** Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2026 **** Winner of the University of Sydney’s People’s Choice Award **** Longlisted for the Stella Prize ****Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Prize **In late-21st-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their...

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 2026 issue (#236) contains:Fiction* "The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler" by Tia Tashiro* "Conquerors" by Nick Wolven* "Paper Airplane Poet" by Sheri Singerling* "Aly" by Grace Chan* "Dec...

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 2021 issue (#178) contains:Original fiction by Karen Osborne ("Promises We Made Under A Brick-Dark Sky"), Grace Chan ("He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars"), Nick Wolven ("When the Sheaves Are Gathered"), Samantha Murray ("Preserved in Amber"), Leonid Kaganov ("I'm Feeling Lucky"), M V Melcer (...

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...

From The Waste Land - stories inspired by T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" Plaintive ghosts, deep space, medieval castles, rising seas, parched deserts, abandoned villages…Inspired by its powerful themes—still highly resonant in an era looking for hope—nineteen original tales mark the centenary of Eliot's poem. From the Waste Land brings together decorated writers and new voices in fantasy; ghost tales, horror, dystopia and science fiction. With a blend of the grotesque and the sublime, the p...

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 February 202- issue (#161) contains:Original fiction by Hollis Joel Henry ("Outer"), Malena Salazar Macia ("Eyes of the Crocodile"), Cooper Shrivastava ("Mandorla"), Neal Asher ("The Host"), Grace Chan ("Jigsaw Children"), and Thoraiya Dyer ("Generation Gap").Non-fiction...

In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments.Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War, a young woman named Ruth Alden embarks on a perilous journey to find her missing brother. Along the way, she encounters a hardened soldier named Captain John Caldwell, who reluctantly agrees to help her. As they navigate the treacherous landscape, their initial animosity transforms into an undeniable bond. But their newfound connection is threatened by the secrets they both harbor and the dangers that lurk around every corner.

How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon abound. Spread by digital technologies, images are thought to threaten the word and privilege surface value over content. Yet as they multiply, images face unprecedented competition for attentio...

This book tells the story of the first ten years of Service-Learning at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University highlighting what has been accomplished through Service-Learning, and how Service-Learning can profoundly benefit wider society. Through this book, the authors hope to share their experiences and insights, and inspire other interested parties to join the Service-Learning community to foster a brighter and more sustainable future.本書回顧香港理工大學推行服務學習最初十年的經驗，介紹了兩位作者所作出的貢獻，以及服務學習如何...

This book examines service-learning – a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community. It describes selected service-learning projects in different areas by highlighting the subjects being offered, service site(s), completed service projects, evaluation findings and teachers’ reflections. Although service-learning has increased tremendously in the West, its development in different Ch...

When eleven-year-old Hailey and her friend Kyle make a wish on a Chinese lion statue, they accidentally bring a dragon to life.Scared at first, the kids soon realize that Zhu the dragon means them no harm, and they show the dragon around their city. It's all fun and games until Animal Control gets wind of a wild creature on the loose. The kids have to find a way to send their new friend back home before she’s taken away.Available in French as Un dragon en...