Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy (2024)

Fishy had been sitting all alone on its shelf for ten days when the woman walked in. She had long, curly black hair pulled back in a ponytail and wore […]

Morag took her walking stick and set out on the Portmeirion Road. Portmeirion was behind her and she was walking back towards Pen-y-Groes, so she supposed she should call it […]

You’re not meant to fix what happens in the time loops. Doctor’s orders, and that comes even before they give you the survey and the spiel and the confidentiality speech. […]

At first I thought something had broken in my book. I didn’t notice until the afternoon light from the windows began to recede. I tried to increase the brightness settings […]

As my implants processed and transformed the scene in front of me from moment to memory, the silky iridescence of an oil slick slid over my field of vision. With […]

Hands trembling, Shiv Mehta snatched the print copy of his wife’s ribcage off the conveyor belt and lowered the print into an organ tank. Those hands had healed thousands of […]

Alice wants to hold a funeral for me, which is disconcerting because I’m not dead. But humans, like all aliens—and certainly all single-forms—have their own idiosyncrasies. I’m used to the […]

I think of you most when the sun sets on Atlas. The skies are so bright there you can feel the colors on your skin. I find myself repeating this […]

They even took the violins. Every last one of them: Amadeus, Josephine, Mulberry, Nestor. They came into the house through the front door, guests without a host, a peculiar band […]

There are seven hundred aliens hidden in Miko’s backpack, and the Galactic Security Agent currently studying her passport (hopefully) has no clue. The agent is an alien themselves, some tentacular […]

Holli was hanging upside down off the edge of her flimsy folding bed, watching goretoons in her goggles, when Puck the Pirate showed up again. Ahoy, Holli! Guess what? His […]

Through the cracked, moldering ribs of the alien planet sprouted a life reborn. Or something similar. Mealy stalks of bone white vegetation, thorns like scythes, a whole forest—a whole world—of […]

One day, a part of the city moved that shouldn’t have. Mistaking it for an earthquake, the half-dozen people there wobbled to brace themselves with flailing arms. The shaking went […]

Sails spread wide, Ruby (RB165 Mining Unit Eta) rode the solar wind. O1339 was only an hour away now. Navigation tracked the route; Construction busied itself with reprint codes, readying […]