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The Care and Feeding of Your Disembodied Lungs
We’ve come a long way from cultivating a handful of cancer cells in a lab, and every day scientists learn more about the particular wants and needs of our tissues and organs.
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Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro
I will confess that I had absolutely no medical realities in mind when I conceived this story, just the dark emotions that drive it.
Editorial
Editorial, October 2011
Welcome to issue seventeen of Lightspeed! On tap this month … Fiction: “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro, “The Little Bear” by Justina Robson, “Against Eternity” by David Farland, “Some Fortunate Future Day” by Cassandra Clare. Nonfiction: “The Care and Feeding of Your Disembodied Lungs” by Lauren Davis, “The Physics of a Populated Universe” by Dr. Pamela Gay, “Saving Your Brain to a Disk” by Jeff Hecht, “Feature Interview: Beth Revis” by Gwenda Bond.
Artist Showcase
Artist Spotlight: Francoise Beuzelin & Falk Haensel
I am always fascinated with the contrast of organic (alive) and mechanic (dead) things on our earth and how they both are somewhat connected.
Nonfiction
Immortals That Show Us That Death Is The Best Option
Before you sign up for immortality, be forewarned: It isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Even in the comparatively sweet world of fiction there are plenty of souls embittered by immortality.
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Interview: Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold is running out of things to win. She’s won the Hugo Award for best novel many times over. She’s won the Nebula Award twice, the Mythopoeic Award for adult novel, and three Locus Awards.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: D. Thomas Minton
One of the primary influences for this story was a recent trip to Indonesia. While I experienced nothing like Trenchtown in my travels, the smells, sounds and sights of Indonesia permeate “Thief of Futures.”
Nonfiction
The Lonely Universe
In school we learn the Sun is eight light minutes away or about 150,000,000 kilometers distant. These are just large numbers, though, and we don’t really have a sense of them.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: David Brin
The long debate over the long-range fate of the universe is still unsettled. For a while the notion of a Cyclical Cosmos reigned … that eventually the Big Bang’s expansion would peter out and gravity would pull everything back into a Big Crunch.
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Vulcanize, Wookify, and Alienate Yourself
If aliens were to step off the screen and into the real world, they’d see nothing more than crude imitations: papier-mâché and facial putty. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
