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Mankind comes face to face with extraterrestrial life in this short fiction reprint anthology from Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke.
They Are Strangers from Far Lands . . .
Science fiction writers have been using aliens as a metaphor for the other for over one hundred years. Superman has otherworldly origins, and his struggles to blend in on our planet are a clear metaphor for immigration. Earth's adopted son is just one example...
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As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he's missing thirty percent of his memories, and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the "whales" floating in the planet's atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries...
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Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction.
From E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman, to George Lucas' Star Wars, the politics and process of Empire have been a major subject of science fiction's galaxy-spanning fictions. The idiom of the Galactic Empire allows science fiction writers to ask (and answer) questions that are shorn...
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The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).
The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them.
Generations...
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The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one's relationship to one's creator. Later versions of this "artificial human" story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein) changed the focus to more modernist questions… What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human? These stories continued through...
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our July 2024 issue (#214) contains:Original fiction by Tia Tashiro ("Every Hopeless Thing"), Amal Singh ("I Will Meet You When the Artifacts End"), Grant Collier ("The Best Version of Yourself"), Em X. Liu ("Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry"), Natalia Theodoridou ("Aktis Aeliou,...
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our September 2019 issue (#156) contains:Original fiction by Suzanne Palmer ("Dave's Head"), Bella Han ("Amorville"), M. L. Clark ("To Catch All Sorts of Flying Things"), Sara Saab ("Lapis"), and Gabriela Santiago ("Malinche").Non-fiction by Eleanna Castroianni,...
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our September 2024 issue (#216) contains:Original fiction by Marissa Lingen ("The Music Must Always Play"), Tiffany Xue ("Fish Fear Me, You Need Me"), Laura Williams McCaffrey ("Broken"), Eric Schwitzgebel ("How to Remember Perfectly"), Cirilo Lemos ("The Children I Gave You, Oxalaia"),...
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Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their tenth year. Includes stories by Cixin Liu, Kij Johnson, Seth Dickinson, Tamsyn Muir, Paul McAuley, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Xia Jia, Robert Reed, and many more!
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our May 2024 issue (#212) contains:Original fiction by Alice Towey ("Fishy"), Fiona Moore ("The Portmeirion Road"), Carolyn Zhao ("In Which Caruth is Correct"), Thomas Ha ("The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video"), Samara Auman ("The Texture of Memory, of Light"), Rajeev Prasad ("The Blinding...
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2024 issue (#213) contains:Original fiction by H.H. Pak ("Twenty-Four Hours"), Caroline M. Yoachim ("Our Chatbots Said "I Love You," Shall We Meet?"), S.B. Divya ("Artistic Encounters of a Monumental Nature"), Tan Gang ("The Reflection of Sand"), Carrie Vaughn ("Himalia"), Cat...
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our October 2024 issue (#217) contains:Original fiction by Abby Nicole Yee ("A Space O/pera"), Nigel Brown ("The Buried People"), Fiona Moore ("The Children of Flame"), Arula Ratnakar ("Fractal Karma"), Louis Inglis Hall ("Fishing the Intergalactic Stream"), Mike Robinson ("Midnight Patron"),...