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 JY Yang ("Secondhand Bodies") and the collaborative team of Keith Brooke and Eric Brown ("Beyond the Heliopause"), along with SF reprints by Jason Gurley ("The Dark Age") and Kate Bachus ("Pinono Deep"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Will McIntosh ("The Savannah Liars Tour") and Kat Howard ("Maiden, Hunter, Beast"), and fantasy reprints by Peter S. Beagle ("La Lune T'Attend") and Leena Krohn ("The Gorgonoids"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with a feature interview, the latest installment of our book review column, and the debut of the new movie review column by bestselling author Carrie Vaughn. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint of "Griffin's Egg," by Michael Swanwick, and a novel excerpt from Barsk by Lawrence M. Schoen.