Lightspeed, April 2026 The narrator — known by the handle Six-Gun Vixen — is a deeply compelling outsider figure: a brown-skinned, six-armed, wolf-eared woman of South Asian origin, shadow-cursed and…
Lightspeed, April 2026 Zero Santos — nonbinary, biracial, working-class, and known to the crowds as Saint Zero of the Hollows — is a jousting knight fighting their way through a…
Lightspeed, April 2026 Dr. Jason Holloway — psychiatrist, three-time divorcee, recovering alcoholic, and self-diagnosed schizophrenic — arrives in Los Angeles to take on the role of Clinical Director at Margins…
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.…
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…
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…
Clarkesworld, April 2026 In a future where volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have driven humanity underground, the surface world is a memory and breathable air is a managed scarcity. People survive…
Clarkesworld, April 2026 Narrated entirely in the clipped, clinical voice of an alien researcher named Hecrimona, “Human Studies 401” unfolds as a set of research notes documenting one of the…
Clarkesworld, April 2026 Valentine is an AI companion — humanoid, skin-regenerating, professionally trained in the art of human emotional need. Her current client is Liam, a middle-aged man whose illness…
"D0G" by Tania Fordwalker: Guilt, Recursion, and the Ethics of Autonomous Weaponry in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Introduction Tania Fordwalker's novelette "D0G," published in Clarkesworld Magazine, arrives at a moment of unusual…