Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our November 2014 issue contains: <ul> <li>Original Fiction by Matthew Kressel ("Cameron Rhyder's Legs"), Robert Reed ("Pernicious Romance"), and Ken Liu ("The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009").</li> <li>Classic stories by Pat Cadigan ("Cody") and Ken MacLeod ("The Vorkuta Event").</li> <li>Non-fiction by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Drugs in Science Fiction), an interview with Jo Walton, an Another Word column by Wesley Chu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.</li> </ul>

Clarkesworld Issue 98 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

REED, Robert

Liu, Ken

Clarke, Neil

Kressel, Matthew

Cadigan, Pat

Macleod,Ken

Science Fiction

Clarkesworld Magazine

King of Shards: Book One of The Worldmender Trilogy

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Senses Five Press

Product Description Queen Mashit has usurped the throne of Sheol from Ashmedai, who now swings in a cage above a river of fire. Mashit wants to bring life to Sheol and the myriad Shards—shattered universes where demons dwell in abject misery. Mashit has captured a quartet of Lamed Vav—special humans with the power to sustain universes—and tries force them to her will. Meanwhile, she sends her daughter, Daphna, to Earth, hoping to establish rule over humanity there. But Daphna, long estranged from her mother, is not keen on her mother’s schemes. And neither is the imprisoned Ashmedai. While Ashmedai and Daphna hatch plans of their own, Daniel Fisher, once a Lamed Vavnik himself but beset by a dark and all-consuming curse, travels to the far corners of Earth seeking a doorway to Sheol, determined to save humanity no matter the cost.Queen of Static continues the Worldmender Trilogy, a series that The Huffington Post has referred to as a “unique fantasy cosmos” and that NPR has said is a “feast for hardcore fantasy fans.”Praise for King of Shards“A surreal and exotic adventure in a unique mythological setting. Scary, exhilarating fun!” – N.K. Jemisin, multiple Hugo Award-winning author of The Broken Earth trilogy“His skill at extrapolating traditional religious lore into the stuff of fantasy bodes well for future books in the series.” — Publishers Weekly“With surprising twists and a deep and detailed universe, King of Shards, the first in a trilogy, is likely to be remembered for more than its Jewish roots.” – Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog Review Praise for King of Shards"A surreal and exotic adventure in a unique mythological setting. Scary, exhilarating fun!" - N.K. Jemisin, multiple Hugo Award-winning author of The Broken Earth trilogy"A fantastic twist on Jewish mythology...a radical reinvention of Jewish faith and folklore, not to mention the portal fantasy..." One city's rubble is the next city's foundation," Kressel writes. Not only does that simple, profound idea underpin King of Shards' plot, it's the method to the book's majestic, resonant, reality-twisting madness." - NPR Books"Kressel draws heavily on Hebrew legend and biblical lore to build a robustly imagined fantasy world...Kressel advances his plot briskly through a series of alliances, betrayals, separations, and reunions, and the veiled motives of several of his characters keep his story pleasingly unpredictable. His skill at extrapolating traditional religious lore into the stuff of fantasy bodes well for future books in the series." - Publishers Weekly"With surprising twists and a deep and detailed universe, King of Shards, the first in a trilogy, is likely to be remembered for more than its Jewish roots." - Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog About the Author MATTHEW KRESSEL is a writer and a software developer. He is a three-time Nebula Award Finalist, a World Fantasy Award Finalist, and a Eugie Award Finalist. NPR Books called his first novel King of Shards, Majestic, resonant reality-twisting madness. His many works of short fiction have appeared in such publications as Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Analog, Tor.com, Nightmare, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and multiple Year's Best anthologies, as well as many other anthologies and magazines. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Czech, Romanian, Polish, and Japanese. As a software developer, he created the Moksha submissions system (moksha.io), in use by many of the largest fiction publishers today. And he is the co-host of Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in New York beside Ellen Datlow.Find him at @mattkressel or at www.matthewkressel.net.

Queen of Static: Book Two of the Worldmender Trilogy

Across the ineffable expanse of the Great Deep float billions of shattered universes: the Shards. Populated with vengeful demons and tormented humans, the Shards need Earth to survive just as plants need water. Earth itself is kept alive by 36 righteous people, 36 hidden saints known as the Lamed Vav. Kill but a few of the Lamed Vav and the Earth will shatter, and all the Shards that rely upon it will die in a horrible cataclysm. When Daniel Fisher is abducted on his wedding day by the demon king, Ashmedai, he learns he is a Lamed Vav, one of the hidden righteous upholding the world. The demon Mashit has usurped the throne of demonkind from Ashmedai and has been systematically murdering the Lamed Vav. On a desert-covered Shard teeming with strange creatures, pursued by a fearsome demon army, Daniel and Ashmedai, saint and demon, must join forces to stop Mashit before she destroys all of existence. Daniel's survival means he must ally with evil Ashmedai. Yet who but a saint—a Lamed Vav—can save the world?

King of Shards (The Worldmender Trilogy)

Arche Press

From Atlantis to the Third Reich and beyond, these thirteen original cerebral tales of science fiction and horror explore the evils that abound when humanity wields extraordinary minds as weapons, whether to wage war or prevent it. Steeped in psychic savagery, telekinetic combat, and extrasensory espionage, PSI-WARS imagines corrupt governments and daring operatives, gods and soldiers and hackers and spies. The authors don't flinch when they peer around the darkest, most violent corners of the human psyche. Will you?

Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena

Acevedo, Mario

Iglesias, Gabino

Jones, Stephen Graham

Yu, E. Lily

Ferrell, Keith

Hodapp, Angie

Hammond, Warren

Rocksteady, Betty

Hex Publishers

Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

Historian Thomas Cahill argued that it was the Jewish people who invented the very concept of history as we know it. They were the first to perceive time not as an endless circle of life, death and rebirth, but as the flight of an arrow, on a linear path to somewhere from somewhere. But what if time is not one arrow, but a volley of arrows? What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction. Contributors include Jack Dann, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, Lavie Tidhar and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among many others!

Dann, Jack

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Reisman, Jessica

Shvartsman, Alex

Choi, Eric

Tidhar, Lavie

Weiss, Allan

Goldberg, James

Rosenbaum, Benjamin

Polack, Gillian

Takács, Bogi

Rafael, Rivqa

GOMEL, ELANA

LALUMIÈRE, CLAUDE

Silverberg,Robert

Garfinkle, Gwynne

Nurenberg, David

MAYNE, SEYMOUR

YOLEN, JANE

Latta, D.K.

Alter, Seth

Beaulier, Patrick

Dyen-Shapiro, Allan

Eden, Hunter C.

Grozny, Isak

McDaniel, C. L.

Nicholls, Jack

Sparber, Max

Verskin, Milton

World Literature

ChiZine Publications

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