Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 229, October 2025

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) includes:

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 Maiji
a"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 A Conversation with Rich Larson" by Arley Sorg
"Technology as a A Conversation with Ken Liu" by Arley Sorg
"Editor's Nineteen" by Neil Clarke

Cover Art

"Overgrowth" by Quentin Stipp