Science Fiction & Fantasy

I skate around the iridescent lake, bobbing my head along to the eerie laser noises the ice makes, when it gives way to pressure. The colossal plasticine walls shoot up before me and I shield my eyes from the rays of sun poking through the microlattice ceiling net. I count ten visitors already today, and [...]

I found her asleep on my doorstep on a wet June night in Tokyo, in the drizzle of tsuyu, the season of plum rains. It was two thirty in the morning, and I was on my way out for a drink to help with the insomnia I’d had since returning to Earth five days earlier. [...]

Jess: That myth’s as old as Earth, babe. Maybe it’ll take longer, but you can translate anything.
Kap: Sure, but with the same efficiency?
Jess: Ha! Haven’t you ever heard Seli? When’s language ever been efficient?
Kap: No, but, see, that’s the dream—the idea that another culture, in just a handful of syllables, can describe the same [...]

To honor the fruit they had spilled, meals were taken in silence.
The dining hall was a sea of undyed linen and cropped hair, enclosed in soaring concrete walls. Slits in the tiled roof flooded the low tables with light, so the diners did not crowd each other, and, in doing so, commit violence.
Anju tried to [...]

January 2Today’s Album: Crash the Colony, by Desert Tsunami
I spent the first half of the day comparing caskets. I’d never organized a funeral before, but I knew the body had to go somewhere.
The front-runner offered a protective layer of hand-engraved silica tiles. A good casket needed to look like it could survive reentry. Odds were [...]

This episode features “What Happens in Solarium Square 21″ written by Ashleigh Shears. Published in the May 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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This episode features “Angel Pattern” written by Henry Szabranski. Published in the April 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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This episode features “Debtless” written by Chen Qiufan. Published in the April 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by James Patrick Kelly. Originally published in Chinese in The Promising Land anthology. Translated by Blake Stone-Banks.

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This episode features “The ThoughtBox” written by Tlotlo Tsamaase. Published in the April 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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This episode features “A System for Investigating Recapitulation and Evolutionary Novelty” written by Kyle E Miller. Published in the April 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.

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