Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 229
ByPublisher Description
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 2025 issue (#229) contains:
Fiction
- "Wire Mother" by Isabel J. Kim
- "The Cancer Wolves" by Fiona Moore
- "Crabs Don't Scream" by H.H. Pak
- "Understudies" by Greg Egan
- "Giant Grandmother" by Liu Maijia
- "The Job Interview" by Carrie Vaughn
- "In Luck's Panoply Clad, I Stand" by Phoebe Barton
Non-Fiction
- "Space Bears and Engineering the Next Generation of Astronauts" by Gunnar De Winter
- "Memory, Loss, and Memory Loss: A Conversation with Rich Larson" by Arley Sorg
- "Technology as a Language: A Conversation with Ken Liu" by Arley Sorg
- "Editor's Desk: Nineteen" by Neil Clarke
Cover Art
- "Overgrowth" by Quentin Stipp
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