Renan Bernardo

Sep 30, 2024 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Renan Bernardo |Kate Baker

Our seventh podcast for September is “A Theory of Missing Affections” written by Renan Bernardo and read by Kate Baker. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:38 — 51.7MB)Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS | MoreRenan Bernardo is a Nebula and Ignyte finalist author of science fiction and fantasy from Brazil. His fiction appeared in Reactor/Tor.com, Apex Magazine, Podcastle, Escape Pod, and others.

Sep 1, 2024 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Renan Bernardo

5980 words, short story The Injector of Lasting Vasoconstrictor Fluid for Eternal Wakefulness and Apprehension, or the Device of Ceaseless Panic. A syringe with a magnetite needle that would frighten even the boldest of souls. A torture device. But for my sister Kata, it would be a piece of the divine that shouldn’t be on the Aldarish Society Museum for Byrnyan Culture. That pretty much sums up how we stand to each other.

Feb 27, 2023 | samovar.strangehorizons.com | Renan Bernardo |Gábor Képes |Nicola Lombardi |Guy Goffette

- 1 -I was conceived by a carpenter with quivering hands in the back of a lumberyard. She was called Anatólia. Some days she had to fix flaws, sawing one or two parts of me again. On other days she hurled chunks of me against the wall, screaming at the bashful furniture she’d built, lined against the far wall. If she knew she’d bestowed consciousness on me with her art, perhaps she’d have other thoughts. I didn’t care.