Lightspeed: Edited by John Joseph Adams

ADVERT: The Time Traveler's Passport, curated by John Joseph Adams, published by Amazon Original Stories. Six short stories. Infinite possibilities. Stories by John Scalzi, R.F. Kuang, Olivie Blake, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, and Peng Shepherd. Illustration of A multicolored mobius strip with folds and angles to it, with the silhouette of a person walking on one side of it.

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Chris Willrich

Chris Willrich lives with his family in the otherworldly environs of Silicon Valley, where he works as a children’s librarian. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Gate, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Flashing Swords, and The Mythic Circle. You can find him irregularly on his blog at Goblins in the Library and […]

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Marc Laidlaw

Marc Laidlaw is best known as one of the creators and lead writer on the Half-Life videogame series, but he initially got that gig on the strength of his short stories and novels of fantasy, horror and science fiction. His novel The 37th Mandala won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel. A writer […]

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Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender is the author of five books, including the bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and the NY Times Notable Book The Color Master. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.

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Sarah Monette

Sarah Monette grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project, and now lives in a 105-year-old house in the Upper Midwest with a great many books, two cats, one grand piano, and one husband. Her Ph.D. diploma (English Literature, 2004) hangs in the kitchen. She has published […]

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Marissa Lingen

Marissa Lingen writes science fiction and fantasy, poems, and essays. She lives in Minnesota atop some of the oldest bedrock in North America. She has a deep fondness for sagas, apples, and tisanes.

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Brooke Bolander

Brooke Bolander’s fiction has won the Nebula & Locus Awards and been shortlisted for the Hugo, Shirley Jackson, Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. Her work has been featured in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Tor.com, and the New York Times, among other venues. She currently resides in New York City.

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M. Rickert

Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert worked as kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, was published in 2014, and won the Locus award. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, […]

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Keith Brooke

Keith Brooke’s first novel, Keepers of the Peace, appeared in 1990. Since then he has published eight more adult novels, six collections, and more than 70 short stories. His novel Genetopia was published by Pyr in February 2006 and was their first title to receive a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Accord, published by […]

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S. L. Gilbow

S. L. Gilbow is a 2011 graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. He has published six stories to date, five in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and one in John Joseph Adams’s anthology Federations. He debuted in the February 2007 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with “Red Card,” a dystopian SF story in the vein of Shirley Jackson’s […]

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Steven Utley

Steven Utley, a founding member of the Turkey City writing workshop in Texas during the 1970s, is the author of three story collections, Ghost Seas (Ticonderoga Publ., 1997), The Beasts of Love (Wheatland Press, 2005), and Where or When (PS Publ., 2006), and co-editor of the anthologies Lone Star Universe (with Geo. W. Proctor, Heidelberg […]

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