Clarkesworld is a Hugo 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 December 2014 issue contains: * Original Fiction by Kali Wallace ("Fatima's Wound"), Tom Crosshill ("The Magician and Laplace's Demon"), M. Bennardo ("Now Dress Me in My Finest Suit and Lay Me in My Casket"), and Dominica Phetteplace ("No Vera There"). * Classic stories by Allen M. Steele ("The Emperor of Mars"), Alastair Reynolds ("The Sledge-Maker's Daughter"), and Xia Jia ("Tongtong's Summer"). * Non-fiction by Ken Liu (Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction), an interview with Kameron Hurley, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.