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: September 2019

by John Joseph Adams

Published in Sep. 2019 (Issue 112) | 193 words

Welcome to Lightspeed’s 112th issue!

This month’s cover art is from Galen Dara. It’s illustrating a new fantasy short by Brooke Bolander, “A Bird, a Song, a Revolution,” that blends the Neolithic with the post-apocalyptic. We also have a new Weird Western short from Rajan Khanna (“All In”), and fantasy reprints by Micah Dean Hicks (“Flight of the Crow Boys”) and Kiini Ibura Salaam (“Desire”).

Our original science fiction shorts include a very unique prison experience run by some very unique artificial intelligences in Adam-Troy Castro’s new short, “Sacrid’s Pod.” In our other original short, Jenny Rae Rappaport writes about motherhood and time paradoxes in “The Answer That You Are Seeking.” We also have SF reprints by Ramez Naam (“Exile from Extinction”) and Seanan McGuire (“Hello, Hello”).

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 this month is with debut novelist Lisa Bradley. And if you’re reading our ebook edition, we also have an exclusive excerpt from Annalee Newitz’s new novel The Future of Another Timeline.

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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.