Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Anarchy in action or a free society

Love, friendship, and real estate, thirty years after we all stop aging.

Let the world tell all the lies it wants; I was there in the Year of the Children, and I know the truth. This is how it happened.

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Miguel is a foolish, ill-informed, spoilt youth of the cyberscraper culture. It's Saturday night, and he's alone in the family apartment with the beautiful Maria Del Fuego. But what, exactly, does it take to turn her on?

Aden had never once forgotten his gear for bulk trash day, but he found it touching that Nura still taped a monthly reminder note on the door from the kitchen to the garage. Sweet of her to remember, given how exhausted med school had her these days. He ducked out to the garage to toss […]

Ellie Mathieu can tell when the Big Easy arrives by the smell of its engine.

In summer, the crack on the windowpane would align perfectly with the horizon, right around 2 p.m.

During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civil disorder or both. My Minneapolis block had always been reasonably friendly—people would take their kids around on […]