Welcome to issue thirty-one of Lightspeed! We’ve got another great issue for you this month; read the editorial to see what we have on tap.

Welcome to issue thirty of Lightspeed! We’ve got another great issue for you this month, so clickthrough to see what we have in store.

Welcome to issue twenty-nine of Lightspeed! We’ve got another great issue for you this month, so clickthrough to see what we have in store.

Welcome to issue twenty-eight of Lightspeed! We’ve got another great issue for you this month, so clickthrough to see what we have in store.

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Welcome to issue twenty-five of Lightspeed—our second anniversary issue! We’ve got another great issue for you this month, so click-thru to see what we have in store.

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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. You’ll also notice a new addition in our ebooks this month: We’re featuring an excerpt in this issue from a forthcoming novel: THE GAMES by Ted Kosmatka.