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Clarkesworld Magazine is a Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine that publishes short stories, interviews, articles and audio fiction.
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This episode features "Symbiosis" written by D.A. Xiaolin Spires. Published in the January 2023 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/spires_01_23 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld ..read more
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When I had been chosen to have a child, I was apprehensive more than ecstatic. All the other “lottery winners” seemed to be joyous. On the holoscreens, I saw them cry happy tears. I tried to mimic that but could not. I tried to smile like I had won a bag of chocolates. I wish ..read more
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Those who came before us believed they lived in the early days of a new nation, and they left documentation for posterity the way their forbears left garbage fouling their environment—simply as a product of how they lived. The records are vast and interesting to some, especially those who can trawl through the data with ..read more
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The world-organism is awake and has spent the last decade playing round after round of tic-tac-toe with itself. Hearing this the first time, Anais reacts like anyone would to a stranger sitting next to them on a plane, insisting on conversation for the flight’s three-hour duration. She nods and smiles. She takes the man’s card ..read more
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Latent summer stirred while spring lay dormant. April had come to the Kingdom of S’ong and brought with it spells of rain. Tadpoles in the pond recently developed hind legs; above, a stray shower had been drumming at the water pit-a-pat. The rain-rinsed sky was tinged a darkening hue from horizon to zenith all the ..read more
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The microscopic world is fascinatingly geometric. Look at viruses under a microscope (and you would need a particularly powerful one to do so, the tiny buggers that viruses are), and you’d see the various polyhedral shapes they take on. The smaller the virus, the more geometric they seem to be, giving them an unnatural shape ..read more
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Paul McAuley’s “Wagon, Passing” was published in the June 1984 issue of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and he has been publishing short fiction fairly consistently ever since. His debut novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, was published in 1988 by Ballantine/Del Rey in the US and Gollancz in the UK. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ..read more
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3w ago
With the start of a new year comes the inevitable looking back at the previous one. Strictly by the numbers, here’s a quick snapshot of Clarkesworld’s 2022 output. 12 issues 71 authors 37 authors had never been published in Clarkesworld before 9 authors making their first sale 86 stories (classified by Hugo Award categories below ..read more
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3w ago
This episode features "The Lightness" written by Alex Sobel. Published in the December 2022 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sobel_12_22 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld ..read more