Lightspeed: Edited by John Joseph Adams

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Editorial

Editorial: March 2019

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Mar. 2019 (Issue 106) | 295 words

Welcome to Lightspeed’s 106th issue!

Our first order of business this month is to congratulate our 2018 Nebula finalists, José Pablo Iriarte and Sarah Pinsker. Both José’s novelette, “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births” (lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/substance-lives-accidents-births) and Sarah’s short story, “The Court Magician” (lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-court-magician) were published in our January 2018 issue. We are so excited and happy for them both!

In our current issue, Carolyn Ives Gilman takes citizen science to the stars in her original science fiction short “On the Shores of Ligeia.” Our other SF short, “My Children’s Home,” by Woody Dismukes, paints a picture of a far future orphanage with disturbing social implications. We also have SF reprints by Violet Allen (“The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves”) and Charlie Jane Anders (“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime”).

Mar Romasco-Moore brings us our first original fantasy short—“Self Storage Starts with the Heart”—which gives us a plastic-wrapped solution to loneliness. Of course, Ashok K. Banker’s series continues with “A Hundred Thousand Arrows,” a short story hinging on a very thrilling chariot race. We also have fantasy reprints by Richard Kadrey (“Ambitious Boys Like You”) and Kat Howard (“Those Are Pearls”).

All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns.

For our ebook readers, we have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the SF novella “Of Love and Other Monsters,” by Vandana Singh, and an excerpt from Arkady Martine’s new novel A Memory Called Empire.

Well, that’s all there is to report this month. Thanks for reading!

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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.