Prime
Books Announces Lightspeed, a New Science Fiction Magazine
ROCKVILLE, MD, OCT. 16 -- Prime Books, the award-winning
independent press and publisher of Fantasy Magazine, announced
today that in June 2010 it will launch a new online magazine called Lightspeed
(www.lightspeedmagazine.com), which will publish four science fiction
short stories every month, along with an assortment of non-fiction
features. Lightspeed will be edited by John Joseph Adams, the
bestselling editor of anthologies such as Wastelands and The
Living Dead, and Andrea Kail, a writer, critic, and television
producer who worked for thirteen years on Late Night with Conan
O'Brien. Adams will select and edit the fiction, while Kail will
handle the non-fiction.
Lightspeed will focus exclusively on science fiction. It will
feature all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to
far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in
between. No subject will be considered off-limits, and writers will be
encouraged to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.
New content will be posted twice a week, including one piece of
fiction, and one piece of non-fiction. The fiction selections each
month will consist of two original stories and two reprints, except for
the debut issue, which will feature four original pieces of fiction.
All of the non-fiction will be original.
Lightspeed will open to fiction submissions and non-fiction
queries on January 1, 2010. Guidelines for fiction and non-fiction will
be available on Lightspeed's website, www.lightspeedmagazine.com, by
December 1, 2009.
About John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams (www.johnjosephadams.com) is the bestselling editor
of many anthologies, such as By Blood We Live, Federations, The
Living Dead (a World Fantasy Award finalist), and Wastelands:
Stories of the Apocalypse. He has been called "the reigning king of
the anthology world" by Barnes & Noble's Unabashedly Bookish
blog and his anthology The Living Dead was named one of the
best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. In addition to his
editorial work, he is also currently a reviewer for Audible.com, a
blogger for Tor.com, and the co-host of the podcast The Geek's
Guide to the Galaxy.
About Andrea Kail
Andrea Kail (www.andreakail.com) is a graduate of the Dramatic Writing
Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has spent the last two
decades working from one end of New York's television spectrum to the
other: HBO, MTV, A&E, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, as well as
thirteen years at NBC's Emmy Award-winning Late Night with Conan
O'Brien. Her fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, and
her novella, "The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom," was a
first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest and
appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. XXIII. Since 2005,
Andrea has also been writing lively film criticism for such venues as Paradox
Magazine and CinemaSpy.
About Prime Books
Prime Books (www.prime-books.com), edited and published by Hugo
Award-nominee and World Fantasy Award-winner Sean Wallace, is an
award-winning independent publishing house specializing in a mix of
anthologies, collections, novels, and magazines. Some of its
established and new authors/editors include John Joseph Adams, KJ
Bishop, Philip K. Dick, Theodora Goss, Rich Horton, Nick Mamatas, Sarah
Monette, Holly Phillips, Tim Pratt, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M.
Valente, and Jeff VanderMeer.
Contacts
Sean Wallace, publisher, sean@lightspeedmagazine.com
John Joseph Adams, fiction editor, john@lightspeedmagazine.com
Andrea Kail, non-fiction editor, andrea@lightspeedmagazine.com