Yes, it is April Fool’s Day. It is also the first day of the month, which means a new Clarkesworld goes online, fearless of the possibility of being considered untrue. This is issue #55. Here’s what you can find in it.

The lead story is by E. Lily Yu. It has the wonderful title of “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”. If that doesn’t pique your curiosity I’ll be very surprised. As usual, our lead story is also available in audio, read by the wonderful Kate Baker.

The second story is “Matchmaker” by Erin M. Hartshorn. That one will be available in audio in a couple of weeks time.

Jeremy’s interview subject for April is a fellow called John Scalzi, of whom you may have heard. He’s apparently trying to break into the fantasy market, but the interview is all about his new SF novel, Fuzzy Nation, which is a reboot of H. Beam Piper’s Hugo-nominated novel, Little Fuzzy. If you are curious as to why Scalzi should be doing such a thing, go read.

The article I bought for this month is “Linguistics for the World Builder” by Brit Mandelo. This one gets somewhat deeper into linguistic theory, and hopefully provides useful food for thought for authors.

Finally we have this month’s cover, “Post-apolacalyptic Fisherman” by Georgi Markov, which is seriously creepy. Georgi is a Bulgarian artist who also provided the cover for issue #42.

The ebook editions are going to be a little late this month as Neil has the matter of a wedding anniversary to attend to. I’ll post as soon as we have them in store.