Nonfiction
Interview: Mary Doria Russell
What does it mean to be human in a large and frightening and beautiful universe? That’s an immense question, and there are many kinds of answers.
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Nonfiction
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Karen Joy Fowler
I usually start a story believing I’m writing about one thing. But as the story unwinds, I usually find, a couple pages in, that I’m actually writing about something else entirely.
Nonfiction
The Superpowered Potential of Epigenetics
In the past few years, something very exciting happened in the field of human genetics: After decoding the human genome, scientists began to realize that the old paradigm of genes as the sole player of inheritance had to be modified.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Kat Howard
One of my colleagues wrote about was the idea of “requickening,” which, to vastly oversimplify, was the thought that by taking on a saint’s name, a convert also took on a part of that saint’s identity.
Nonfiction
The First Step to Enlightenment is Abject Failure
Philosophers like to think science works in an orderly way, in which scientists propose hypotheses, conduct experiments to validate their ideas, then emerge triumphantly from the laboratory to publish their results. Sometimes that happens.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Jake Kerr
We all face loss, and we all face how cold and harsh reality can be at times. To see or feel that this is shared by all of us is powerful, even through as simple a vehicle as a science fiction story.
Nonfiction
The Cold Legacies
Just as a single important equation in physics can hold a myriad of solutions and describe a dazzling array of behavior, so too a sufficiently rich story.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Tom Godwin
The Cold Equations” was originally published in Astounding Magazine in 1954, and was Godwin’s fourth published story.
Editorial
Editorial, July 2011
Welcome to issue fourteen of Lightspeed! Here’s what we’ve got on tap this month … Fiction: “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin, “The Old Equations” by Jake Kerr, “Sweet Sixteen” by Kat Howard, “Face Value” by Karen Joy Fowler. Nonfiction: “The Cold Legacies” by Mike Brotherton, “The First Step to Enlightenment is Abject Failure” by Jeff Hecht, “The Superpowered Potential of Epigenetics” by Ekaterina Sedia, “Feature Interview: Mary Doria Russell” by Kat Howard.
Artist Showcase
Artist Spotlight: Maurizio Manzieri
The world turned digital some years ago, but I like to be in touch with pencils and paper during the preparatory phase. A few strolls in the lush woods surrounding my studio help definitely!
