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: October 2024

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Oct. 2024 (Issue 173) | 197 words

Welcome to issue 173 of Lightspeed Magazine!

We’re starting off the beautiful month of October with a brand-new climate fiction short from Ai Jiang: “Ashes Like Tea Leaves, Lava Like Honey.” Russell Nichols explores the technological future of agriculture in his mystery-SF short “Autonomy of a Murder.” If you love robots, do not miss “The Life You’ve Given Me, Rusty,” a new flash piece from P.A. Cornell. Our second piece of SF flash, “Hot Hearts” by Lyndsie Manusos, explores the emotional side of terraforming.

Kenneth Schneyer returns to our pages with a dark fantasy short, “Winding Sheets,” which explores a mortician’s transformative experience. Philip Gelatt & JT Petty team up to write about a future corporation marketing all things mythological in their darkly hilarious tale “Sully the God.” Our flash includes “Zekelo’s Barterhouse & Emporium” by Patrick Hurley (as magical as its title promises) and the story of a very unusual prosthetics project in Ashlee Lhamon’s “Caesura.”

Our book review team brings you the latest recommendations and the author spotlight teams have sat down with our writers, so don’t miss our nonfiction.

It’s another issue cram-packed with delicious speculative fiction!

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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.