The mob has inventions from the Omega Book and Cless now has pages of it. Inventions and pages that nobody in this day and age should have. Everything Alexander feared has come true, and he must resort to desperate measures, even if it means having his own son Brady use the most advanced machine created by the book. A machine that could kill him. But the book must be destroyed and by any means necessary!

Brady has learned his father isn't the failure he believed, and he's not happy about it. On top of that, the mob has shown up to collect the percentage of the Omega Book that they believe they're owed, and they have no qualms about killing Brady to get it. Brady is thereby forced to unlock more secrets of the book to protect himself and the world from knowledge that nobody should have in this day and age.

Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly has spent the last thirty years thinking about robots. In the twelve stories of The Book of Bots they take many forms. Some look like humans or are embodied in spaceships. One is a house and another is a car. Several exist only in cyberspace. Two are visitors from the future. They are caretakers and lovers, explorers and financial advisors. All have been created to serve, but also have personal agendas that arise from a fier...

The Omega Book has the secrets of the universe in it. All of them. And the priest Brady Parsons has just inherited pages of it from his father.But now, everyone wants what's that knowledge, they'll do anything to get it, and if the book falls into the wrong hands it will end the world. No, the universe.To stop that from happening, Brady enters a world of science and mystery he never imagined, he'll see and do things that nobody has ever seen or done, and he'll uncover the t...

World Enders is a brutal, manga-inspired epic that fuses the relentless action of Mad Max: Fury Road with the dark humor and moral weight of Suicide Squad. In the ruins of the eighth apocalypse, four unforgettable anti-heroes take on the ultimate job: euthanizing the last survivors of humanity—and detonating a doomsday bomb to put Earth out of its misery.The end of the world isn’t coming. It’s already here. Eight apocalypses have ravaged Earth, and humanity has lim...

Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headl...

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 2026 issue (#232) contains:Fiction* "The Stars You Can't See by Looking Directly" by Samantha Murray* "Down We Go Gently" by M. L. Clark* "Donor Unknown" by Nika Murphy* "Je Ne Regrette Rien" by James Patrick Kelly* "Tomorrow's Beautiful Dream" by Ju Chu* "The ...

The mission: to survey the galaxy and beyond. An endless stream of probes and starships heading out into the universe, surveying, cataloguing, assaying. Forever. And on board those ships, the intrepid explorers who give it all meaning.Grace's Family by James Patrick Kelly is a Tor.com Original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 October 2016 issue (#121)  contains: Original stories by Robert Reed ("The Next Scene"), James Patrick Kelly ("One Sister, Two Sisters, Three"), Chi Hui ("The Calculations of Artificials"), Genevieve Valentine ("Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home"), and  Nnedi O...

Nebula Award WinnerHugo Award NomineeBurn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.”—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday BookThe tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests.But even believers find temptations in the bl...

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 November 2022 issue features "Contagion's Eve at the House Noctambulous" by Rich Larson, "At the Fall" by Alex Nevala-Lee, and "Your Boyfriend Experience" by James Patrick Kelly. 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 August 2018 issue (#143) contains:Henry Szabranski ("The Veilonaut''s Dream"), R.S.A. Garcia ("The Anchorite Wakes"), Robert Reed ("Kingfisher"), Kij Johnson ("The Privilege of the Happy Ending"), Hao Jingfang ("The Loneliest Ward&quot...