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Lightspeed Presents . . . “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species,” by Ken Liu

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu. Enjoy! Photo by Chris Donia, of one of the mysterious book sculptures of Edinburgh. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-beautiful-literary-mystery-in-edinburgh-5865968 The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species…

Books & Comics Lightspeed Magazine Aug 7

Lightspeed Presents… “Requiem in the Key of Prose” by Jake Kerr

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Requiem in the Key of Prose” by Jake Kerr. Enjoy! Top image: “City of Sad Shadows” by Chris Cold. Requiem in the Key of Prose Jake Kerr Metaphor There is…

io9 Johnjosephadams Jul 3

Lightspeed Presents… “The Cristóbal Effect” by Simon McCaffery

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Cristóbal Effect” by Simon McCaffery. Enjoy! Top image: Detail of Lightspeed #25 Cover. The Cristóbal Effect by Simon McCaffery All existence is a theft paid for by other existences;…

io9 Johnjosephadams Jun 5

Lightspeed Presents… “Nightside on Callisto” by Linda Nagata

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Nightside on Callisto” by Linda Nagata. Enjoy! Top image via NASA. Nightside on Callisto by Linda Nagata A faint, steady vibration carried through the igloo’s massive ice walls-a vibration that…

io9 Lightspeed Magazine May 3

Lightspeed Presents… “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” by Vandana Singh

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” by Vandana Singh. Enjoy! Image by Matt Tkocz Ruminations in an Alien Tongue by Vandana Singh Sitting on the sun-warmed step at the end of…

io9 Johnjosephadams Apr 3

Lightspeed Presents… “The Day They Came” by Kali Wallace

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Day They Came” by Kali Wallace. Enjoy! Photo by Refat via Shutterstock The Day They Came by Kali Wallace You remember the day they came. The shady corner behind…

io9 Johnjosephadams Mar 9

Lightspeed Presents… “Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring” by Brooke Bolander

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring ” by Brooke Bolander. Enjoy! Art by Khitrets. Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring by Brooke Bolander The first fox to come clawing up…

io9 Johnjosephadams Feb 7

Lightspeed Presents… “How Many Miles to Babylon?” by Megan Arkenberg

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. Here’s our first selection, “How Many Miles to Babylon?” by Megan Arkenberg. Enjoy! Art by Khitrets. How Many Miles to Babylon? By Megan Arkenberg And he cried out in a mighty voice: Fallen, fallen…

io9 Johnjosephadams Jan 3

Lightspeed Magazine’s captain is now also its engineer

John Joseph Adams launched Lightspeed Magazine just a couple years ago, and so far it’s gotten some great buzz as well as plenty of award nominations. https://gizmodo.com/john-joseph-adams-sees-your-dystopian-future-starts-a-5385210 Top image: Elena Bespalova, via Lightspeed Magazine Now the magazine’s owner, Prime Books, is spinning it off, and Adams is taking over ownership. He’s also going to be…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 8

Ursula K. Le Guin has a brand new reason to be scared of immortality

You probably already think you know why immortality is a bad idea — after all, Torchwood just got done showing us, and there’s a whole complicated computer model of why immortality would suck. But trust Ursula K. Le Guin to make immortality seem terrifying all over again. https://gizmodo.com/computer-model-reveals-what-would-happen-if-humans-beca-5844172 Top image: The Day We Left Earth…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 27

An art colony in Montana that’s haunted by aliens

Lightspeed recently republished a classic story by Carolyn Ives Gilman, “Frost Painting,” about a mysterious art colony in Montana that the locals say is inhabited by aliens — or maybe humans who have become alien. It’s also the tragic, wistful story of an art critic who falls in love with an artist whose greatest works…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 17

The sexbot who came between two best friends

Cat Rambo has just published a terrific story over on Lightspeed magazine, called “Long Enough and Just So Long.” It’s a spiky, bittersweet character study of two best friends, and how their relationship is changed when they meet a recently-liberated sexbot on the Moon. Rambo’s hardscrabble future, set in space colonies that are still developing,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 7

The Lightspeed Collection

io9 is proud to present selected fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed is a critically-acclaimed online magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction from near-future stories and sociological SF, to far-future and star-spanning SF. Plus, there’s fantasy from epic sword-and-sorcery and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism,…

io9 Lightspeed Magazine Jan 2

The right to life in a posthuman society

In a society where only unborn fetuses have souls, people who grow up are chattel called “arvies,” doomed to be controlled by biotech superfetuses from inside their wombs. But what happens when a fetus wants to have a baby? That’s the utterly weird question raised in Lightspeed Magazine’s latest story, “Arvies,” by Adam-Troy Castro. It’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 18

A conductor’s life, in the age of zeppelin travel

What was life really like for people who worked on zeppelins back in the nineteenth century? Was it all swashbuckling adventure, or were they helium-poisoned prisoners of the sky? In her incredible new short story, Genevieve Valentine has the answer. This week, Lightspeed Magazine features Valentine’s short story “The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball,”…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 20

After the depression, a strange group of families changed a small town forever

Carol Emschwiller, author of Carmen Dog and The Mount, has published an incredible new short story over at Lightspeed. It’s about the history-altering friendship between a young woman and an awkward, mysterious newcomer who moves into town. Set in a temporally-ambiguous small town after “the depression,” the story is told in Emschwiller’s characteristic style: spare,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 7

How will people regulate population growth in an eco-friendly future?

A lot of scifi transports us to a future world of high-tech plenitude. But in Carrie Vaughn’s short story “Amaryllis,” we get a more realistic future where human life is restricted to preserve the environment. The central conflict in this story is ancient – a young woman wants a child, but she and the potential…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 23

Why did NASA destroy that dome on the Moon?

In the latest story posted on Lightspeed Magazine, Jack McDevitt imagines that the 1969 Moon landing wasn’t the first. In fact, somebody else was there before we were – and NASA has been covering it up. Check out the story! Here’s the opening from McDevitt’s “The Cassandra Project”: It’s an odd fact that the biggest…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 8

John Joseph Adams Sees Your Dystopian Future, Starts A Magazine

John Joseph Adams has put out some of the most entertaining themed anthologies in the past few years, taking in zombies, vampires and interstellar civilizations. Now he’s putting out an anthology of dystopian fiction, and starting an online fiction magazine. Adams’ latest anthology project is called Brave New Worlds, and it’ll be published by Night…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 19

Lightspeed Presents . . . “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species,” by Ken Liu

Lightspeed Presents… “Requiem in the Key of Prose” by Jake Kerr

Lightspeed Presents… “The Cristóbal Effect” by Simon McCaffery

Lightspeed Presents… “Nightside on Callisto” by Linda Nagata

Lightspeed Presents… “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” by Vandana Singh

Lightspeed Presents… “The Day They Came” by Kali Wallace

Lightspeed Presents… “Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring” by Brooke Bolander

Lightspeed Presents… “How Many Miles to Babylon?” by Megan Arkenberg

Lightspeed Magazine’s captain is now also its engineer

Ursula K. Le Guin has a brand new reason to be scared of immortality

An art colony in Montana that’s haunted by aliens

The sexbot who came between two best friends

The Lightspeed Collection

The right to life in a posthuman society

A conductor’s life, in the age of zeppelin travel

After the depression, a strange group of families changed a small town forever

How will people regulate population growth in an eco-friendly future?

Why did NASA destroy that dome on the Moon?

John Joseph Adams Sees Your Dystopian Future, Starts A Magazine

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