** 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 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, 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 (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...

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...

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.