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 October 2016 issue (#121) contains:* Original stories by Robert Reed ("The Next Scene"), James Patrick Kelly ("One Sister, Two Sisters, Three"), Chi Hui ("The Calculations of Artificials"), Genevieve Valentine ("Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home"), and Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu ("Rusties").* Reprints by JY Yang ("Old Domes"), Michael Swanwick ("The Very Pulse of the Machine").* Non-fiction by Mark Cole (Méliès to Bonestell: Relevancy and Realism in Cinematic Science Fiction), an interview with Peter S. Beagle, an Another Word column by Fran Wilde, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.