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 2025 issue (#229) contains:

Fiction

• "Wire Mother" by Isabel J. Kim
• "The Cancer Wolves" by Fiona Moore
• "Crabs Don't Scream" by H.H. Pak
• "Understudies" by Greg Egan
• "Giant Grandmother" by Liu Maijia
• "The Job Interview" by Carrie Vaughn
• "In Luck's Panoply Clad, I Stand" by Phoebe Barton

Non-Fiction

• "Space Bears and Engineering the Next Generation of Astronauts" by Gunnar De Winter
• "Memory, Loss, and Memory Loss: A Conversation with Rich Larson" by Arley Sorg
• "Technology as a Language: A Conversation with Ken Liu" by Arley Sorg
• "Editor's Desk: Nineteen" by Neil Clarke

Cover Art

• "Overgrowth" by Quentin Stipp