A short story collection exploring unexpected, fantastical futures and how we cope in them.Your friend creates an award-winning VR game—based on your friendship. An AI starts a YouTube channel at the expense of its creator. A fanfic writer plagiarizing the lives of the marginalized gets her comeuppance. Time travel meets magic in a world blown into pieces by war. Dragons modify DNA and undergo peer review. In Andrea Kriz's debut short story collection, technology a...

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 2021 issue (#179) contains:Original fiction by Beth Goder ("Candide; Life-"), Nadia Afifi ("A Thousand Tiny Gods"), Adam Stemple ("The Clock, Having Seen Its Face in the Mirror, Still Knows Not the Hour"), Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu ("The Serpentine Band"), Andrea M. Pawley ("A Heist in Fifteen Products from ...

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 2021 issue (#175) contains:Original fiction by Ray Nayler ("Sarcophagus"), Endria Isa Richardson ("The Field Tiger"), Dean-Paul Stephens ("Ouroboros"), Richard Webb ("The Sheen of Her Carapace"), Chen Qian ("Catching the K Beast"), Andrea Kriz ("Communist Computer Rap God"), and L Chan ("A House 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 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 January 2022 issue (#184) contains:Original fiction by Koji A. Dae ("The Uncurling of Samsara"), Megan J. Kerr ("The Lion and the Virgin"), Geoffrey W. Cole ("The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing or The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing, Bro"), R.S.A. Garcia ("Bishop's Opening"), Gu Shi ("No One at the Wild Dock"...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...