LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
It could be said that women invented science fiction; after all, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is considered by many to be the first science fiction novel. Yet some readers seem to have this funny idea that women don’t, or can’t, write science fiction. Some have even gone so far as to accuse women of destroying science fiction with their girl cooties.
So, to help prove how silly that notion is, LIGHTSPEED’s June 2014 issue is a double-sized special issue: an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women.
Guest-edited by longtime LIGHTSPEED assistant editor Christie Yant, the Women Destroy Science Fiction! issue features original short stories by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, N.K. Jemisin, Carrie Vaughn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, and many others.
All together, there’s more than 180,000 words of material, including: 11 original short stories, 15 original flash fiction stories, 4 short story reprints and a novella reprint, an excerpt of the new novel Artemis Awakening by Jane Lindskold, 7 nonfiction articles, and 28 personal essays by women about their experiences reading and writing science fiction. [Table of Contents]
The issue is on sale now from the following vendors:
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If you’d like to learn more about the issue, try the following:
- A Message from the Guest Editor
- Table of Contents
- Free Online Edition (includes about half of the issue; contents serialized throughout the month)
- Women Destroy Essays
- WDSF Staff
- Kickstarter Backers
- Kickstarter Campaign
