The December 2012 issue of the Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award-nominated magazine, Clarkesworld.

This issue features the following stories: "Your Final Apocalypse" by Sandra McDonald, "The Wisdom of Ants" by Thoraiya Dyer and "Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett. Non-fiction includes an interview with Todd Lockwood, an article on Jane C. Loudon’s The Mummy! and Victorian Science Fiction by S. J. Chambers, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham and an editorial by Neil Clarke.