Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 208

eBook

English language

Published Feb. 1, 2024 by Wyrm Publishing.

3 stars (1 review)

Fiction: - "Scalp" by H.H. Pak - "The Flowers That We Intend To Share" by Rajeev Prasad - "The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin" by Zohar Jacobs - "Kardashev's Palimpsest" by David Goodman - "The Peregrine Falcon Flies West" by Yang Wanqing, translated by Jay Zhang - "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim - "The Beam Eidolon" by Ryan Marie Ketterer - "Lonely Ghosts" by Meghan Feldman

Non-Fiction: - "Eeriecology: What Nature Remembers and What It Tells Us" by Ben Lockwood - "When the World Changes: A Conversation with Wole Talabi" by Arley Sorg - "Tying Together Disparate Concepts: A Conversation with Bogi Takács" by Arley Sorg - "Editor's Desk: 2023 Readers' Poll Finalists" by Neil Clarke

Cover Art: - "Harvesters" by Pablo Munoz Gomez

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An average issue of Clarkesworld.

3 stars

An average issue, with interesting stories by Zohar Jacobs and Yang Wanqing.

  • "Scalp" by H.H. Pak: a young janitor does his job in a facility where people infected with an extreme addiction are sedated and put into virtual worlds to recover.

  • "The Flowers That We Intend To Share" by Rajeev Prasad: robots that take care of modified plants in a greenhouse began to develop awareness. The two sons of the parents who own the greenhouse are determined that the robots can explore the world, against the wishes of the parents.

  • "The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin" by Zohar Jacobs: set in an alternate world where the Soviet Union has a base on Enceladus, the story centres about the base commander who discovers that religion is becoming popular as the base, which is against Soviet principles. His attempts to stamp out it occur when a major discovery is …