“The Scent of Memory” by Zhao Haihong, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu – 3.8
Clarkesworld, May 2026 Shijun wakes on a Greyhound bus crossing the Canadian Rockies, an amber bottle of perfume in his bag and a message from his friend Jiayuan flashing on…
“The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods” by Louis Inglis Hall – 3.4
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story unfolds as a series of monologues addressed by a refrigerator — designated “Buddy” — to a newly activated light switch on its first day of…
“Paper Airplane Poet” by Sheri Singerling – 4.0
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story opens on Tillie, a twenty-one-year-old low blood woman standing outside her family’s home in the crowded lower city of Simetria while her father is being…
“Wireworks” by Sheri Singerling – 4.6
Clarkesworld, September 2025 Calista is nearly twenty and paralyzed by grief. A month ago her mother died by suicide — leaping from the cliffs above the beach at Étretat —…
“Conquerors” by Nick Wolven – 3.7
Clarkesworld, May 2026 “Conquerors” unfolds across a single Reunion Day in a far-future Earth where humanity has split into two distinct cultures: Grounders, who tend the planet’s restored ecosystems from…
“Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler” by Tia Tashiro – 4.4
Clarkesworld, May 2026 Teresa is a Canadian archaeologist working the interior caves of northern Brazil, returning from maternity leave with her infant son Daniel strapped to her chest. At an…
“Aly” by Grace Chan – 3.7
Clarkesworld, May 2026 “Aly” is a four-part novelette by Grace Chan, structured in dated sections spanning 2075 to 2078, set in a climate-controlled Melbourne divided into sealed residential Zones. Its…
“The Trajectory of Memory is Forward” by Rajeev Prasad – 3.4
Clarkesworld, April 2026 “The Trajectory of Memory is Forward” is a sprawling, biopunk novella set in a far-future Earth scarred by climate catastrophe, radical genetic engineering, and centuries of exploitation.…
“The Forgetting Code” by Malena Salazar Macía – 3.8
Clarkesworld, April 2026 On an orbital station adrift somewhere in the quiet of space, an old man named Joel has spent his life helping others forget. His gift is technical…
“Shelter” by Nadia W. Aldsen – 3.1
Clarkesworld, April 2026 The story unfolds at Chaska Punku Space Port in the Atacama Desert of Chile, where an unnamed social worker — employed under a punishing contract with the…