Nonfiction
Cyborg vs. Cyborg by Nigel Watson
When biology and technology is mixed and matched, you get a big bad mean biomechanical fighting machine. Well, that’s what happens to cyborgs in the cinema and on our TV screens.
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Nonfiction
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Andrew Penn Romine
As for the grittiness of the setting, all you have to do is look to our own world to see the growing gap between the rich and poor.
Nonfiction
Science (and Swindlers) Can Read Your Mind
Up until very recently, if you wanted to have your mind read, you had to visit a psychic or a mentalist who would, for a small fee, pretend to do so.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Pat Cadigan
There are very few stories about older people in our field, or any other, for that matter. Most of the time, older people show up as disapproving parents or other authority figures.
Nonfiction
Interview: Richard Dawkins
It’s almost as though the American electorate is splitting into two species, with the civilized, educated ones on one hand and the total ignorant know-nothings on the other.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Vylar Kaftan
I think writers should write what they know—but if they don’t know it, they need to learn it. And that includes all the sciences.
Editorial
Editorial, December 2011
Welcome to issue nineteen of Lightspeed! Here’s what we’ve got on tap this month … Fiction: “The Sighted Watchmaker” by Vylar Kaftan, “After the Days of Dead-eye ‘Dee” by Pat Cadigan, “The Parting Glass” by Andrew Penn Romine,”The Hammer of God” by Arthur C. Clarke. Nonfiction: “Feature Interview: Richard Dawkins,” “Science (and Swindlers) Can Read Your Mind” by Jeff Lester, “Cyborg vs. Cyborg” by Nigel Wilson, “Armageddon Rock” by Alan Smale.
Artist Showcase
Artist Spotlight: Angel Alonso
Light, shadows, and atmosphere are all part of my essential work. I don’t like all the cold and artificial images that some artists are creating with the computer.
Nonfiction
Keeping the Dead Among the Living
If there really is, as the saying goes, more than one way to skin a cat, then it only stands to reason that there’d be more than one way to preserve its remains.
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: John Crowley
Charlie is in effect visiting the underworld, and trying to rescue Georgie. At bottom this is an Orpheus/Eurydice story of someone (a poet!) going under the earth to bring back a dead love, and failing.
