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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 205, October 2023

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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 205, October 2023

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Editor's Note:
October 2023 issue (#205) contains:Original fiction by Suzanne Palmer ("Possibly Just About A Couch"), Lavie Tidhar ("The Blaumilch"), Lisa Papademetriou ("Down To The Root"), David Goodman ("Such Is My Idea Of Happiness"), Bella Han ("De Profundis, a Space Love Letter"), Grace Chan ("Post Hacking for the Uninitiated"), Amal Singh ("Rafi"), and Michael Swanwick ("Timothy: An Oral History").Non-fiction includes an article by Carrie Sessarego, interviews with Kij Johnson and Margret Helgadottir, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

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