Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Genevieve Valentine
My guess is that most people who have held down a day job in a corporate atmosphere will recognize something of Mori with very little trouble.
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Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Forget Everything You’ve Ever Known About Amnesia
When we think of “amnesia,” we think of the classic soap opera example. A character endures some sort of emotionally traumatizing situation or blow to the head.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: John Varley
I didn’t want to do any medical research, either, in case my idea of losing all your memories when you went to sleep turned out not to be possible. Turns out it is possible, which is a relief.
Nonfiction
Five Ways to End an Alien Invasion
After all, they come to us. We barely have the means to leave low-Earth orbit, but these would-be conquerors have traveled light years with the express purpose of pressing us into human-flavored cider.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Will McIntosh
I envisioned this newly formed species standing around, not knowing what to value, how to go about creating their own culture and norms after their mission was complete.
Artist Showcase
Artist Spotlight: Tim Warnock
The vehicles in particular were just an exercise in form and surface exploration. Much of the buildings were sourced from photography I had taken that day. The people were a mix of painting and photography.
Editorial
Editorial, August 2011
Welcome to issue fifteen of Lightspeed! Here’s what we’ve got on tap this month … Fiction: “Defenders” by Will McIntosh, “Just Another Perfect Day” by John Varley, “The Nearest Thing” by Genevieve Valentine, “Non-Stop to Portales” by Connie Willis. Nonfiction: “Five Ways to End an Alien Invasion” by Jeremiah Tolbert, “Forget Everything You Already Know About Amnesia” by The Evil Monkey, “Four Milestones in the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence” by Graeme McMillan, “Feature Interview: Simon Pegg” by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley.
Nonfiction
Interview: Mary Doria Russell
What does it mean to be human in a large and frightening and beautiful universe? That’s an immense question, and there are many kinds of answers.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Karen Joy Fowler
I usually start a story believing I’m writing about one thing. But as the story unwinds, I usually find, a couple pages in, that I’m actually writing about something else entirely.
Nonfiction
The Superpowered Potential of Epigenetics
In the past few years, something very exciting happened in the field of human genetics: After decoding the human genome, scientists began to realize that the old paradigm of genes as the sole player of inheritance had to be modified.
