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 Izzy Wasserstein ("She Blooms and the World is Changed") and Timothy Mudie ("Blood for a Stranger"). We also have two terrific flash pieces: "Moons We Can Circumnavigate in One Day, or the Space Probe Love Story" from Natalia Theodoridou and "When Shiva Shattered the Time-Stream" by Sharang Biswas. Plus, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard ("One Heart, Lost and Found") and Wole Talabi ("Saturday's Song"). We also have a flash story ("The Sword, the Butterfly, and the Pearl") from Deborah L. Davitt, and another ("The Belfry Keeper") from S.L. Harris. 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 Cory Doctorow's new novel RED TEAM BLUES.