Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014

By Damien Angelica Walters, Nik Houser, Rachael Acks, and more

2014

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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. This month, we have original science fiction by Shale Nelson ("Pay Phobetor") and Vandana Singh ("Wake-Rider"), along with SF reprints by N. K. Jemisin ("Valedictorian") and Paul Park ("The Lost Sepulcher of Huascar Capec"). We also have a bonus story to wrap up this year: a reprint of "They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain," by Rachael Acks, which first appeared in the limited edition of June's Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. Plus, we have original fantasy by Nik Houser ("The Drawstring Detective") and Damien Angelica Walters ("A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take"), and fantasy reprints by Delia Sherman ("The Faerie Cony-Catcher") and Nalo Hopkinson ("Soul Case"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with authors Kim Harrison and Steven Gould. For our ebook readers, we also have our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint: "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines" by John Crowley. We also have excerpts from UNDERCITY by Catherine Asaro and from Sergei Lukyanenko's new novel, THE GENOME.

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Authors

Damien Angelica Walters

Author · 17 books

Damien Angelica Walters is the author of The Dead Girls Club, Cry Your Way Home, Paper Tigers, and Sing Me Your Scars, winner of the 2015 This is Horror Award for Short Story Collection of the Year. Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and The Year's Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including the Shirley Jackson Award Finalists Autumn Cthulhu and The Madness of Dr. Caligari, World Fantasy Award Finalist Cassilda’s Song, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Apex Magazine. Until the magazine’s closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede, and she lives in Maryland with her husband and two rescued pit bulls.

Alex Acks (formerly known as Rachael Acks) is a writer, geologist, and sharp-dressed sir. Their debut biker gang space witch novel, Hunger Makes the Wolf, was published by Angry Robot Books under the pen name Alex Wells. They’ve had short fiction in Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and more, and write movie reviews for Strange Horizons and Mothership Zeta. They’ve also written several episodes of Six to Start’s Superhero Workout game. Alex lives in Denver (where they bicycle, drink tea, and twirl their ever-so-dapper mustache) with their two furry little bastards. For more information, see http://www.alexacks.com

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. He is also the bestselling editor of many other anthologies, such as ROBOT UPRISINGS, DEAD MAN'S HAND, BRAVE NEW WORLDS,WASTELANDS, and THE LIVING DEAD. Recent and forthcoming books include WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?, OPERATION ARCANA, PRESS START TO PLAY, LOOSED UPON THE WORLD, and THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH (consisting of THE END IS NIGH, THE END IS NOW, and THE END HAS COME). Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been nominated nine times), is a seven-time World Fantasy Award finalist, and served as a judge for the 2015 National Book Award. John is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE, and is a producer for Wired's THE GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY podcast. You can find him online at www.johnjosephadams.com and on Twitter @JohnJosephAdams.