LIGHTSPEED is a digital 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.

This month, we have original science fiction by Brian K. Hudson ("Virtually Cherokee") and Adam-Troy Castro ("Spaceman Jones"). We also have two terrific flash pieces: "Lament of a Specialist in Interspecies Relations" from Amy Johnson and "Every Bone A Bell" by Shaoni C. White. Plus, we have original fantasy by Bogi Takacs ("Construction Sacrifice") and Amanda Helms ("The House, the Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks"). We also have a flash story ("So You Want to Kiss Your Nemesis") from John Wiswell, and another ("When the Giants Came Through the Valley") from Derrick Boden. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. Our ebook readers will also enjoy an excerpt from Lavanya Lakshminarayan's novel THE TEN PERCENT THIEF.