Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Welcome to Episode 72A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 72A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “Horse Boy” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Matt Pete...

She carries jasmine in her hair, the empire in her hands. Even now she folds up her youth, until the magnolias stop bleeding in the imperial gardens. Death follows in its place, a loyal hound. When fa...

Nobody dances the way he does, and he knows it, and everyone can tell. The beat is something ancient and otherworldly, or that’s what it feels like; it wakes something inside him, half-remembered, hal...

For Seanan McGuire. And Coyote.   Let me tell you about the year Coyote took the Devils to the State Championship. Coyote walked tall down the halls of West Centerville High and where he walked lunch ...

Content note: mentions of suicide   June finds the dragonfly the summer after Miko dies. Has died, June’s mother might say, shadow tremoring in the doorway to June’s room. Has been dead for months, Ju...

The Sigil of Assurance You take a bit of wax and drip it over the em dash fresh out of the printer, working it over, building it up until it’s a little caterpillar crawling on the page, nestled betwee...

One of the joys of Doctor Who is when decades after first broadcast, a story’s themes are suddenly painfully relevant again, and you can marvel at the timelessness of the world’s greatest Science Fict...

Ending 1 The world decays. It is your fault.   Ending 2 The world decays. It is only somewhat your fault.   Ending 3 Do I need to say it? Are you beginning to understand?   Ending 4 Clearly not.   End...

Feast #1 We stare at Judar of the Island, stunned, as he picks up a piece of roasted chicken and bites into the place where thigh meets leg, the marinade smearing the corners of his mouth. His teeth s...

Because it’s Carnaval, Iara wears a striped pirate shirt and a red pirate headband. And because of who she is, she sits on the bathroom floor, closes her eyes, and wears the perspectives of seven alle...

Content note: suicidal ideation   I am a star, falling. “Awake now?” My eyes open to words as an unknown face greets me, small with a curious gaze. She parts full lips to bare teeth and I tense. A thr...

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Content note: suicidal ideation   “Please—turn it off!” A pained, painful wail from the room across the hall; soundtrack laughter dissolving into guttural thunder as a film projector slowed to a stop....

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Content note: Historical racism and misogyny   [Time Reference Unavailable]—August, 1946 The watchseed is planted in a watery hemisphere of a watery world. The place spins around a yellow star, wearin...

A series adaptation of the fantasy novel 'The Everlasting' is in development at Netflix.

Kate was cursed by her cousin on his deathbed to never stay. She and her cousin Bo didn’t hate each other—far from it. They’d grown up together: same small farming town in the inland northwest, popula...

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Before the world ends, Miri’s family saves up enough money to escape to 2004. 2004: a safe haven. The year lilts off the tongue, like a promise. Miri and Lise spend their last evening together in thei...

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of...

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detectiveA mind is a terrible thing t...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has...

Out in the great expanse of cosmos, little seeds float. They have been drifting for billions of years in the cold darkness of space from one planet to the other, driven by the need for survival and pr...

An instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller!The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton...

Savita has never liked Thanksgiving. The ostentatiousness of it, the excess of foods dripping in fat and sugar, of eating until you felt ready to burst, never sat well with her. When the kids were lit...

She just tore it right up out of the planter. It was not a violent tearing. The soil was loose enough to release the plant, some of it coming up with the roots so that as she held the green clump—some sort of hosta in bloom, with its purple trumpets waving on green stalks above […]

Nobody read the Terms of Service. They were in a rush to watch the latest unbelievable must-see content from someone who probably died seconds later. It seemed like as soon as anyone knew The Dare exi...

Hilarious space opera comedy for the fans of Futurama and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Cozy science fiction humor, and corgis!