Lightspeed: Edited by John Joseph Adams

ADVERTISEMENT: Red, White, and Blue ad gif with slides saying: Impeach Trump, Remove Trump, Imprison Trump, and No Kings, No Tyrants

Advertisement

Authors

Author

Catherine Wells

Catherine Wells is the author of numerous novels and short stories of speculative fiction, including the AnLab Award-winning Best Novella of 2015, “Builders of Leaf Houses.” Retired from a 20+ year career in corporate libraries, she enjoys hiking, bicycling, playing bass guitar, and singing with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus. For more about Catherine, her […]

Author

Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. She studied English Literature at Brown University and did graduate work in Computer Science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows […]

Author

Leander Watts

An avid musician, Leander Watts has played and sung for decades in a wide variety of bands. His interests range from garage rock to skronky jazz, from baroque organ to Appalachian gospel. The first rock concert he attended was David Bowie on the Diamond Dogs tour in 1974. He teaches writing and literature at the […]

Author

Ada Hoffmann

Ada Hoffmann (they/them) is the author of the upcoming sci-fi novel Ignore All Previous Instructions, as well as the Outside space opera trilogy, the collections Resurrections, Monsters in My Mind, and Million-Year Elegies, and dozens of speculative short stories and poems. Ada’s novel-length work is represented by Hannah Bowman. Ada was diagnosed with autism at […]

Author

Russell Nichols

Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he got rid of all his stuff in 2011 to live out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world ever since. Look for him at russellnichols.com.

Author

James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias’s first novel, A Darkling Sea, was published by Tor Books in 2014, followed by Corsair in 2015. His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Shimmer, Nature, and several anthologies. Mr. Cambias has written for Steve Jackson Games, Hero Games, and other game companies, and is a […]

Author

Emma Törzs

Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize. She’s an enthusiastic member of the Clarion West class […]

Author

Todd McAulty

Todd McAulty lives in Chicago. Zircon Border and Barry Simcoe both appeared in his first novel, The Robots of Gotham, published by John Joseph Adams Books in 2018. He is hard at work on the sequel. Under the name John O’Neill, he runs the World Fantasy Award-winning website Black Gate (www.blackgate.com).

Author

Courtney Bird

Courtney Bird’s stories have appeared in the Fairy Tale Review, the Indiana Review, the Masters Review, and Barrelhouse, among others. She has an MFA from the University of Montana and a BA in art history from Princeton. She is currently working on her first novel.

Author

Emily Devenport

Emily Devenport’s short stories have been featured in various esteemed publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the Full Spectrum anthology, The Mammoth Book of Kaiju, Uncanny, Cicada, Science Fiction World, Clarkesworld, and Aboriginal SF, whose readers voted her a Boomerang Award. She currently studies geology and works as a volunteer […]

ADVERTISEMENT: Robot Wizard Zombie Crit! Newsletter (for Lightspeed, Nightmare, and John Joseph Adams' Anthologies)
Discord Wordmark
Keep up with Lightspeed, Nightmare, and John Joseph Adams' anthologies, as well as SF/F news and reviews, discussion of RPGs, and more.

Delivered to your inbox once a week. Subscribers also get a free ebook anthology for signing up.
Join the Lightspeed Discord server to chat and share opinions with fellow Lightspeed readers.

Discord is basically like a cross between a instant messenger and an old-school web forum.

Join to chat about SF/F short stories, books, movies, tv, games, and more!