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Overview: 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 December 2022 issue (#195) contains:Original fiction by Naim Kabir ("Law of Tongue"), Bri Castagnozzi ("Keiki’s Pitcher Plant"), Ben Berman Ghan ("The Resting Place of Trees"), S.L. Huang ("Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness"), Lu Ban ("Upstart"), Vandana Singh ("Left to Die"), Laney Gaughan ("To Exorcise Mechanical Ghosts"), and Alex Sobel ("The Lightness").Non-fiction includes an article by Julie Novakova, interviews with Bora Chung & Anton Hur and Lisa Yaszek, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

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Pages 225
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Publisher Wyrm Publishing
Published December 1, 2022
ISBN 64644050
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