Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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This episode features “Perfect Gun” written by Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Infinity Wars, edited by Jonathan Strahan, and reprinted in the November 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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This episode features “Operation Spring Dawn” written by Mo Xiong and translated by Rebecca Kuang. Published in the November 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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This episode features “Sentinel” written by Chang-Gyu Kim and translated by Charles La Shure. Published in the November 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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This episode features “Cloud-Born” written by Gregory Feeley. Published in the November 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 158 - Cloud-Born by Gregory Feeley [68:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (47610)

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 [...]

Skink changed direction toward a knot of weave that loomed ahead. She sailed easily between the withies dangling from the tunnel ceiling, moving with a speed and agility I could never hope to match.
“Go around,” I protested as I stumbled along the fern-choked floor after her. “It’s easier!”
As usual, she ignored me.
It had been days [...]

Tight Squeeze
That solo! Art blowing so hard and so hot, jumping out like a solar flare. Art, the only one of us with a real instrument, a beat-up old brass thing with the spit of two hundred years of play in it—and, well, sometimes we thought you could hear the difference. Oh, people said the [...]

I want the two images from Kraków to be first. May, love, poppet, if you outlive me and give a tinker’s damn—and I won’t hesitate to resurrect Ned Frye to harangue you if you don’t—you should remember.
You do not have my permission to colorize. You do have my permission to rearrange. They were taken in [...]

I pray to You, Mother Earth, Mama Earth, Mmê Earth:
Sun, hide your eye, eclipse your birth from our sins.
When Climate Change came,
It tore into Your womb, Mama Earth, sodomized it
—and we watched.
We stood and watched You, Mama, crying.
Still we didn’t listen:
We were the wildfires
The sky’s mouth was [...]