Science Fiction & Fantasy

This episode features “An Important Failure” written by Rebecca Campbell. Published in the August 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 167 - An Important Failure by Rebecca Campbell [65:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (32515)

It’s 1607 (according to some calendars) and a falling cone from an elderly Pinaceae sitchensis catches on the rotting bark of a nurse log that sprouted while Al-Ma’mun founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. On this particular north Pacific island, the days are cold, and the water in Kaatza—the big lake near where this [...]

This episode features “Such Thoughts Are Unproductive” written by Rebecca Campbell. Published in the December 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 159 - Such Thoughts Are Unproductive by Rebecca Campbell [46:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (95013)

The woman whom I sometimes believed to be my mother flickered. Once. Twice. Her face—smiling—froze in a cloud of pixels, while her arm—the wide, emphatic gestures that were as much a marker of her identity as the color of her eyes or her fingerprints—swept the screen, leaving blue eddies, whirlpools of information. Then silence, but [...]