

Thanks so much to all who voted for the above-it’s an honor to be nominated. Buckell’s story from Cosmic Powers, “ Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance” (also reprinted in Lightspeed, February 2018), is a finalist for Best Short Story.


The Locus Award finalists have also been announced, and we’re very pleased to see that Lightspeed is among the finalists for Best Magazine, and yours truly is a finalist for Best Editor! In related news, my anthology Cosmic Powers is a finalist for Best Anthology, and Tobias S. To learn more, and to see the complete list of finalists, visit. The winners will be announced on July 15 at Readercon 29, in Quincy, Massachusettes. Huge congrats to Jeremiah and Kathleen, and to all of the other finalists. The Shirley Jackson Awards finalists have been announced, and we’re pleased to see that “ The West Topeka Triangle” by Jeremiah Tolbert (from Lightspeed, January 2017) is among the finalists we’re likewise pleased to see that “ You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych” by Kathleen Kayembe (from Nightmare, March 2017) is also a finalist. We also have excerpts from Meet Me in the Strange, a new novel by Leander Watts, and the novel The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty. Banker (“The Quiltbag”) and Emma Törzs (“From the Root”), and fantasy reprints by Micah Dean Hicks (“The Carpenter and the Beast of Teeth”) and Courtney Bird (“The Diamond Girl”).Īll that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns.įor our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the fantasy novella “There’s a Hole in October” by Todd McAulty. Plus, we have original fantasy by Ashok K. We also have an original SF piece by Lina Rather (“A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Lighthouse of Quvenle the Seer”), along with SF reprints by Russell Nichols (“Tie Goes to the Runner”) and James Cambias (“Contractual Obligation”). This month’s cover art is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating an original science fiction story by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor and Ada Hoffman (“I Sing Against the Silent Sun”). Welcome to issue ninety-seven of Lightspeed!

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