197 - Lightspeed Magazine 197 - 2026.10

We have science fiction offerings by Adam-Troy Castro (“The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana”) and Rob Cameron (“Ice Like Honey”), the latter of which we’re publishing in partnership with Dartmouth University and MIT Press (see below). Our two science fiction flash pieces are: “Guidance” by Martin Cahill and “Master/Slave Couple Seeking Physicist to Feed to a Black Hole” by Arden Powell. Our original fantasy offerings are by Ben Peek (“Frankenstein, Again”) and Marissa Lingen (“Until the Cure”). Our two fantasy flash pieces are: “All the Shapes We Have Ever Been” by Kehkashan Khalid and “Congratulations on your Magic Sword"” by John Wiswell. We will also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our review team. 

196 - Lightspeed Magazine 196 - 2026.09

We have original science fiction by Alexander Weinstein (“Dreamweavers”) and Sanjana Raj (“Alterverse”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Chrysalis of Moth One” from V.M. Ayala and “Maskwork Saltman Giftbox” by Rich Larson. Plus, we have original fantasy by Anya Ow (“Long Goodbyes”) and Thomas Ha (“Jempo”). We also have a flash story (“A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces”) from Oyedotun Damilola Muees, and another (“The Dragon, the Scarab, the Wolf, the Dragon”) from Rhiannon Rasmussen. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews.

155 - Lightspeed Magazine 155 - 2023.04

AI has been on everyone's mind lately, so it seems fitting that we're starting the month with a story about artificial intelligence grounded in a very different worldview than today's tech brothers': "Virtually Cherokee" by Brian K. Hudson. Adam-Troy Castro's "Spaceman Jones" is a story about the dangers of interstellar addiction. We also have two terrific flash "Lament of a Specialist in Interspecies Relations" from Amy Johnson and "Every Bone a Bell" by Shaoni C. White. Bogi Takacs returns with eir fantasy story "Construction Sacrifice," an account of gender, identity, and all the complicated relationships that form within any city. Amanda Helms spins us a tale of trauma and magic in her story "The House, the Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks." In our flash offerings, Derrick Boden discusses inequality and, well, giants in his new story "When the Giants Came Through the Valley." We also have a new flash story from John Wiswell ("So You Want to Kiss Your Nemesis").
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 If you discovered a way to pull material from other versions of our world, what would you want to grab? Cash? Treasure? Board games? Well, we have an original science fiction story by Daniel H. Wilson-"Crystalline"-with just that situation. You'll have to read it to find out what the characters go looking for! We're happy to have Peter Watts return with a new short story called "Contracting Iris." If you like your SF with a side of unsettling epidemiology, this story will definitely tickle your fancy. We also have two terrific flash pieces: "One Pinch, Two Pinch" from Beth Goder and "Four Years Minus Twelve Days" by Samantha Murray. Oyedotun Damilola Muees brings us a climate fantasy story ("The Chosen Six") rich with original solutions for our planet's biggest troubles. We also have a new short story from Benjamin Peek ("The Ministry of Saturn"), which features an organization specializing in the strange and supernatural. We also have a flash story ("Every Little Change") from Aimee Ogden, and another ("Our Exquisite Delights") from Megan Chee. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.
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To my daughter, in the dark of the moon by P H Lee
One Day in the Afterlife of Detective Roshni Chaddha by Rati Mehrotra Author spotlight
The Metamorphosis of Marie Martin by Nadine Tomlinson
Mad Honeyby Aimee Ogden
NOVEL EXCERPT: White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
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197 - Lightspeed Magazine 197 - 2026.10

We have science fiction offerings by Adam-Troy Castro (“The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana”) and Rob Cameron (“Ice Like Honey”), the latter of which we’re publishing in partnership with Dartmouth University and MIT Press (see below). Our two science fiction flash pieces are: “Guidance” by Martin Cahill and “Master/Slave Couple Seeking Physicist to Feed to a Black Hole” by Arden Powell. Our original fantasy offerings are by Ben Peek (“Frankenstein, Again”) and Marissa Lingen (“Until the Cure”). Our two fantasy flash pieces are: “All the Shapes We Have Ever Been” by Kehkashan Khalid and “Congratulations on your Magic Sword"” by John Wiswell. We will also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our review team. 

196 - Lightspeed Magazine 196 - 2026.09

We have original science fiction by Alexander Weinstein (“Dreamweavers”) and Sanjana Raj (“Alterverse”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Chrysalis of Moth One” from V.M. Ayala and “Maskwork Saltman Giftbox” by Rich Larson. Plus, we have original fantasy by Anya Ow (“Long Goodbyes”) and Thomas Ha (“Jempo”). We also have a flash story (“A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces”) from Oyedotun Damilola Muees, and another (“The Dragon, the Scarab, the Wolf, the Dragon”) from Rhiannon Rasmussen. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews.

116 - Lightspeed Magazine 116 - 2020.01

"The Men Who Change the World" by Christopher East 
"All Together, Now" by Jason Hough and Ramez Naam 
"She’d Never Had a Name Before" by J.R. Dawson
"The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N.K. Jemisin
Fantasy Stories
"Story Kit" by Kij Johnson "Destinations of Joy" by Alexander Weinstein
"Holiday" by M. Rickert 
"Fortune’s Final Hand" by Adam-Troy Castro 
EXCERPTS A Queen in Hiding by Sarah Kozloff

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This month’s cover art is by Galen Dara, illustrated the original fantasy short “Godmeat,” by Martin Cahill. We also have an original fantasy short story from Kodiak Julian (“Our Side of the Door”), and fantasy reprints by Xia Jia (“Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse”) and John Grant (“His Artist Wife”). Our science fiction originals include work by Carolyn Ives Gilman (“We Will Be All Right”) and Jane Lindskold (“A Green Moon Problem”), plus we have SF reprints by Tobias S. Buckell (“Sunset”) and David Brin (“The Crystal Spheres”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint (“Great Work of Time,” by John Crowley) and a book excerpt.

094 - Lightspeed Magazine 94 - 2018.03

Our cover art this month comes from Reiko Murakami, illustrating an original science fiction short by Bryan Camp ("The Independence Patch"). We also have fresh new work from Ken Liu ("Cosmic Spring"), along with SF reprints by A. Merc Rustad ("Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn") and N.K. Jemisin ("The Effluent Engine"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Beesan Odeh ("Al-Kahf") and Cassandra Khaw and A. Maus ("You Do Nothing But Freefall"), and fantasy reprints by Jeremiah Tolbert ("The Dreamers of Alamoi") and Seanan McGuire ("And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We'll also be interviewing Na'amen Golbert Tilahun. For our ebook readers, we also have our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint ("The Proving Ground," by Alec Nevala-Lee) and an excerpt from Tessa Gratton's debut fantasy novel, The queens of Innis lear.

088 - Lightspeed Magazine 88 - 2017.09

This month, we have original science fiction by Timothy Mudie ("An Ever-Expanding Flash of Light") and Giovanni De Feo ("Ugo"), along with SF reprints by Marissa Lingen ("Blue Ribbon") and Genevieve Valentine ("Carthago Delenda Est"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Jaymee Goh ("The Last Cheng Beng Gift") and Tony Ballantyne ("A Pound of Darkness, a Quarter of Dreams"), and fantasy reprints by Tamsyn Muir ("The Magician's Apprentice") and Tobias Buckell ("Shoggoths in Traffic"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns, and an interview with Theodora Goss. For our ebook readers, we have a reprint of the novella "Near Zennor," by Elizabeth Hand, and an excerpt from the novel Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz. And our cover this month is by Alan Bao, illustrating "The Last Cheng Beng Gift."

087 - Lightspeed Magazine 87 - 2017.08

Our cover this month is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating a new original science fiction short from Ashok K. Banker ("Tongue"). Our other original SF this month is from Christopher East ("An Inflexible Truth"). We also have SF reprints by Andrea Kail ("The Sun God At Dawn, Rising From A Lotus Blossom") and Carrie Vaughn ("Swing Time"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Susan Palwick ("The Shining Hills") and Bruce McAllister ("Ink"), and fantasy reprints by Ken Scholes ("East of Eden and Just a Bit South") and Seanan McGuire ("A Citizen in Childhood's Country"). All that, and of course we also have our book and media review columns, spotlights on our fantastic writers, and an interview with Annalee Newitz. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella "Steppin' Razor," by Maurice Broaddus. Our excerpt this month is from Daniel H. Wilson's new novel, The clockwork dynasty.

085 - Lightspeed Magazine 85 - 2017.06

This month, we have original science fiction by Scott Dalrymple ("Marcel Proust, Incorporated") and Matthew Kressel ("Love Engine Optimization"), along with SF reprints by Vandana Singh ("Yakshantariksh") and Elizabeth Bear ("The Heart's Filthy Lesson"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Shweta Narayan ("World of the Three") and Pat Murphy ("Crossing the Threshold"), and fantasy reprints by Carlos Hernandez ("The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory") and Ben Hoffman ("Substitutes"). All that, and we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. Our cover art is by Randy Gallegos, illustrating Shweta Narayan's "World of the Three." For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of Yoon Ha Lee's "Iseul's Lexicon" and an excerpt from the latest novel by Seanan McGuire, DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES, as well as a bonus excerpt from NEVER NOW ALWAYS by Desirina Boskovich.

082 - Lightspeed Magazine 82 - 2017.03

"The Worldless" by Indrapramit Das
"The Debt of the Innocent" by Rachel Swirsky
"Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes" by Adam-Troy Castro
"Come-from-Aways" by Julian Mortimer Smith
"Phantom Pain" by Eileen Gunn
"The Stone Lover" by Marta Randall
"La Peau Verte" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
"Soccer Fields and Frozen Lakes" by Greg Kurzawa
"Proving the Rule" by Holly Phillips
Novel Excerpts : "Orbital Cloud" by Taiyo Fujii

081 - Lightspeed Magazine 81 - 2017.02

This month, we have original science fiction by A. Merc Rustad ("Later, Let's Tear Up the Inner Sanctum") and Jack Skillingstead ("The Last Garden"), along with SF reprints by Ian R. MacLeod ("Starship Day") and Seanan McGuire ("Lady Antheia's Guide To Horticultural Warfare"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Kelly Barnhill ("Probably Still the Chosen One") and Ashok Banker ("Six-Gun Vixen and the Dead Coon Trashgang"), and fantasy reprints by K.J. Bishop ("The Memorial Page") and Brian Stableford ("The Elixir of Youth"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of the novella "Taklamakan," by Bruce Sterling.

073 - Lightspeed Magazine 73 - 2016.06

The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! special issue exists to relieve a brokenness in the genre that’s been enabled time and time again by favoring certain voices and portrayals of particular characters. Here we bring together a team of POC writers and editors from around the globe to present science fiction that explores the nuances of culture, race, and history. This is science fiction for our present time, but also—most of all—for our future.
People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! is 100% written and edited by people of color, and is lead by guest editors Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim, with editorial contributions from Nisi Shawl, Grace L. Dillon, Berit Ellingsen, Arley Sorg, and Sunil Patel. It features ten original, never-before-published short stories, plus ten original flash fiction stories, by writers such as Steven Barnes, Karin Lowachee, Sofia Samatar, Terence Taylor, Caroline M. Yoachim, and more. All that, plus five classic reprints, by the likes of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler; an array of nonfiction articles, interviews, and book reviews; and more than two dozen personal essays from people of colo(u)r discussing their experiences as readers and writers of science fiction.

069 - Lightspeed Magazine 69  - 2016.02

"Charlotte Incorporated" by Rachael K. Jones
"Hereafter" by Samuel Peralta (reprint)
"Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" by Sarah Pinsker
"Transitional Forms" by Paul McAuley (reprint)
"Monstrous Embrace" by Rachel Swirsky (reprint)
"Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass" by Jeremiah Tolbert
"Map of Seventeen" by Christopher Barzak (reprint)
"Starfish" by Karin Tidbeck
"May Be Some time" by Brenda W. Clough
Novel Excerpts : "A Gathering of Shadows" by V.E. Schwab

067 - Lightspeed Magazine 67 - 2015.12

"Tomorrow When We See the Sun" by A. Merc Rustad
"Beacon 23: Little Noises" by Hugh Howey (reprint)
"Beneath the Silent Stars" by Aidan Doyle
"The Time Travel Club" by Charlie Jane Anders (reprint)
"The Queen’s Reason" by Richard Parks (reprint)
"Tea Time" by Rachel Swirsky
"Portfolio" by Mark Rigney (reprint)
"Ex Libris Noctis" by Jay Lake
Novella : "The Surfer" by Kelly Link

061 - Lightspeed Magazine 61 - 2015.06 

Even in science fiction, supposedly the genre of limitless possibility, where everyone is invited to the adventure, heterosexual, heteroromantic, and cisgendered are considered the default, to the extent that everything else is "deviation," and must be eyed with suspicion. LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify [Gay, lesbian, bisexual, demisexual, asexual, pansexual, intersex, transgender, genderfluid, genderqueer--anyone who fits within the QUILTBAG], are a big part of that. They always have been. 
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Original science fiction by Seanan McGuire, N.K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, Kris Millering, Heather Clitheroe, Rhonda Eikamp, Gabriella Stalker, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, and K.C. Norton.
Original flash fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Denham, Samantha Murray, Holly Schofield, Cathy Humble, Emily Fox, Tina Connolly, Effie Seiberg, Marina J. Lostetter, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Sarah Pinsker, Kim Winternheimer, Anaid Perez, Katherine Crighton, and Vanessa Torline.
Reprints by Alice Sheldon (a/k/a James Tiptree, Jr.), Eleanor Arnason, Maria Romasco Moore, Tananarive Due, and a novella reprint by Maureen F. McHugh.

046 - Lightspeed Magazine 46 - 2014.03

"Break! Break! Break!" by Charlie Jane Anders (reprint)
"How to Get Back to the Forest" by Sofia Samatar
"The Mao Ghost" by Chen Qiufan (translation by Ken Liu)
"Turnover" by Jo Walton (reprint)
"A Different Fate" by Kat Howard
"A Drink for Teddy Ford" by Robert Jackson Bennett (reprint)
"Phalloon the Illimitable by Matthew Hughes
"The Armies of Elfland" by Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick
Novel Excerpts :
"Sand" by Hugh Howey
"The Milkman: A Free World Novel" by Michael J. Martineck

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We have original fantasy by L.B. Gale (“Spindles”) and Megan Arkenberg (“The Suicide's Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition”), and fantasy reprints by David Barr Kirtley (“The Black Bird”) and Brian Ruckley (“Beyond the Reach of His Gods”).
Plus, we have original science fiction by Robert Reed (“Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment”) and Benjamin Parzybok (“Bear and Shifty”), along with SF reprints by Pat Cadigan (“Nearly Departed”) and Nancy Kress (“Art of War”).
For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “Dragonfly” by Ursula K. Le Guin, and of course we have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin and David Brin.

027 - Lightspeed Magazine 27 - 2012.08

Novella: Joe Haldeman (“A Separate War”)
Novel Excerpts: Carrie Vaughn (Kitty Steals the Show)
Nonfiction: Artist Showcase: Hrvoje Bešlić, Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Interview: Seanan McGuire (a/k/a Mira Grant)
Fantasy: Kat Howard (“Breaking the Frame”), Linda Nagata (“A Moment Before It Struck”), Wil McCarthy (“The Necromancer in Love”), Delia Sherman (“Cotillion”)
Science Fiction: Ken Liu (“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”), Caroline M. Yoachim & Tina Connolly (“Flash Bang Remember”), Charlie Jane Anders (“Love Might Be Too Strong a Word”), Michael Swanwick (“Slow Life”)

026 - Lightspeed Magazine 26 - 2012.07

Novella: “Lune and the Red Empress” by Liz Williams and Alastair Reynolds
Novel Excerpts: Spin the Sky by Katy Stauber and vN by Madeline Ashby
Nonfiction: Artist Showcase: Chris Cold and Tobias Roetsch, Interview: Brian Greene, Interview: Garth Nix
Science Fiction: A. M. Dellamonica (“The Sweet Spot”), Jake Kerr (“Requiem in the Key of Prose”), Joe Haldeman (“Four Short Novels”), David Brin (“The Giving Plague”)
Fantasy: Maria Dahvana Headley (“Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream”), Aidan Doyle (“Ghost River Red”), Theodora Goss (“Singing of Mount Abora”), Peter S. Beagle (“Gordon, the Self-Made Cat”)

025 - Lightspeed Magazine 25 - 2012.06

This month, we have original fantasy by debut writer Kelsey Ann Barrett (“My Teacher, My Enemy”) and award-winning author John Langan (“Renfrew’s Course”), with fantasy reprints by bestselling author Seanan McGuire (“Lost”) and Hugo-winner Tim Pratt (“Cup and Table”). We also have original science fiction by Maggie Clark (“A Plague of Zhe”) and Simon McCaffery (“The Cristóbal Effect”), along with SF reprints by Eileen Gunn (“Contact”) and bestselling author George R. R. Martin (“The Way of Cross and Dragon”). For our ebook readers: Our ebook-exclusive is again not a novella, but the second and final part of the two-part serial novel: The Cosmology of the Wider World, by Jeffrey Ford. We also have excerpts from two new novels: David Brin’s Existence and N. K. Jemisin’s The Killing Moon. All that plus our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling author Anne Rice and documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (director of Comic-Con, Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope).

024 - Lightspeed Magazine 24 - 2012.05

This month, we have original science fiction by Linda Nagata (“Nightside on Callisto”) and C. C. Finlay (“The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist”) and SF reprints by Nicola Griffith (“Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese”) and David Langford (“Different Kinds of Darkness”). We also have original fantasy by Dale Bailey (“The Children of Hamelin”) and Melanie Rawn (“Mother of All Russiya”), along with fantasy reprints by Catherynne M. Valente (“A Hole to China”) and the late Kage Baker (“The Ruby Incomparable”). And, in our ebook edition, we have the first part of a two-part serial: The Cosmology of the Wider World by Jeffrey Ford. We also have excerpts of Paolo Bacigalupi’s new young adult novel, The Drowned Cities, and 2312, the new novel by visionary SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson.

023 - Lightspeed Magazine 23 - 2012.04

This month, we have original fantasy by Half-Life creator Marc Laidlaw (“Forget You”) and Eric Gregory (“The Sympathy”), along with fantasy reprints by Caitlín R. Kiernan (“The Steam Dancer (1896)”) and M. K. Hobson (“Domovoi”). For our original science fiction offerings, we’ll have Vandana Singh’s “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” and Caroline M. Yoachim’s “Mother Ship,” and our SF reprints will include “Our Town” by bestselling, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson and, from my new anthology Armored, “Nomad” by Karin Lowachee. All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors William Gibson and Robin Hobb. And for our ebook exclusives this month, we’re pleased to present the award-nominated novella “The Political Officer” by C. C. Finlay, along with excerpts from Nancy Kress’s, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, her new novel coming out this month from Tachyon, and from Holly Black’s Black Heart, the new novel forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

022 - Lightspeed Magazine 22 - 2022.03

This month, our ebook-exclusive novella is “Cleopatra Brimstone” by Elizabeth Hand. Then we have original science fiction by new writer Kali Wallace (“The Day They Came”) and Steven Utley (“Test”), and SF reprints by award-winning authors Mary Rosenblum (“My She”) and Kathleen Ann Goonan (“Electric Rains”). We also have original fantasy by S. L. Gilbow (“Alarms”) and David Barr Kirtley (“Beauty”), and fantasy reprints by bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler (“Halfway People”) and the legendary Gene Wolfe (“The Legend of XI Cygnus”). All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with R. A. Salvatore and Ian McDonald.

021 - Lightspeed Magazine 21 - 2012.02

In this issue, we have original fantasy by new writer Brooke Bolander (“Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring”) and Fantasy-favorite Genevieve Valentine (“The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring”), and fantasy reprints by Chris Willrich (“The Mermaid and the Mortal Thing”) and the legendary Robert Silverberg (“Not Our Brother”). Plus, we have original science fiction by Keith Brooke (“War 3.01”) and bestselling author Carrie Vaughn (“Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil”), plus SF reprints by award-winning authors Gregory Benford (“Dark Sanctuary”) and Kristine Kathryn Rusch (“Craters”). All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors Chuck Palahniuk and Daniel H. Wilson. And, for our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella this month is the dark, brutal tour de force “Hands Up! Who Wants to Die?” by Lucius Shepard.

020 - Lightspeed Magazine 20 - 2012.01

This month, we have original science fiction by Megan Arkenberg (“How Many Miles to Babylon?”) and Ken Liu (“The Five Elements of the Heart Mind”), plus SF reprints by Paul McAuley (“Gene Wars”) and Nancy Kress (“Always True to Thee, in My Fashion”). Plus, original fantasy stories by Marissa Lingen (“On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)”) and Sarah Monette (“Blue Lace Agate”), and fantasy reprints by M. Rickert (“You Have Never Been Here”) and Aimee Bender (“A State of Variance”). All that plus feature interviews with bestselling author Neal Stephenson and award-winning author R. A. MacAvoy, and our usual assortment of author spotlights.
And, for our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella this month is a tribute to a science fiction legend who recently passed away: We’ll be reprinting the Hugo Award-winning novella "Weyr Search" by Anne McCaffrey, the first in her iconic Dragonriders of Pern series, plus we’ll have a memorial by her son (and collaborator) Todd McCaffrey.

019 - Lightspeed Magazine 19 - 2011.12

Fiction: “The Sighted Watchmaker” by Vylar Kaftan, “After the Days of Dead-eye ‘Dee” by Pat Cadigan, “The Parting Glass” by Andrew Penn Romine,”The Hammer of God” by Arthur C. Clarke.
Nonfiction: “Feature Interview: Richard Dawkins,” “Science (and Swindlers) Can Read Your Mind” by Jeff Lester, “Cyborg vs. Cyborg” by Nigel Wilson, “Armageddon Rock” by Alan Smale.

018 - Lightspeed Magazine 18 - 2011.11

Fiction: “How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars (Marsmen Trad.)” by Lisa Nohealani Morton, “The Kingdom of the Blind” by Maureen McHugh, “Houses” by Mark Pantoja, “Snow,” by John Crowley.
Nonfiction: “Planetary Alchemy” by Alan Smale, “Feature Interview: China Miéville” by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley, “Back to the Future” by Carol Ann Moletti, “Keeping the Dead Among the Living” by Graeme McMillan.

017 - Lightspeed Magazine 17 - 2011.10

Fiction: “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro, “The Little Bear” by Justina Robson, “Against Eternity” by David Farland, “Some Fortunate Future Day” by Cassandra Clare.
Nonfiction: “The Care and Feeding of Your Disembodied Lungs” by Lauren Davis, “The Physics of a Populated Universe” by Dr. Pamela Gay, “Saving Your Brain to a Disk” by Jeff Hecht, “Feature Interview: Beth Revis” by Gwenda Bond.

016 - Lightspeed Magazine 16 - 2011.09

Fiction: “Join” by Liz Coleman, “Bubbles” by David Brin, “Thief of Futures” by D. Thomas Minton, “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nonfiction: “Vulcanize, Wookify, and Alienate Yourself” by Esther Inglis-Arkell, “The Lonely Universe” by Dr. Pamela Gay, “Feature Interview: Lois McMaster Bujold” by Jeff Lester, “Immortals That Show Us That Death Is The Best Option” by Shaenon Garrity.

015 - Lightspeed Magazine 15 - 2011.08

Fiction: “Defenders” by Will McIntosh, “Just Another Perfect Day” by John Varley, “The Nearest Thing” by Genevieve Valentine, “Non-Stop to Portales” by Connie Willis.
Nonfiction: “Five Ways to End an Alien Invasion” by Jeremiah Tolbert, “Forget Everything You Already Know About Amnesia” by The Evil Monkey, “Four Milestones in the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence” by Graeme McMillan, “Feature Interview: Simon Pegg” by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley.

014 - Lightspeed Magazine 14 - 2011.07

Fiction: “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin, “The Old Equations” by Jake Kerr, “Sweet Sixteen” by Kat Howard, “Face Value” by Karen Joy Fowler.
Nonfiction: “The Cold Legacies” by Mike Brotherton, “The First Step to Enlightenment is Abject Failure” by Jeff Hecht, “The Superpowered Potential of Epigenetics” by Ekaterina Sedia, “Feature Interview: Mary Doria Russell” by Kat Howard.

013 - Lightspeed Magazine 13 - 2011.06

Fiction: “Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole” by K.C. Ball, “Frost Painting” by Carolyn Ives Gilman, “Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor” by Grady Hendrix, “Recording Angel” by Ian McDonald.
Nonfiction: “Dividing By Zero” by Mike Brotherton, “Dissolving the Wall Between Art and Science” by Graeme McMillian, “Six A.I. Types Who Annoy Us to Death” by Genevieve Valentine, “Feature Interview: Mary Roach” by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley.

012 - Lightspeed Magazine 12 - 2011.05

Fiction: “The Harrowers” by Eric Gregory, “Bibi From Jupiter” by Tessa Mellas, “Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress, “Scales” by Alastair Reynolds.
Nonfiction: “Feature Interview: Jill Tarter” by Genevieve Valentine, “The Icy Ecosystem of Europa” by Dr. Pamela Gay, “When the Brain Sees God on a Toaster Pastry” by The Evil Monkey, “Whose Thoughts Are You Thinking?” by Laura Waterstripe.

011 - Lightspeed Magazine 11 - 2011.04

Fiction: “All That Touches the Air” by An Owomoyela, “Maneki Neko” by Bruce Sterling,”Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son” by Tom Crosshill, “Velvet Fields” by Anne McCaffrey.
Nonfiction: “Parasitic Puppetmasters” by Wendy Wagner, “TANSTAAFL: There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” by Jeff Lester, “The Many Worlds Interpretation Theory: Having Your Cake and Eating it Two, and Three, and Four…” by Brad Deutsch, “Feature Interview: Elizabeth Bear” by Erin Stocks.

010 - Lightspeed Magazine 10 - 2011.03

In Saying the Names, debut author Maggie Clark gives us the story of a woman hired to navigate the sticky legal system of a complicated alien race, and her own equally sticky relationship with the defendant.
Gossamer by Stephen Baxter takes us to Pluto and Charon, tidally-locked in their mutual orbit. A team briefly stranded there discovers that timing is everything, and that the relationship between the two worlds is more complicated than anyone had guessed.
In Spider the Artist, Nnedi Okorafor takes us to Nigeria of the future, where Big Oil protects the pipelines with spider-like AIs known as zombies, and tells the tale of a woman who faces down one of the murderous machines armed only with a guitar.
Woman Leaves Room by Robert Reed gives us a view of immortality, forgotten files, and perhaps a reminder to be awake for the parts of life that matter.

09 - Lightspeed Magazine 9 - 2011.02

Fiction: “Long Enough and Just So Long” by Cat Rambo, “The Passenger” by Julie E. Czerneda, “Simulacrum” by Ken Liu, “Breakaway, Backdown” by James Patrick Kelly.
Nonfiction: “When the Chatbots Come to Greet Us” by Genevieve Valentine, “Feature Interview: “Digital Lifeforms” by Andrew Penn Romine, “Where’s My Holovision” by Jeff Hecht, and “Colonizing the Solar System in Four Easy Steps” by Nicholos Wethington.

08 - Lightspeed Magazine 8 - 2011.01

Fiction: “Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow,” by Corey Mariani, “Cucumber Gravy” by Susan Palwick, “Black Fire” by Tanith Lee, “The Elephants of Poznan” by Orson Scott Card.
Nonfiction: “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades,” by Genevieve Valentine, “Neurotransmitters: God’s Way of Getting You High” by Christopher Sedia, “Feature Interview: The Redemption of Paolo Bacigalupi” by Christie Yant, and “Five Animals That Will Take Over the World After We Eradicate Ourselves” by Jeremiah Tolbert.

07 - Lightspeed Magazine 7 - 2010.12

Fiction: “In-fall,” by Ted Kosmatka, “The Observer,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Jenny’s Sick” by David Tallerman, “The Silence of the Asonu” by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nonfiction: “Black Holes: Starving and Misunderstood,” by Dr. Pamela Gay, “Feature Interview: Greg Bear” by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, “Five Upcoming Plagues (We’re Doomed),” by Genevieve Valentine, “Linguistic Expectations,” by Lawrence M. Schoen.

06 - Lightspeed Magazine 6 - 2010.11

Fiction: “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu, “Faces in Revolving Souls” by Caitlin R. Kiernan, “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” by Alice Sola Kim, “Ej-Es” by Nancy Kress.
Nonfiction: “Feature Interview: Chris Avellone” by Matt London, “The Art and History of Body Modification” by Lori St. Leone, “Five Freaky Futures Your Kids Might Face” by Genevieve Valentine, “God Spots” by The Evil Monkey.

05 - Lightspeed Magazine 5 - 2010.10

Fiction: “Hindsight” by Sarah Langan, “Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man’s Back” by Joe R. Lansdale, “The Taste of Starlight” by John R. Fultz, “Beachworld” by Stephen King.
Nonfiction: “When Universes Collide” by Dr. Pamela Gay, “Feature Interview: Marc Laidlaw” by Matt London, “Considering Cryonics” by Gregory Benford, “Five Planets that Will Kill You Dead” by Genevieve Valentine.

04 - Lightspeed Magazine 4 - 2010.09

Fiction: “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee, “The Long Chase” by Geoffrey A. Landis, “Amid the Words of War” by Cat Rambo, and “Travelers” by Robert Silverberg.
Nonfiction: “Future Weapons” by Jeff Hecht, “Engines for the High Frontier” by G. David Nordley, “Five Reasons Why Aliens Make Better Lovers” by Carol Pinchefsky, and “Interview with John Scalzi” by Erin Stocks

03 - Lightspeed Magazine 3 - 2010.08

Fiction: “How to Become a Mars Overlord” by Catherynne M. Valente, “Patient Zero” by Tananarive Due, “Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro, “More Than the Sum of His Parts” by Joe Haldeman.
Nonfiction: “Dear Mars” by Pamela Gay, “Bangs & Whimpers: A Look at the Top Five Doomsday Scenarios” by Carol Pinchefsky, “Interview: Robert J. Sawyer” by Andrea Kail, “Cyborg-netics” by Matt London.

02 - Lightspeed Magazine 2 - 2010.07

Fiction: “No Time Like the Present” by Carol Emshwiller, “Manumission” by Tobias S. Buckell, “The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball” by Genevieve Valentine, “…and for a single yesterday” by George R. R. Martin.
Nonfiction: “Top Five Time Travel Nightmares” by Carol Pinchefsky, “You Are the Person You Are Now” by Evil Monkey, “A Very Brief History of Airships” by Gregory K. H. Bryant, “Music is Science Fiction: An Interview with The Lisps” by Desirina Boskovich.

01 - Lightspeed Magazine 1 - 2010.06

Fiction: “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan, “The Cassandra Project” by Jack McDevitt, “Cats in Victory” by David Barr Kirtley, “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn.
Nonfiction: “Is There Anyone Out There Who Wants To Go Fast?” by Mike Brotherton, “The High Untresspassed Sanctity of Space: Seven True Stories about Eugene Cernan” by Genevieve Valentine, “Top Ten Reasons Why Uplifted Animals Don’t Make Good Pets” by Carol Pinchefsky, “Every Step We Take” by Amanda Rose Levy.