Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 242, November 2026

FICTION

• "Twenty-Two Steps to Become Us" by Hannah Yang, AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker
• "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 C. 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