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In a Better Place: Virtual Reality Farming and Science Fiction by Samantha HindFrom the headless ChickieNobs of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake who feel no pain to the Ameglian Major Cow from The Hitchhiker’s...
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Globalized Literary Space: A Conversation with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay by Arley SorgBodhisattva Chattopadhyay was born and grew up in Delhi, surrounded by books and booklovers, in a family which included a brother who had written...
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Cultivating Communities: A Conversation with Izzy Wasserstein by Arley SorgIzzy Wasserstein was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. “I grew up in an Evangelical Christian community (though it is definitely not a...
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Editor's Desk: The Best from 2023 by Neil ClarkeEach year, we provide Clarkesworld readers with the opportunity to let us know which of our stories and cover art were their favorites from the...
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Scalp by H.H. PakHe is King Lear in the window’s sunshine. There is pastina boiling on the stove in a kitchen as familiar as his soul. Mad monologues push...
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The Flowers That We Intend To Share by Rajeev PrasadBodhi, who’d just turned seventeen, wanted nothing more than to ruin Devi Amma’s annual orchid showing, so, it was a pleasant shock to...
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The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin by Zohar JacobsThe sketch showed a young woman, her face a perfect oval, holding our base in her cupped hands. Behind her head, Saturn hung golden within its halo...
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Kardashev's Palimpsest by David GoodmanThere is a thought that the Seeker cannot complete. The Caravan orbits what was once a white dwarf star, the lonely beacon in the darkness that...
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The Peregrine Falcon Flies West by Yang Wanqing, translated by Jay ZhangThey ran and kept running, and soon enough their path took them into Xinjiang. It was a getaway with neither goal nor destination. Liang Yuan and...
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Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. KimSo they broke into the hole in the ground, and they killed the kid, and all the lights went out in Omelas: click, click, click. And the pipes burst...
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The Beam Eidolon by Ryan Marie KettererThe wind blows through me, around me, and I creep. Under, over, and around the trees, the leaves, the dirt. Today the star shines, and I absorb it...
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Lonely Ghosts by Meghan FeldmanSini and its ghosts watched DX782’s smallest moon slip below the horizon, and 7.83 milliseconds later, the communication ping arrived....
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Eeriecology: What Nature Remembers and What It Tells Us by Ben LockwoodWe still don’t know the true nature of nature. The history of life on Earth is long and, at least to some degree, mysterious. For over three...
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When the World Changes: A Conversation with Wole Talabi by Arley SorgWole Talabi was born and raised in Nigeria. He grew up on the outskirts of Warri and in Benin City before moving with his family to Lagos. His...
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Tying Together Disparate Concepts: A Conversation with Bogi Takács by Arley SorgBogi Takács was born in Győr, Hungary. E earned a master’s degree in Psychology (with a specialization in experimental and...
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Editor's Desk: 2023 Readers' Poll Finalists by Neil ClarkeIn late January, we held the first phase of our annual Clarkesworld Magazine Readers’ Poll for best short story, novelette/novella, and cover...
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Nothing of Value by Aimee OgdenFor anyone who’s used the Skip system to travel more than once or twice, delays are simply part of the process. The one following my transit...
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Down the Waterfall by Cécile CristofariOn nights when the time traveler’s body has knitted enough of itself back up, she remembers what it feels like to sleep like a human. She...
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Binomial Nomenclature and the Mother of Happiness by Alexandra Munck1 When I first came to Alamogordo-20, the pool wasn’t a popular spot. It sat in full blazing sun, not quite rectangular, concrete the color...
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Stars Don't Dream by Chi Hui, translated by John Chu1. The Shepherd April, Mawlamyine. The Shepherd leads her flock through a city half overgrown with weeds. Weeds overwhelm the railway bridge,...
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Just Another Cat in a Box by E.N. AuslenderThe call emerged from the deep of the system’s register. Electrical current flowed through the system, returning to the point of the last...
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Rail Meat by Marie VibbertIt wasn’t a glamorous entrée into the world of the rich. Ernestine jimmied a service door and climbed forty flights of dingy, bare metal...
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You Dream of the Hive by C. M. FieldsWhen they recovered your body, you started to scream. The retrieval team, nonplussed, shoved you in a pod, slammed the sound shutters, and peeled...
