
Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine·Hosted by Kate Baker·1000 episodes
Science fiction and fantasy stories from Clarkesworld, a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning digital magazine. Stories from Clarkesworld have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Ditmar, Aurora, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press and Stoker Awards.
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Clarkesworld Magazine is a steady stream of polished science fiction and fantasy short stories from one of the genre's most respected digital magazines. Each episode is a complete story, usually read by Kate Baker, so listeners get literary speculative fiction without needing to follow a long plot arc. It is a strong fit for readers who like award-caliber short fiction, translated voices, strange futures, and stories that can be finished in one sitting.
Series(1)
Episodes
This episode features "Up the Line to Death" written by Carrie Vaughn. Published in the June 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vaughn_06_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Scent of Memory" written by Zhao Haihong and translated by S. Qiouyi Lu. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/zhao_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Decimation Circles" written by Raahem Alvi. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/alvi_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Aly" written by Grace Chan. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Paper Airplane Poet" written by Sheri Singerling. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/singerling_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Conquerors" written by Nick Wolven. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wolven_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler" written by Tia Tashiro. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods" written by Louis Inglis Hall. Published in the May 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_05_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Human Studies 401" written by Abby Nicole Yee. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yee_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Forgetting Code" written by Malena Salazar Maciá. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/macia_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Shelter" written by Nadia W. Aldsen. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/aldsen_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Eternity in Their Hearts" written by Katherine Khan. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/khan_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Trajectory of Memory is Forward" written by Rajeev Prasad. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "D0G" written by Tania Fordwalker. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fordwalker_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Macaroni Art in the Age of Filtration" written by Ryan Cole. Published in the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_04_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Person, Place, Thing" written by Marissa Lingen. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Those Who Left History" written by Wanxiang Fengnian and translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fengnian_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Scion: Afterword" written by Thomas Ha. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha2_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Scion" written by Thomas Ha. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Crosstalk, Elysium" written by Carolyn Zhao. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/zhao_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "First Human Ghost on Mars" written by R.L. Meza. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/meza_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Bend Like the Palm" written by David D. Levine. Published in the March 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/levine_03_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Three Fortunes on Alcestis as Told by the Fraud Baeliss Shudal" written by Louis Inglis Hall. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Painstaking" written by Rich Larson. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Iron Piper" written by Fiona Moore. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "A Sleeper Ship Is Like a Game of Go" written by Claire Jia-Wen. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Think of Me Before I Disappear" written by Raahem Alvi. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/alvi_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Chip" written by D.A. Xiaolin Spires. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/spires_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Remember Me in the Meat" written by Sarah Pauling. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/pauling_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Space is Deep" written by Seth Chambers. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chambers_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water" written by A. W. Prihandita. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Tomorrow's Beautiful Dream" written by Ju Chu and translated by Carmen Yiling Yan. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ju_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Je Ne Regrette Rien" written by James Patrick Kelly. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kelly_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Donor Unknown" written by Nika Murphy. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/murphy_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Down We Go Gently" written by M. L. Clark. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clark_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Stars You Can't See by Looking Directly" written by Samantha Murray. Published in the January 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_01_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Home Grown" written by Madeleine Vigneron. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vigneron_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "This Sepulchral Aegis" written by Rob Gillham. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gillham_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Between Here and Everywhere" written by Robert Reed. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Hole" written by Ferenc Samsa. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/samsa_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Cold Burns" written by Anne Wilkins. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilkins_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Imperfect Simulations" written by Michelle Z. Jin. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jin_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Tomorrow. Today." written by R.T. Ester. Published in the December 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ester_12_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Fire Burns Anyway" written by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ashing-giwa_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Ratlines" written by Brent Baldwin. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/baldwin_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Prerequisites for the Creation of a Possible Predicted World" written by Chisom Umeh. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/umeh_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Trees at Night" written by Ramiro Sanchiz and translated by Sue Burke. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Spanish in Ruido Blanco #9, 2021. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sanchiz_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Apologists" written by Tade Thompson. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/thompson_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "Jade Fighter" written by D.A. Xiaolin Spires. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/spires_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
This episode features "The Stone Played at Tengen" written by R.H. Wesley. Published in the November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wesley_11_25 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership
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