Lightspeed: Edited by John Joseph Adams

Slide 1: in a fun, witchy font: Magic & Mystery, Amazon Original Stories; Slide 2-5: Fantasy Authors Turn to Crime, Curated by John Joseph Adams: Lists authors Travis Baldree, Sarah Beth Durst, Heather Fawcett, Scott Lynch, Tananarive Due, J.M. Miro, and Robert Jackson Bennet. Slide 6: Small renderings of all seven book covers; Slide 7: a magical cat face with paw prints to the left and right, with the words "The Game is Afoot / July 28".

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Editorial

Editorial: February 2019

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Feb. 2019 (Issue 105) | 227 words

Welcome to Lightspeed’s 105th issue!

This month, Matthew Baker looks beyond Orange Is the New Black to imagine the future of corrections. Is his idea better than our current prison system? Decide for yourself after you read “Life Sentence.”

If you like your science fiction with a steampunk flavor, we’re happy to share “Harry and Marlowe and the Disinclined Laboratory,” the latest installment in Carrie Vaughn’s The Aetherian Revolution series. We also have SF reprints from Elizabeth Bear (“Okay, Glory”) and Gord Sellar (“The Incursus by Asimov-NN#71”).

Our fantasy selections start off with an original take on Canadian folklore from KT Bryski: “Ti-Jean’s Last Adventure, as Told to Raccoon,” a tale of trickster versus trickster. The saga of Vrath and Sha’ant continues in the newest installment of Ashok K. Banker’s Legends of the Burnt Empire, “The Terrible Oath.” We also have fantasy reprints by Crystal Koo (“The Perpetual Day”) and Dennis Danvers (“Healing Benjamin”).

Our nonfiction lovers will enjoy our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We also have an interview with author Lilliam Rivera.

For our ebook readers, we have an ebook-exclusive reprint of Kat Howard’s novella “Hath No Fury.” Our book excerpt is from Micah Dean Hicks’ new novel, Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones.

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John Joseph Adams

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John Joseph Adams is the editor and publisher of the Hugo Award-winning Lightspeed and publisher of its sibling magazine, Nightmare. He’s also the editor of more than fifty anthologies, including the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series, Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and the New York Times bestselling Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele). John is a winner of the Hugo, Stoker, Locus, and British Fantasy awards, and is a ten-time World Fantasy Award finalist. In addition to his short fiction work, he’s the co-creator of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, and for five years he ran a novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lately, he’s also been working as an editor and game designer on TTRPG projects for Kobold Press, Paizo, and Monte Cook Games. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.