Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our August 2021 issue (#179) contains: Original fiction by Beth Goder ("Candide; Life-"), Nadia Afifi ("A Thousand Tiny Gods"), Adam Stemple ("The Clock, Having Seen Its Face in the Mirror, Still Knows Not the Hour"), Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu ("The Serpentine Band"), Andrea M. Pawley ("A Heist in Fifteen Products from the Orion Spur's Longest-Running Catalog"), Mlok 5 ("An Instance"), and Andrea Kriz ("Resistance in a Drop of DNA"). Non-fiction includes an article by Carrie Sessarego and interviews with Adrian Tchaikovsky and S. Qiouyi Lu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.