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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Bogi Takács and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 : “Magical Girl A...

“Disassembling Light” by Kel Coleman, narrated by Wil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…

You’ve gotten a C-minus, and it isn’t your fault. It is also not your fault that your parents are anal, Pakistani immigrants who came to this country with nothing and think a C-minus in tenth grade sp...

Add some of the best new short fiction stories to your end of year reading lists!

Escape Pod 8/21/25 Lightspeed 9/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/25, 9/18/25 The 8/21/25 Escape Pod features “35 / F / Lane’s Creek, Oklahoma” by Hans Ege Wenger, a story about Sandra, a remote bot o…

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Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Chesirah By L. D. Lewis “It is almost time.” Chesirah smiled despite her screaming fingers. They were a blur, working feverishly to finish lacing together the last of her dark braids before Nazar the ...

what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.

Watching Jules claw his way back to life was the hottest thing I’d ever seen. This was the kind of scene artists immortalized with gold and lapis lazuli illumination, the kind of scene that soared, he...