Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 210

eBook

English language

Published March 1, 2024 by Wyrm Publishing.

3 stars (1 review)

Fiction: - "Hello! Hello! Hello!" by Fiona Jones - "Phosphorescence" by Ben Berman Ghan - "Nine Beauties and the Entangled Threads" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires - "A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock" by Alaya Dawn Johnson - "One Flew Over the Songhua River" by Qi Ran, translated by Andy Dudak - "Her Body, The Ship" by Z. K. Abraham - "Geminoid" by Malena Salazar Maciá - "Swarm X1048 - Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, “6”" by F.E. Choe

Non-Fiction: - "In a Better Place: Virtual Reality Farming and Science Fiction" by Samantha Hind - "Globalized Literary Space: A Conversation with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay" by Arley Sorg - "Cultivating Communities: A Conversation with Izzy Wasserstein" by Arley Sorg - "Editor's Desk: The Best from 2023" by Neil Clarke

Cover Art: - "Ancestor" by Marco Zagara

2 editions

An average issue of Clarkesworld.

3 stars

An average issue with interesting stories by Fiona Jones, Ben Berman Ghan, Malena Salazar Maciá and F.E. Choe.

  • "Hello! Hello! Hello!" by Fiona Jones: an insubstantial alien being who can live in space discovers a solid object with a substantial living being inside. Its initial attempts to communicate don't go well, but over time, they begin to communicate. But a crisis develops when the substantial being stops moving, and the insubstantial alien has to find help in its own way.

  • "Phosphorescence" by Ben Berman Ghan: two people, a Machinist and a Botanist, work together to shape the future of a world deep in a climate crisis. While others dream of uploading themselves or migrating to another planet until the crisis is over, they have other plans.

  • "Nine Beauties and the Entangled Threads" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires: a researcher taking care of a forest gets a feeling that there is something …