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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 216, September 2024

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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 216, September 2024

Penned By Neil Clarke
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Editor's Note:
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 September 2024 issue (#216) contains:* Original fiction by Marissa Lingen ("The Music Must Always Play"), Tiffany Xue ("Fish Fear Me, You Need Me"), Laura Williams McCaffrey ("Broken"), Eric Schwitzgebel ("How to Remember Perfectly"), Cirilo Lemos ("The Children I Gave You, Oxalaia"), Ben Berman Ghan ("Those Who Remember the World"), Renan Bernardo ("A Theory of Missing Affections"), and R H Wesley ("A World of Milk and Promises").* Non-fiction includes an article by Gunnar De Winter, interviews with Aliette de Bodard and A.C. Wise, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

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