'A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives...

'Brilliantly and chillingly imagined'Guardian'Explored with wit, thoughtfulness and emotional weight' Spectator As a historian in the bleak, climate-ravaged twenty-third century, it's Zoe's job to...

Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning Author'An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent... Beckett offers an intelligent, visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like, tomorrow...

Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African PoetryThis is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and language....

A Tenderfoot is a novice, someone unaccustomed to hardship. Here, he is a white boy growing up in 1960s Ethiopia, a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness. Later he hears rumours...

Angie Redlantern is the first to spot the boats - five abreast with men in metal masks and spears standing proud, ready for the fight to come. As the people of New Earth declare war on the people of Mainground,...

THE WINNER OF THE 2013 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST NOVEL CATEGORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST COVER DESIGN (SI...

Mother of Eden has been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award, 2015. 'We speak of a mother's love, but we forget her power. Power over life. Power to give...

Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions... old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'. Ethiopia...

The fascinating Eden trilogy, now, for the first time, collated as one e-bookFirst novel in the Eden trilogy, won the extremely prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the...

The fascinating new novel from Chris Beckett, the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author. 'Tomorrow I'm going to begin my novel...' A would-be author has taken time out from life in the city to...

George Simling has grown up in the city-state of Illyria, an enclave of logic and reason founded as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism that swept away the nations of the twenty-first...

A thought-provoking collection of contemporary short stories from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award 2013. Chris Beckett's thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of contemporary short...

L'anneau de la tourmente. La race humaine s'est étendue sur Eden, la planète sans lumière : après s'être affrontés, les partisans de John ont fini par traverser Monde-Étang tandis que ceux de David occupent...

Bienvenue sur Dark Eden, la planète sans lumière. Au cours d'une expédition, des astronautes s'échouent sur une planète, qui ne doit sa chaleur et sa lumière qu'à la bioluminescence de sa flore et à...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy 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 October...