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: November 2019

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Nov. 2019 (Issue 114) | 216 words

Welcome to Lightspeed’s 114th issue!

Christopher D. Park created this month’s cover art to illustrate a new original fantasy story by Yoon Ha Lee. Want to find out just why this little monster is hanging out in a coffee shop? Read Lee’s “The Second-Last Client” and see! Our other original fantasy short plunges into the cold coastal waters of the Orkney Islands as Melissa Marr sends us “Knee Deep in the Sea.” We’re also sharing fantasy reprints by Theodora Goss (“A Country Called Winter”) and Ken Liu (“The Hidden Girl”).

We return to Robot Country—or at least Dominica Phetteplace’s Robot Country series—in “Her Appetite, His Heart,” a story of one man’s quest to make things right with his ex-girlfriend. Adam-Troy Castro also writes about love in his new short “Eros Pratfalled, or, Adrift in the Cosmos With Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen.” We also have SF reprints by Matthew Bright (“The Concubine’s Heart”) and Genevieve Valentine (“Overburden”).

All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. Our feature interview is with Rivers Solomon.

For our ebook readers, we also have an excerpt from Sonya Taaffe’s new fiction collection, Forget the Sleepless Shores.

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John Joseph Adams

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John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the New York Times bestselling editor of more than fifty anthologies, such as Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele). He is also editor (and publisher) of the Hugo Award-winning magazine Lightspeed and is publisher of its sibling-magazine Nightmare. Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award, a winner of the Stoker,  Locus, and ENNIE awards, and 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 was the editor of the John Joseph Adams Books novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lately, he’s been working as an editor and game designer on various TTRPG projects for Kobold Press, Paizo, and Monte Cook Games. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.