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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 160, January 2020

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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 160, January 2020

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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 January 2020 issue (#160) contains:* Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Monster"), Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko ("The AI That Looked at the Sun"), Rita Chang-Eppig ("The Last to Die"), I-Hyeong Yun ("The Perfect Sail"), and Chen Qiufan ("The Ancestral Temple in a Box").* Non-fiction by Douglas F. Dluzen, interviews with Walter Jon Williams and Victo Ngai, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

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