Patients deserve to feel informed and prepared before radiation therapy begins.Yet every day, patients are asked to walk into a treatment room, lie on a table, and trust a process they may not fully understand. Being told you need radiation therapy can leave you overwhelmed by uncertainty, questions, and fear of what comes next.Unlike many radiation therapy resources that focus primarily on clinical information, Let’s Talk Radiation Therapy...

The fifth volume in this series is focused on the chemical and physical interactions between rocks undergoing metamorphism and the fluids that they generate and that pass through them. The recognition that such pro cesses can profoundly affect the course of metamorphism has resulted in a number of recent papers and we consider that it is time for a review by some of the interested parties. We hope our selection of contributors provides an adequate cross section and demonstrates some of 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 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 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 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"),...

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...

From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats ha...

Sum is a stunning exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered- each presented as a vignette that offers a lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. The stories in Sum are rooted in romance, science, ...

From Hugo and Nebula winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans and other intelligences encounter the secrets of the cosmos – and of their own existence. In Dr. Pak's Preschool, a woman discovers that her baby has been called to work while still in the womb. In Natulife, a married couple finds their relationship threatened by the wonders of virtual reality. In Sshhh… the arrival of benevolent aliens on Eart...

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories.In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas ...

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the inaugural volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award–winning editor Neil Clarke, c...

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the fie...