Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 242

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  2026 issue (#242) contains:

Fiction
* "Twenty-Two Steps to Become Us" by Hannah Yang
* "The Meat Market" by Isabel J. Kim
* "The Exchange Service" by R.T. Ester
* "Trimmed From The Night" by Raahem Alvi
* "Black Ice Burning" by Rati Mehrotra
* "Then Is the Ghosts High Noon" by Eric Del Carlo
* "Twenty-Nine Days Before Remaking the World" by Mimi Mondal

Non-Fiction
* "Building a Better World Through Participatory Science" by W. L. Bolm
* "The Future Folding Into the Past: A Conversation with Xueting Christine Ni" by Arley Sorg
* "Thirty-Five Years and Into the Future: Diane L. Walton, Edward Willett, and the Legacy of On Spec Magazine" by Arley Sorg
* "Editor''s Desk: Tonight the Stars Are Shining Bright" by Neil Clarke

Cover Art
* "/ S 3 N T I N E L /" by Amir Zand