2020 Clarkesworld Stories

“Helicopter Story” by Isabel Fall (Novelette, 1/2020) (This is the replacement title for the story published in our January 2020 issue and later withdrawn by the author.)
“Monster” by Naomi Kritzer (Novelette, 1/2020)
“The AI That Looked at the Sun” by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (Short Story, 1/2020)
“The Last to Die” by Rita Chang-Eppig (Short Story, 1/2020)
“The Perfect Sail” by I-Hyeong Yun (Novelette, 1/2020)
“The Ancestral Temple in a Box” by Chen Qiufan (Short Story, 1/2020)
“Outer” by Hollis Joel Henry (Short Story, 2/2020)
“Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá (Short Story, 2/2020)
“Mandorla” by Cooper Shrivastava (Short Story, 2/2020)
“The Host” by Neal Asher (Novelette, 2/2020)
“Jigsaw Children” by Grace Chan (Novelette, 2/2020)
“Generation Gap” by Thoraiya Dyer (Novelette, 2/2020)
“Time Reveals the Heart” by Derek Künsken (Short Story, 3/2020)
“Coffee Boom: Decoctions, Micronized” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (Short Story, 3/2020)
“Leave-Taking” by M. L. Clark (Novelette, 3/2020)
“The Amusement Dark” by Mike Buckley (Novelette, 3/2020)
“Grayer Than Lead, Heavier Than Snow” by Yukimi Ogawa (Novelette, 3/2020)
“The Whale Fall at the End of the Universe” by Cameron Van Sant (Short Story, 3/2020)
“Distant Stars” by P H Lee (Short Story, 4/2020)
“AirBody” by Sameem Siddiqui (Short Story, 4/2020)
“A System for Investigating Recapitulation and Evolutionary Novelty” by Kyle E Miller (Short Story, 4/2020)
“The ThoughtBox” by Tlotlo Tsamaase (Short Story, 4/2020)
“Debtless” by Chen Qiufan (Novelette, 4/2020)
“Angel Pattern” by Henry Szabranski (Novelette, 4/2020)
“What Happens in Solarium Square 21” by Ashleigh Shears (Short Story, 5/2020)
“Albedo Season” by Ray Nayler (Short Story, 5/2020)
“A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential” by JY Neon Yang (Novelette, 5/2020)
“Quantum Fish” by Bo Balder (Novelette, 5/2020)
“The Language Sheath” by Regina Kanyu Wang (Novelette, 5/2020)
“The Translator, at Low Tide” by Vajra Chandrasekera (Short Story, 5/2020)
“The Iridescent Lake” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (Novelette, 6/2020)
“How Long the Shadows Cast” by Kenji Yanagawa (Novelette, 6/2020)
“Nine Words for Loneliness in the Language of the Uma’u” by M. L. Clark (Novella, 6/2020)
“Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment” by Priya Chand (Short Story, 6/2020)
“Own Goal” by Dennard Dayle (Short Story, 6/2020)
“Artificial People” by Michael Swanwick (Short Story, 7/2020)
“One Time, a Reluctant Traveler” by A. T. Greenblatt (Short Story, 7/2020)
“Three Stories Conjured from Nothing” by ShakeSpace (Short Story, 7/2020)
“Power to Yield” by Bogi Takács (Novella, 7/2020)
“Strange Comfort” by Tegan Moore (Novelette, 7/2020)
“The Oddish Gesture of Humans” by Gabriel Calácia (Short Story, 7/2020)
“The House That Leapt into Forever” by Beth Goder (Short Story, 7/2020)
“The Lori” by Fiona Moore (Short Story, 8/2020)
“Drawing Lines Between the Stars” by Frank Smith (Short Story, 8/2020)
“The Plague” by Yan Leisheng (Short Story, 8/2020)
“An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell (Novelette, 8/2020)
“The Immolation of Kev Magee” by L.X. Beckett (Novelette, 8/2020)
“Nameless He” by Robert Reed (Novelette, 8/2020)
“Blue And Blue And Blue And Pink” by Lavie Tidhar (Short Story, 9/2020)
“What Remains of Maya Sankovy” by G. D. Angier (Short Story, 9/2020)
“Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City” by Arula Ratnakar (Novelette, 9/2020)
“Certainty” by Isabel Lee (Novelette, 9/2020)
“Ask the Fireflies” by R. P. Sand (Novelette, 9/2020)
“Every Plumage, Every Beak” by Nin Harris (Short Story, 9/2020)
“The Book Reader” by Keishi Kajifune (Short Story, 9/2020)
“Callme and Mink” by Brenda Cooper (Short Story, 10/2020)
“To Set at Twilight In a Land of Reeds” by Natalia Theodoridou (Short Story, 10/2020)
“Wandering Rocks” by Gregory Feeley (Novelette, 10/2020)
“You and Whose Army?” by Greg Egan (Novelette, 10/2020)
“Last Wishes” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (Novelette, 10/2020)
“All Living Creation” by Xiu Xinyu (Short Story, 10/2020)
“Ashes Under Uricon” by Adrastos Omissi (Short Story, 10/2020)
“The Land of Eternal Jackfruits” by Rupsa Dey (Short Story, 11/2020)
“Death Is for Those Who Die” by Jana Bianchi (Short Story, 11/2020)
“To Sail the Black” by A.C. Wise (Novelette, 11/2020)
“Lost in Darkness and Distance” by Clara Madrigano (Novelette, 11/2020)
“Niuniu” by Baoshu (Novelette, 11/2020)
“The Murders of Jason Hartman” by Brady Nelson and Jamie Wahls (Short Story, 11/2020)
“The Love Life of John Doe” by K Raghasudhan (Short Story, 11/2020)
“The Island of Misfit Toys” by Fiona Moore (Short Story, 12/2020)
“Things That Happen When You Date Your Ex’s Accidentally Restored Backup From Before The Divorce” by Lisa Nohealani Morton (Short Story, 12/2020)
“The Last Days of Old Night” by Michael Swanwick (Short Story, 12/2020)
“Conversations in the Dark” by Robert Reed (Novelette, 12/2020)
“No Way Back” by Chi Hui (Short Story, 12/2020)
“Forward Momentum and a Parallel Toss” by AnaMaria Curtis (Short Story, 12/2020)
“Songs of Activation” by Andy Dudak (Short Story, 12/2020)

2020 Clarkesworld Cover Art

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“Zarrio” by Eduardo García

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“cattleDrive” by Colie Wertz

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“Pitstop” by Thomas Chamberlain-Keen

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“Home Planet” by Beeple

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“From the Moon to Mars” by Thomas Chamberlain-Keen

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“Plains of Forgotten Hopes” by Viko Menezes

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“Family Portrait” by Yigit Koroglu

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“Monk’s Mirror” by Joseph Diaz

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“51” by Rodion Shaldo

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“Ancient Stones” by Francesca Resta

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“Alien Scout” by Arjun Amky

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“I Hear Them” by Claudio Pilia