Ian R. MacLeod : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ian R MacLeod has been writing and selling stories and novels of speculative and fantastic fiction for almost thirty years. Amongst many accolades, his work has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award (twice) and the Sidewise Award for alternate fiction (three times). He took a Law degree and drifted into the English Civil Service, but writing was always his first love and ambition. He has recently released a short story collection, Frost On Glass, and has a new novel, Red Snow, due out shortly.He lives in the riverside town of Bewdley, in the United Kingdom.

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Ian R. MacLeod has the following works available at Clarkesworld:

The Discovered Country

REPRINT FICTION by Ian R. MacLeod in Issue 126 – March 2017

The trees of Farside are incredible. Fireash and oak. Greenbloom and maple. Shot through with every color of autumn as late afternoon sunlight blazes over the Seven Mountains’ white peaks. He’d never seen such beauty as this when he was alive. The virtual Bentley takes the bridge over the next gorge at a tire-scream, then […]

Nevermore

REPRINT FICTION by Ian R. MacLeod in Issue 95 – August 2014

Now that he couldn’t afford to buy enough reality, Gustav had no option but to paint what he saw in his dreams. With no sketchpad to bring back, no palette or cursor, his head rolling up from the pillow and his mouth dry and his jaw aching from the booze he’d drunk the evening before—which […]