In 1946 he arrives in California, crippled and unable to function. He renames himself Stephen, and sets out to acquire an education and a career, reaching out for the love and life he knows he deserves....

On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the English exploration...

Every person, place and thing in fiction needs a name. This book helps you find them.One of the ongoing chores for a writer is naming: naming people, places, or things. This book is designed to help every...

Calla Ang has always known her own power. Her grandmother is the dictator of Jalanesia in Southeast Asia, and Calla's future is to follow in her footsteps.But after the Victorian time traveler Jack Wragsland...

What is time travel good for? Well, you need never lose. Redo that failure, rerun that war, reboot that relationship, until it flies. You can do and be whatever you desire. No one will know -- no one...

Marian's daughter Lottie is heartbroken when her fiancé becomes enmeshed in an American religious cult. They race off to Virginia to rescue him, carrying with them Marian's profligate nephew Wally, who...

In 1849 Walter Hartright was one of the few survivors of an expedition to British Honduras. Now a letter, pleading for rescue, has arrived from Sir Ambridge Skyllington, the lead explorer. Is it truly...

Marian's royal pirate husband was murdered, leaving her a perilous legacy: his son. Now Marian must fulfil his dying wish, to raise the orphan and restore him to his throne in Asia. As Zed Saylor, the...

A desperate father hides a little slip of solid gold in the back of an artist's canvas.It is a token, the clue to a vast international conspiracy to assassinate a world leader and change the course of...

For years publisher Theophilus Camlet has been discreetly distributing a pamphlet with some of the most incendiary information in Victorian England: birth control. When he is arrested for distributing...

To a child, the world is a bright and innocent place. But while their famous mother Marian Halcombe is in Asia, William Camlet and his older sister Lester take turns recounting an adventure that took...

Can it be that the fearsome master criminal Count Fosco yet lives? Marian Halcombe Camlet learns that Fosco escaped vengeance and has sold her husband Theo into captivity, winding his plots around everyone...

When her husband Theo dies, Marian Halcombe Camlet's heart breaks. Her plan is to wear black and dwindle away into her grave. But then her brother reveals her late husband's deathbed request: Theo wants...

Marian Halcombe Camlet wakes up in a strange bedroom, in a house she does not recognize. She has a new name, and a job, as the companion to the Dowager Countess of Brecon and Stowe, on the vast estate...

Marian Halcombe Camlet has just given birth to her first son, so it's not a good time for crisis. But her older stepson has run away from his abusive boarding school. And a fortune in diamonds and pearls,...

What good is time travel anyway? For Col. Ben Ming, head of Jalanesia's armed forces and husband of President Calla Ang, it's nothing but a headache. Time Traveler Jack Wragsland transported Calla to...

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 July 2023 issue (#202) contains:...