy Pyramids" by Ann LeBlanc* "Proxima One" by Caryanna Reuven* "Yarn...

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 181 of LIGHTSPEED! One of science fiction's greatest functions is asking "what if," and we've packed this issue with terrific what-if stories. We're star...

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 2025 issue (#228) contains:Fiction* "Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You" by Claire Jia-Wen* "Wireworks" by Sheri Singerling* "Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Aperture" by Al...

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 2025 issue (#222) contains:Fiction"From Enceladus, with Love" by Ryan Cole"Pollen" by Anna Burdenko"Mindtrips" by Tlotlo Tsamaase"Those Uncaring Waves" by Yukimi Ogawa"Hook and Line" by Koji A. Dae"The Sound of the Star" by Ren Zeyu"Funerary Habits of Low Entro...

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 2025 issue (#223) contains:Fiction* "Through These Moments, Darkly" by Samantha Murray* "The Seed" by Sheri Singerling* "Aegiopolis Testudo" by Gordon Li* "Still Water" by Zhang Ran* "Symbiotic" by Carolyn Zhao* "In My Country" by Thomas Ha* "An Even Greater Col...

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 2025 issue (#220) contains:Fiction"When There Are Two of You: A Documentary" by Zun Yu Tan"Child of the Mountain" by Gunnar De Winter"Never Eaten Vegetables" by H.H. Pak"The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" by Tia Tashiro"Beyond Everything" by Wang Yanzhong"Autono...

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 180 of LIGHTSPEED! This issue is full of stories turning things on their heads. For example, one of our flash shorts, "Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison...