Brought to you by Penguin.Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the Union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, eleven years in the future?But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, pol...

* WINNER OF THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL ** NOMINATED FOR THE BSFA, LOCUS, AND NEBULA AWARDS *'Wonderfully ingenious' - LOCUS'Boldly ambitious' - SFX MAGAZINE'Künsken's vivid worldbuilding is a knockout' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville' - B&N SCIFI AND FANTASY BLOGTHE ULTIMATE HEISTBel...

* NOMINATED FOR THE SUBJECTIVE CHAOS AWARD *'There are deep mysteries here' - LOCUS'A very good and entertaining read' - TANGENT ONLINE'I found the world truly fascinating' - BLACK GATE'A good detective story' - ROCKET STACK RANKDEATH BY PARADOXMajor Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. He...

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL *'Delightfully brutal portrayal of the reality of war' - AMAZING STORIES'Astonishingly good' - WORLDS WITHOUT END'Compelling, convincing and tightly written' - SFANDF REVIEWS'One of the best [series] of this century' - SCIFI MINDA WAR IN THE STARSThe war rag...

* THE HEARTBREAKING CONCLUSION OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED VENUS ASCENDANT SERIES *'Takes us on an enormous journey' - SCIFINOW'Retains that "human" impact of the sci-fi stories of old' - AMAZING STORIES'Each book just seems to be better than the last' - KARA REVIEWSLIFE CAN EXIST ANYWHERE. AND ANYWHERE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOME.Georges-Ét...

The stunning, critically-acclaimed follow-up to best-selling The Quantum Magician THE ULTIMATE CHASE Days ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He's rich, he's back with the love of his life, and best of all, he has the Time Gates, arguably the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could spoil this. .except the utter destruction of his people and the world they lived on. To save them, he has to make a new deal with the boss he just double-crossed, to travel...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our August 2024 issue features "Schools of Clay" by Derek Künsken, "The Woman Who Destroyed Us" by S.L. Huang, and "That Game We Played During the War" by Carrie Vaughn. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

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 January 2019 issue (#148) contains:Original fiction by Jamie Wahls ("Eater of Worlds"), Natalia Theodoridou ("One's Burden, Again"), Ray Nayler ("Fire in the Bone"), Derek Kunsken ("The Ghosts of Ganymede"), and Lavie Tidhar ("Venus in Bloom").Reprints by Marissa Lingen...

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 June 2025 issue (#225) contains:Fiction* "Emily of Emerald Starship" by Ng Yi-Sheng* "If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow" by Claire Jia-Wen* "In the Shells of Broken Things" by A. T. Greenblatt* "The Eighth Pyramid" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Faces of the Antipode" by Matthew Marcus

An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2025 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.· “Apartment Wars” by Vera Brook—the widow of a physicist, residing in a country short of living space for its citizens, finds a device that creates small pocket dimensions. This novella is a finalist for a 2025 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Award.· “ESRI” by J...

Brought to you by Penguin.Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home.In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of la colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving.But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections.At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antoni...