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 January 2023 issue (#196) contains:Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Symbiosis"), Gregory Feeley ("The Fortunate Isles"), R.T. Ester ("Anais Gets a Turn"), Cao Baiyu ("Reverie"), Natasha King ("Sharp Undoing"), and Felix Rose Kawitzky ("Pearl").Non-fiction includes an article by Ashley Deng, intervie...

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 September 2021 issue (#180) contains:Original fiction by Ray Nayler ("Yesterday''s Wolf"), Ziggy Schutz ("It is a Pleasure to Receive You"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Xiaolongbao: Soup Dumplings"), Robert Jeschonek ("Dog and Pony Show"), Regina Kanyu Wang ("The Winter Garden"), Gregory Feeley ("In a Net I Seek to ...

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 2022 issue (#193) contains:Original fiction by Lavie Tidhar ("Junk Hounds"), Elaine Gao ("Coding Van Gogh"), Thomas Ha ("Fly Free"), M. L. Clark ("Lost and Found"), Alan Kubatiev ("Fly Free"), Chu Shifan ("Giant Fish"), Gregory Feeley ("The Secret Strength of Things (A Nikkei Legend)"), and Jared Olive...

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 2020 issue (#169) contains:Original fiction by Brenda Cooper ("Callme and Mink"), Natalia Theodoridou ("To Set at Twilight In a Land of Reeds"), Gregory Feeley ("Wandering Rocks"), Greg Egan ("You and Whose Army?"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Last Wishes"), Xiu Xinyu ("All Living Creation"), and Adra...

In this suspenseful literary fantasy, two men on a ship bound for Great Britain face the wrath of disturbed spirits after raiding the Parthenon.On September 15, 1802, the English brig Mentor sailed from Piraeus, its hold filled with the "Elgin Marbles" -- the Classical Greek sculptures that Lord Elgin, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, had prised from the Parthenon in Athens. The ship was bound for Great Britain, where Elgin intended the sculptures to adorn...

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 April 2016 issue (#115)  contains: Original fiction by Carolyn Ives Gilman ("Touring with the Alien"), Gregory Feeley ("The Bridge of Dreams"), Sara Saab ("The Cedar Grid"), and Chen Qiufan ("Balin"). Reprints from Garth ...

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 November 2019 issue (#158) contains:Original fiction by Matthew Kressel ("Your Future is Pending"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Antarctica"), Gregory Feeley ("Cloud-Born"), Chang-Gyu Kim ("Sentinel"), and Mo Xiong ("Operation Spring Dawn").A reprint from Elizabeth Bear ("Perf...

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and ...

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer...

Winner of the National Book Award! Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that he learns the hideous nature of their experiments and his own chilling role in them. Set in Revolutionary Boston M. T. Andersons mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of tw...

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards, The New Space Opera, The Jack Vance Treasury, and a number of yea...

On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.Of the 21 men who entered the 3 flimsy whale-boats, only 8 ultimately survived to be rescued. A harrowing journey lasting 90 days awaited these crewmen, involving storms, shark-attacks, terrible privation, and in the last resort cannibalism.On h...