LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. Welcome to issue 161 of LIGHTSPEED! This month we're serializing A. L. Goldfuss's SF novelette "Where the God-Knives Tread." This two-parter is a delightful mix of mystery, space exploration, and archaeology. We also have two terrific flash pieces: "The Void Wyrm's Guide to Devouring Stars" from AJ Wentz and "Excerpts from a Scientist's Notebook: Ancestral Memory in Europan Pseudocephalopods" by David DeGraff. If you're looking for the recipe to a magical reading experience, don't miss "Immortality Soup, Or, An Excerpt From the Cookbook of the Gods, " our first fantasy short story of the month, which is written by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. Jae Steinbacher remixes Little Red Riding Hood in their new story "What You Are and the Wolf." Our flash includes "A Small God" by Jeff Reynolds and the very magical "Four Self-Care Secrets for a Long and Happy Life" by Tina S. Zhu. Our book reviewers have been devouring and evaluating new books so they can bring you their monthly array of recommendations. As always, spotlight interviewer Laurel Amberdine has sat down and interviewed our short fiction authors so you can get better insights into their work and their processes. And our ebook readers will also enjoy a book excerpt from Tlotlo Tsamaase's novel WOMB CITY.

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 161 (October 2023) - Lightspeed Magazine, #161

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. Welcome to issue 147 of LIGHTSPEED! Our first piece of science fiction, "My Future Self, Refused, " asks a classic question: If you met your future self, would you be able to trust your own advice? Don't miss this time-traveling tale from Adam-Troy Castro. New to our pages is writer Ruben Reyes, Jr, whose story "SyncALife" is about a service promising to ease the loss of a family member's death. It's a powerful mix of technology, familial trauma, and the poetry of war. Our flash SF piece is a tale of inadvertent teleportation: "The Disappearing Dream Engineer, " by Rati Mehrotra. Our SF reprint is from Mary Anne Mohanraj: "Among the Marithei." As for our fantasy offerings, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor returns to bring you a touching new short, "So, You Married Your Arch Nemesis .

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 147 (August 2022) - Lightspeed Magazine, #147

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. Welcome to issue 137 of LIGHTSPEED! We're starting off the month with a memo---a science fictional memo, and lucky for all of you, it's by the hilarious Gene Doucette. Not everyone can make an apocalypse funny, but we think "Memoranda from the End of the World" will have you chuckling to the bitter end. Our other original SF short comes from Yang-Yang Wang, whose story "Every Single Brian" digs into the painful and personal realm of human cloning. E. Catherine Tobler brings us a riveting SF flash piece in "Those Who Went." Our reprint is "Tidings" by Rich Larson, from Grist Magazine's recent Imagine 2200 climate fiction publication. On the fantasy side of the magazine, we're taking you all back to P H Lee's the Great Sweet Sea for their new novelette "The Ash-Girl and the Salmon Prince." This fairy tale of family, love, and loss is so much fun we're serializing it over the course of two weeks. Our fantasy flash piece is the tremendously affecting story "The Right Dragon, " from Coral Alejandra Moore. Our reprint is Endria Isa Richardson's "The Black Menagerie. Our nonfiction team has put together a great selection of author spotlights and book reviews. We also have an excerpt from Ryka Aoki's new novel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS. It's another terrific issue---thanks for reading!

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 137 (October 2021) - Lightspeed Magazine, #137

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. Welcome to LIGHTSPEED's 133rd issue, and welcome to our eleventh year of publishing great speculative fiction. We're kicking off the month with an original short fantasy story by Adam-Troy Castro with "A Tableau of Things That Are." It's a commentary on love and marriage and the prison system. Adam R. Shannon brings us a story about heroism in firefighting in his deeply affecting "When You Die on the Radio." We also have fantasy reprints from Sofia Samatar ("Wolf Tones") and Theodora Goss ("How to Become a Witch-Queen"). Our science fiction originals grapple with classic SFnal fare: alternate realities and aliens. Timothy Mudie brings us a love story complicated by reality hopping ("Different People") and in "Do Nothing, " a story set on Alcatraz Island, Endria Isa Richardson weaves an extraterrestrial invasion with a criticism of the penal system (it's a great match for Castro's fantasy story). Our SF reprints are from Sam J. Miller ("The Nation of the Sick") and Nalo Hopkinson ("Inselberg"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. Our ebook readers will also enjoy an excerpt from Katherine Addison's new novel, THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD.

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 133 (June 2021) - Lightspeed Magazine, #133

NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue 101 of NIGHTMARE-the first under the leadership of our new editor-in-chief Wendy N. Wagner! This month we have original short fiction from E. A. Petricone ("We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It") and Stephen Graham Jones ("Hairy Legs and All"). Our new "The Horror Lab" department features a poem from Anuel Rodriguez ("The Girl with the Voice Made of Stone") and a flash story from Erica Ruppert ("And Lucy Fell"). We also have Justin C. Key bringing us the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word, " author spotlights with our authors, and an interview with Hailey Piper.

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 101 (February 2021) - Nightmare Magazine, #101

FANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales_and anything and everything in between. FANTASY is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader-we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human. Welcome to issue sixty-four of FANTASY MAGAZINE! In this issue, we have original fiction by Innocent Chizaram Ilo ("Flight") and David James Brock ("Kisser"); flash fiction by Sharang Biswas ("Of Course You Screamed") and Shingai Njeri Kagunda ("Blackman's Flight in Four Parts"); poetry by Danielle Jean Atkinson ("Like a Box of Chocolates") and Lynette Mejia ("What My Mother Taught Me"); and a new essay, "The Validity of Escapism, " by Andrea Stewart. Thanks for reading!

Fantasy Magazine, Issue 64 (February 2021) - Fantasy Magazine, #64

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue ninety-six of NIGHTMARE! Our original fiction this month is deeply grounded in place. We're taking you on a witchy trip to the prairie in Ray Nayler's new story "Outside of Omaha, " and we let Sonya Taaffe immerse us in the canals of Boston in "Tea with the Earl of Twilight." Our reprints are from Kivel Carson ("The Night Has No Eyes") and Gary McMahon ("My Boy Builds Coffins"). On the nonfiction front, Suyi Davies Okungbowa talks about the differences between Nigerian and American horror in our "The H Word" column. Plus, Terence Taylor reviews some excellent new reads, and of course we have author spotlights with our authors. Our ebook readers will enjoy an excerpt from the reissue of Kathe Koja's classic novel, THE CIPHER.

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 96 (September 2020) - Nightmare Magazine, #96

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. Welcome to LIGHTSPEED's 122nd issue! Our cover art this month is from Galen Dara, illustrating our first original fantasy short of the month: "Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills, " by Kristina Ten. Is there a place for a centuries-old Russian witch in San Francisco? You'd be surprised! Mari Ness takes us to Neverland in her piratical tale of "Great Gerta and the Mermaid." Plus, we have fantasy reprints by Benjamin Rosenbaum ("A Siege of Cranes") and Kiini Ibura Salaam ("Rosamojo"). During lockdown, it was hard not to think in terms of apocalypses. Things were so strange, so upended and lonely, that it seemed like the end of, if not the world, normal life. Luckily for us, apocalypse is always on Adam-Troy Castro's mind. He's given us a new story about different kinds of apocalypses in "The End of The World Measured in Values of N." Ray Nayler returns with an SF original ("The Swallows of the Storm") about a scientist researching an inexplicable phenomenon. We also have reprints by Tochi Onyebuchi ("Zen and the Art of an Android Beatdown, or Cecile Meets a Boxer: A Love Story") and Annalee Newitz ("The Blue Fairy's Manifesto"). Our nonfiction team brings our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. Our feature interview is with Alaya Dawn Johnson. Our ebook readers will also enjoy an excerpt from Ryan Van Loan's debut novel, THE SIN IN THE STEEL.

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