Verden Dotnet made an easy living mixing drinks for the creator of all sentient tech in the galaxy—until he decided to kill the creator. Now this man is dead, really dead, no cloud back-ups, and V-Dot is on the run, carrying a galaxy-shattering secret in his pocket. When he misses the last ship back to Ganymede, he convinces an old, outdated but still sentient ship, TR-8901, to give him a lift.But TR suspects that something is up—it is hearing rumours about his creator’s death, and ...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 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

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 December 2025 issue (#231) contains:Fiction* "Tomorrow. Today." by R.T. Ester* "Imperfect Simulations" by Michelle Z. Jin* "The Cold Burns" by Anne Wilkins* "The Hole" by Ferenc Samsa* "Between Here and Everywhere" by Robert Reed* "This Sepulchral Aegis" by Rob Gillham...

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 August 2022 issue (#191) contains:Original fiction by M. J. Pettit ("Tender, Tether, Shell"), Bo Balder ("The Pirates Counselor"), Finbarr O’Reilly ("Pollatomish"), Carrie Vaughn ("Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System"), R.T. Ester ("Slight Forms"), Leonard Richardson ("The Scene of the Crime"), an...

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 2022 issue (#186) contains:Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("The Dragon Project"), EA Mylonas ("Saturn Devouring His Son"), Ray Nayler ("Rain of Days"), Tegan Moore ("The Memory of Water"), Cal Ritterhoff ("Wanting Things"), Priya Chand ("It Takes a Village"), R.T. Ester ("Meddling Fields"), and Arthur...

Verden Dotnet made an easy living mixing drinks for the creator of all sentient tech in the galaxy—until he decided to kill the creator. Now this man is dead, really dead, no cloud back-ups, and V-Dot is on the run, carrying a galaxy-shattering secret in his pocket. When he misses the last ship back to Ganymede, he convinces an old, outdated but still sentient ship, TR-8901, to give him a lift.But TR suspects that something is up—it is hearing rumors about his creator's death, 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 September 2025 issue (#228) contains:Fiction* "Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You" by Claire Jia-Wen* "Wireworks" by Sheri Singerling* "Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Aperture" by Al...

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 2025 issue (#226) contains:Fiction* "Missing Helen" by Tia Tashiro* "The Walled Garden" by Fiona Moore* "Welcome to Kearney" by Gary Kloster* "Serpent Carriers" by K.A. Teryna* "Bits and Pieces on This Floor" by Eric Del Carlo* "A Land Called Folly" by Amal Singh...

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.Welcome to issue 183 of LIGHTSPEED! We're kicking off our science fiction with a tasty new story by Adam-Troy Castro: "Feast of Famine." If you've ever been to a buffet, ...

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.Welcome to issue 184 of LIGHTSPEED! We're kicking off the month with a new SF short by Kel Coleman: "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa," a space-faring tale about the importanc...