A Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy. Estd. 2015.
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FICTION, POETRY & MORE
Two Visual Poems by Holly Lyn Walrath
How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong by Hester J. Rook
How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong Hester J. Rook Changes come sudden as storms - a crystalline stillness and then fat drops splatter across the steaming earth - onto rooves - into open windows (rainroar on corrugated iron loud as if it might drown the...
Three Poems by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Pear Tree I am turning into a pear tree. It has taken me months to realize it, but there are things that, after time, one can’t deny. My legs have become stiff and unyielding. Wooden, one might say, if one lacked tact. My bodily systems have begun to feel botanic,...
family (a form somehow must)
family (a form somehow must) Gwynne Garfinkle the cat vanishes forever between one episode and the next so does our beloved dog (we don't notice) the girls once had a different dad the boys, a different mom now they're gone never to be mentioned like the braces one of...
The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych
The idea for this triptych of poems was conceived when Layla, Holly, and Bonnie spent an evening at Santa Monica Pier in LA, where they had their futures foretold by a fortune-telling machine. Each writer's poem is directly inspired by her fortune, borrowing words,...
Instructions for Astronauts by Michael Janairo
Instructions for Astronauts Michael Janairo I. The People of the One Ship By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. — Genesis 3:19 Oh, Voyagers, Our...
Robots, Ghosts, and Dreams: Some Preoccupations of World SF
After reading a lot of speculative fiction in English translation over the past couple of years, I finally decided to make a subject index on my site (sfintranslation.com). Not surprisingly, I had found myself coming across the same preoccupations, obsessions, and...
Cixin Liu: Chinese Readers Care About the Whole Humanity
Read: Interview in Chinese Cixin Liu is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award, an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo), and a winner of the Chinese Nebula...
Fidelity, Meaning, and Metadata: Observations of a New Translator
Early in the process of my first translation for Clarkesworld, I wrestled with the issue of the protagonist’s name. Wu Kong（悟空）, ‘Awakened to Nothingness,’ was the religious name given to the Monkey King by his first master, perhaps to imbue the headstrong creature...
Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome by Oliver Langmead
Worldbuilding can be a dull affair. An attempt to survey a place that isn’t there can often result in writing that isn’t readable. For M. John Harrison [1], a work of fiction relying on worldbuilding does not invite readers to the text with the idea that reading is a...