Annex by Benjanun SriduangkaewOn the eve of Samutthewi’s entry into the Costeya Hegemony, Esithu was sloughing off the shell of th...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Annex by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
No Portraits on the Sky by Kali WallaceThe stranger fell from the sky just after dawn. Rela heard the snap of branches and looked up. The s...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014No Portraits on the Sky by Kali Wallace
Spar (The Bacon Remix) by Kij Johnson[Editor’s note: In 2009, we published Kij Johnson's Nebula Award-winning story, “Spar.” In 2013, she...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Spar (The Bacon Remix) by Kij Johnson
Guest of Honor by Robert ReedOne of the robots offered to carry Pico for the last hundred meters, on its back or cradled in its p...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Guest of Honor by Robert Reed
Finisterra by David Moles1. Encantada Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the su...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Finisterra by David Moles
Gathered in Translation by Ken LiuSince speculative fiction is about imagined worlds, one might theorize that it poses fewer problems ...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Gathered in Translation by Ken Liu
Across the Terminator by David Tallerman“I’m telling you, it’s alive!” Fasbender shook the flask as though it really were some living thing ...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Across the Terminator by David Tallerman
Pockets Full of Stones by Vajra ChandrasekeraThe ghost of my grandfather Rais flickered when he talked about first contact. He was a decade young...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Pockets Full of Stones by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm by Dar...The 22nd Invasion of Trovenia began with a streak of scarlet against a gray sky fast as the flick of...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm by Dar...
The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonaldWhen I was a small, a steel monkey would come into my room. My ayah put me to bed early, because a g...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald
Found by Alex Dally MacFarlaneStar Anise Star anise was the contents of one drawer in my spice cabinet: was worth one good energy ...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Found by Alex Dally MacFarlane
Cry of the Kharchal by Vandana SinghShe was no more than a breath, a tongue of air, tasting, sensing, divining. She swept through the ho...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Cry of the Kharchal by Vandana Singh
Shepherds by Greg KurzawaThe lioness ambushed Abel’s flock as he herded them down from the high pastures. Dropping soundlessl...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Shepherds by Greg Kurzawa
The Lovers by Eleanor ArnasonThere was a woman of the Ahara. She came of a good line within the lineage1 and grew up to be tall a...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Lovers by Eleanor Arnason
Cilia-of-Gold by Stephen BaxterAD 3948 The people—though exhausted by the tunnel’s cold—had rested long enough, Cilia-of-Gold decid...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Cilia-of-Gold by Stephen Baxter
Mar Pacifico by Greg MellorA pale dawn spread across the Pacific as my dead mother emerged from the waves. The bloom of algeron...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Mar Pacifico by Greg Mellor
The Promise of Space by James Patrick KellyCapture 06/15/2051, Kerwin Hospital ICU, 09:12:32 . . . and my writer pals used to tease that I marr...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Promise of Space by James Patrick Kelly
One Flesh by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth BourneAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem. —Walt Whitman Jupiter’s immense horizon appears flat as a...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014One Flesh by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne
Out of Copyright by Charles SheffieldTroubleshooting. A splendid idea, and one that I agree with totally in principle. Bang! One bullet, ...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Out of Copyright by Charles Sheffield
First Principle by Nancy KressHe was even bigger than I expected. All three of them were. Barb and I watched on the link screen as...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014First Principle by Nancy Kress
The Symphony of Ice and Dust by Julie Novakova“It’s going to be the greatest symphony anyone has ever composed,” said Jurriaan. “Our best work. So...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Symphony of Ice and Dust by Julie Novakova
The Ki-anna by Gwyneth JonesIf he’d been at home, he’d have thought, Dump Plant Injuries. In the socially unbalanced, pioneer ci...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Ki-anna by Gwyneth Jones
A Night at the Tarn House by George R.R. Marti...Through the purple gloom came Molloqos the Melancholy, borne upon an iron palanquin by four dead Deo...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014A Night at the Tarn House by George R.R. Marti...
The Aftermath by Maggie ClarkOn impact you start to lose the details. The smell of the bright white room you were first held in. ...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Aftermath by Maggie Clark
Mystic Falls by Robert ReedThere might be better known faces. And maybe you can find a voice that rides closer to everyone’s co...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Mystic Falls by Robert Reed
Manifest Destiny by Joe HaldemanThis is the story of John Leroy Harris, but I doubt that name means much to you unless you’re pretty...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Manifest Destiny by Joe Haldeman
Never Dreaming (In Four Burns) by Seth Dickins...trans-mortal injection: t+1 day “I’m going to lose the ability to dream,” Nur Zaleha tells her best ...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Never Dreaming (In Four Burns) by Seth Dickins...
Sapir-Whorf Must Die by Anaea LayWhat do telekinesis, brain hacking, and large scale cultural transformation have in common? The Sapi...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Sapir-Whorf Must Die by Anaea Lay
The Pure Product by John KesselI arrived in Kansas City at one o’clock on the afternoon of the thirteenth of August. A Tuesday. I w...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014The Pure Product by John Kessel
Special Economics by Maureen F. McHughJieling set up her boombox in a plague-trash market in the part where people sold parts for cars. Sh...Stories#Clarkesworld Magazine#Magazine#Free Fiction Stories 📖·clarkesworldmagazine.com·Jun 4, 2014Special Economics by Maureen F. McHugh