Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our November 2023 issue features "Passelande" by Robert Reed, "Better" by Tom Greene, and "Passion Summer" by Nick Wolven. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in FictionWinner of the William Dean Howells MedalShortlisted for the Booker PrizeOver One Year on the New York Times Bestseller ListNamed One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book o...

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme returns in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver's blockbuster series.Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Linco...

From Ilona Andrews—#1 New York Times bestselling author of Magic Shifts and the Kate Daniels novels—comes a stark, seductive tale of a world torn asunder by supernatural gifts and irresistible passions...Karina Tucker is driving a van of children home from a field trip when an unplanned detour to a seemingly ordinary rest stop changes her life. There, she witnesses a world beyond humanity’s sight, of frightful powers and chaos, where she is in dea...

Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others!In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with...

A taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from “a writer to keep a close eye on” (The New York Times Book Review)“Precise and spellbinding . . . That knotty relationship, as propulsive as it is maddening, forces the reader to wonder: How do you separate your art from the people—and painful experiences—that helped ...

The "stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined" story collection featuring "After Yang," the basis for the A24 film starring Colin Farrell (Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven).A New York Times Notable BookChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Man...

Seventeen-year-old Michael goes to visit his eccentric mad-scientist uncle while he's busy working on yet another time-travel experiment.In the cluttered lab, Michael's uncle barely notices him. And he keeps muttering things like “quantum multiverse transporter," so Michael has to entertain himself. Which is how Michael accidentally ends up in an alternate universe. Everything looks remarkably similar to his own world but with a few key differences, like l...

A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catastrophe to arrive. Moments so brief and disturbing you can't afford to look away. Jac Jamc's affecting stories mine the territory between what is real and what it means to create understanding.

One RV. Three thousand miles. And a friendship about to hit a dead end—or a new beginning.Emily Ferreira is the “Schedule Queen,” and her post-grad plan is foolproof: a solo trek to the red shores of Prince Edward Island to find herself. More importantly, she’s putting three thousand miles of distance between her and JJ Walker—the best friend she is inconveniently, hopelessly in love with.JJ has been playing the sidekick since the fifth grade, but he’s tire...

A stunningly ambitious, prescient novel about madness, generational trauma, and cultural breakdownAt the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dependable, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister, Ad, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible, salary-backed, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary of...

Silke’s cautious older brother gets an unexpected secret mission of his own!An MG fantasy short story set in-between The Girl with the Dragon Heart and The Princess who Flew with Dragons. This story will not work for any readers who haven't yet read The Girl with the Dragon Heart.