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 November 2025 issue (#230) includes: Fiction "The Stone Played at Tengen" by R.H. Wesley "Jade Fighter" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires "The Apologists" by Tade Thompson "Trees at Night" by Ramiro Sanchiz "Prerequisites for the Creation of a Possible Predicted World" by Chisom Umeh "Ratlines" by Brent Baldwin "The Fire Burns Anyway" by Kemi Ashing-Giwa Non-Fiction "What is the Retirement Age of a Jedi?" by João Pedro de Magalhães "Breaking A Conversation with K.A. Teryna" by Arley Sorg "Needing to Make Sense of the A Conversation with R.T. Ester" by Arley Sorg "Editor's Four from our Readers" by Neil Clarke Cover Art "Neo Mars" by Guy Warley
Author
Neil Clarke is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine. Launched in October 2006, the online magazine has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine four times (winning three times), the World Fantasy Award four times (winning once), and the British Fantasy Award once (winning once). Neil is also a ten-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form (winning once in 2022), three-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and a recipient of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. In the fifteen years since Clarkesworld Magazine launched, numerous stories that he has published have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press, and Stoker Awards. Additionally, Neil edits Forever—a digital-only, reprint science fiction magazine he launched in 2015. His anthologies include: Upgraded, Galactic Empires, Touchable Unreality, More Human than Human, The Final Frontier, Not One of Us, The Eagle has Landed, , and the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. His next anthology, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven will published in early 2023. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.
