Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 241

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 October 2026 issue (#241) contains:

Fiction
* "A Vintage Kind of Death" by Alex T. Singer
* "The Mari Lwyd" by Fiona Moore
* "How Does One Person Kill a Mountain?" by Shi Heiyao
* "The Job" by Elizabeth Bear
* "Five Bottles in Memory of the Winemaker Petronius Finch" by Louis Inglis Hall
* "Roams the Planet of Our Grief" by Natalia Theodoridou
* "The Rice Paper Bleed" by Tia Tashiro

Non-Fiction
* "Dragonflies and Spaceship Design" by Gunnar De Winter
* "Afrocommunitarian Philosophy and Aliens: A Conversation with Wole Talabi" by Arley Sorg
* "Unlearning Helplessness: A Conversation with Yoon Ha Lee" by Arley Sorg
* "Editor's Desk: In Our Twenties" by Neil Clarke

Cover Art
* "Labyrinths of Azarax" by Marcel Deneuve