Edited by New York Times bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, LIGHTSPEED is a Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction and fantasy short fiction 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.
 
Welcome to issue 197 of LIGHTSPEED! This month's original science fiction offerings are by Adam-Troy Castro ("The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana") and Rob Cameron ("Ice Like Honey"), the latter of which we're publishing in partnership with Dartmouth University and MIT Press.
 
Our two science fiction flash pieces are: "Guidance" by Martin Cahill and "Master/Slave Couple Seeking Physicist to Feed to a Black Hole" by Arden Powell. Our original fantasy offerings are by Susan Palwick ("Uncanny Jack") and Marissa Lingen ("Until the Cure"). Our two fantasy flash pieces are: "All the Shapes We Have Ever Been" by Kehkashan Khalid and "Congratulations on your Magic Sword™" by John Wiswell.