What does it mean to be human in a universe of shifting, sometimes terrifying realities? Eighteen stories from Jack Skillingstead's second decade of publishing feature intense and surprising explorations of who we are, who we wish to be, and who we can't be.In "The Whole Mess" a genius math professor solves a multiverse equation only to find himself pursued by ancient Masters across the many iterations of his could-have-been lives. "Straconia" gives us a Kafkaesque world where all ...

This dynamic collection of 27 stories offers a wealth of fantastical and horrifying settings. Life after death, digital personalities, alien invasion, and Lovecraftian horror. It includes "Life on the Preservation," the basis for Skillingstead's Philip K. Dick nominated novel of the same name. In the title story, a parapolice detective in hot pursuit of a serial killer receives help from a responsive memory module of the killer's mother, but soon discovers that he might be falling in love ...

This dynamic collection of 27 stories offers a wealth of fantastical and horrifying settings. Life after death, digital personalities, alien invasion, and Lovecraftian horror. It includes “Life on the Preservation,” the basis for Skillingstead’s Philip K. Dick nominated novel of the same name. In the title story, a parapolice detective in hot pursuit of a serial killer receives help from a responsive memory module of the killer’s mother, but soon discovers that he might be falling in love ...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our May 2017 issue features a novella by Paul J. McAuley ("Sea Change, with Monsters"), a short story by Jack Skillingstead ("Life on the Preservation"), and a novelette by Nancy Kress (...

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 December 2024 issue features "Come the Revolution" by Ian Tregillis, "Winters are Hard" by Steven Popkes, and "Dead Worlds" by Jack Skillingstead. 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 September 2016 issue (#120) contains:Original stories by Jack Skillingstead ("The Despoilers"), Jennifer Campbell-Hicks ("Aphrodite's Blood, Decanted"), Rich Larson ("The Green Man Cometh"), Liu Yang ("The Opposite and the Adjacent"), Bogi Takacs ("Toward the Luminous Towers"), a...

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 February 2023 issue features "The Metric" by David Moles, "Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!" by Madeline Ashby, and "Dream Interpretation" by Jack Skillingstead. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

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 December 2025 issue features "One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit" by Dominica Phetteplace, "Deriving Life" by Elizabeth Bear, "The Whole Mess" by Jack Skillingstead. 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 March 2016 issue (#114) contains:Original stories by Jack Skillingstead ("Salvage Opportunity"), A.C. Wise ("Seven Cups of Coffee"), Leena Likitalo ("The Governess with a Mechanical Womb"), Kij Johnson ("Coyote Invents the Land of the Dead"), and Gu Shi ("Chimera").Repr...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by A. Merc Rustad ("Later, Let's Tear Up the Inner Sanctum") and Jack Skillingstead ("The Last Garden"), along with SF repri...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, our cover art is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating new science fiction from Dale Bailey ("The Horror of Party Beach"). We also have new SF from Molly Tanzer ("...

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 2017 issue (#133)  contains: Original fiction by Jack Skillingstead ("The Sum of Her Expectations"), Natalia Theodoridou ("The Nightingales in Platres"), Finbarr O'Reilly ("The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon"), Xia Jia ("The Psychology Game"),  Genevieve Va...