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This issue features the following stories: "Prayer" by Robert Reed, "Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop" by Suzanne Church and "All the Things the Moon is Not" by Alexander Lumans. Non-fiction includes an interview with Michael J. Sullivan, an article on the fairy tale in the TV age by Alethea Kontis, and an Another Word column by Elizabeth Bear.

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This issue features the following stories: "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" by Tom Crosshill, "Draftyhouse" by Erik Amundsen and "The Womb Factory" by Peter M. Ferenczi. Non-fiction includes two round table discussions (world-building and speculative fiction in academia), an article on popular music and the end of the world by Brian Francis Slattery, and the launch of our Another Word column, written this month by Daniel Abraham.

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This issue features fiction by Margaret Ronald ("Sunlight Society"), Michael John Grist ("The Bells of Subsidence") and Gary Kloster ("From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit"), interviews with Nathan Long and John R. Fultz and an article on ruins by E. C. Ambrose.

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Fantastist Catherynne M. Valente takes on the folklore of artificial intelligence in this brand new, original novella of technology, identity, and an uncertain mechanized future. Neva is dreaming. But she is not alone. A mysterious machine entity called Elefsis haunts her and the members of her family, back through the generations to her great-great grandmother-a gifted computer programmer who changed the world. Together Neva and Elefsis navigate their history and their future, an uneasy, unwilling symbiote. But what they discover in their dreamworld might change them forever . . .

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This issue features fiction by Mari Ness ("And the Hollow Space Inside"), Xia Jia ("A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight") and Helena Bell ("All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions"), interviews with Lev Rosen and Lisa Hannett, an article on food in science fiction and fantasy by Matthew Johnson and the results of our annual reader's poll.

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The January 2012 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. This issue features fiction by Aliette de Bodard ("Scattered Along the River of Heaven"), Rahul Kanakia ("What Everyone Remembers") and Gwendolyn Clare ("All the Painted Stars"), an interview with Robert Jackson Bennett, an article on synthesizers in science fiction by Christopher Bahn and our annual reader's poll.

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This issue features fiction by Ben Peek ("Sirius"), Chris Stabback ("In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems") and Catherynne M. Valente (Part 3/3 of "Silently and Very Fast"), an interview with Aliette de Bodard, an article on the off-planet locations on Earth by Brenta Blevins and seasons greetings from the Clarkesworld staff.

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New York Times best-seller Catherynne M. Valente is the single most compelling voice to emerge in fantasy fiction in decades. Collected here for the first time, her early short novels explore, deconstruct, and ultimately explode the seminal myths of both East and West, casting them in ways you''ve never read before and may never read again. The Labyrinth - a woman wanderer, a Maze like no other, a Monkey and a Minotaur and a world full of secrets leading down to the Center of it All. Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams - an aged woman named Ayako lives in medieval Japan, but dreams in mythical worlds that beggar the imagination . . . including our own modern world. The Grass-Cutting Sword - when a hero challenges a great and evil serpent, who speaks for the snake? In this version of a myth from the ancient chronicle Kojiki, the serpent speaks for himself. Under in the Mere - Arthur and Lancelot, Mordred and le Fay. The saga has been told a thousand times, but never in the poetic polyphony of this novella, a story far deeper than it is long.

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This issue features fiction by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell ("A Militant Peace"), Lavie Tidhar ("The Smell of Orange Groves") and Catherynne M. Valente (Part 2 of "Silently and Very Fast"), a group discussion on The Weird, an article on English chap in SF by Nathaniel Tapley and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

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Last Drink Bird Head is a variation on a surrealist writing game: we gave the phrase to over 70 writers and asked them “Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head?” The results run the gamut from the hilarious to the terrifying, with each writer bringing their signature style and voice to the enterprise.

 
All proceeds on Last Drink go to ProLiteracy.org.

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Selected from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine, Realms 2 collects the work of twenty-four visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jeffrey Ford, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Tim Pratt, and Catherynne M. Valente — and amazing stories from up-and-comers like, Paul Jessup, Yoon Ha Lee, Margaret Ronald and many more!