"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence★ Finalist – Hugo Award for Best Novelette★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association★ Finalist – Locus Award for NoveletteIf you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an...

This edition of TFBPresents features a varied collection of short fiction from rising star, Ai Jiang.Hopping from fantasy, to horror, to literary pieces and more, Smol Tales From Between Worlds announces a major talent that is just getting started."Jiang is widely considered to be one of the most exciting young voices in science fiction, fantasy, and horror."– Dark Matter MagazineTFBPres...

From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion.Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and, bound by duty and tradition, the next bride to the human king. With their bark faces, arms of braided branches, and hair of needle threads, the Feng people live within nature, nurtured by the land. But they exist...

From the Nebula and Bram Stoker Award®-winning author comes the lyrical and moving science-fantasy follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind**, as Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world. For fans of Nghi Vo, Amal El-Mohtar, and Kritika H. Rao.**Fleeing from the bone palace and crashing into the waters below its steep walls, Lufeng and her siblings reach Gear, with its huge deadly water wheels, where their si...

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

They don't want you to read this.This manuscript—leaked to the public by the (former) director of the Department of Inhuman Resources, TJ Price—comprises six accounts about the Company from award-winning and noteworthy authors:AI JIANG details a terrifyingly plausible ordeal in a near-future where every day is slick with oilIVY GRIMES tells the tale of one promotion-obsessed worker in a very strange bookstoreERIK McHATTON delves in...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Send in the Clowns" by Kali Napier"In Whatever World You Choose" by Maiga Doocy"Nails" by Phoenix Alexander"Yǒngshí" by Ai Jiang

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Suffer, the Children" by Kristi DeMeester"Tooth, Teeth, Tongue" by Ai Jiang"The Pennyfeathers Ride Again" by L Chan"The Snickersnacks" by Tony Richards

The March/April 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Charlie Jane Anders, Kristiana Willsey, AnaMaria Curtis, Delilah S. Dawson, Valerie Valdes, Parlei Rivière, and Ai Jiang. Reprint fiction by Sarah Pinsker. Essays by C.L. Polk, Jeffe Kennedy, Ruthanna Emrys, and Riley Silverman, poetry by Tiffany Morris, Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi, Betsy Aoki, and Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, interviews with Kristiana Willse and Delilah S. Dawson by Car...

Each limb tells a story. Every organ shares a secret.A woman saves the leg of her dead child. A man leaps from soul to soul, trying to find a pure heart. Uteri wander, skin peels back, and human bodies liquify all over this world.Slice into the anatomy of this collection to discover all the unseen horrors the human body can deliver.Brand new stories from Alex Wolfgang, Ai Jiang, Mary Rajotte, Julie Sevens, Christopher O'Halloran, Sa...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Knotlings" by Aliya Whiteley"Black Wings" by Steve Rasnic Tem"Xiǎo Èmó—Little Demon" by Ai Jiang"In Farrow" by Jack Klausner

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Fisheyes" by Ai Jiang"Nothing is Wasted" by Seán Padraic Birnie"Idolo" by James Bennett"A Game at Clearwater Lake" by Gillian Daniels