Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 69 (February 2016)

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 Rachael K. Jones ("Charlotte Incorporated") and Sarah Pinsker ("Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea"), along with SF reprints by Samuel Peralta ("Hereafter") and Paul McAuley ("Transitional Forms"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Jeremiah Tolbert ("Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass") and Karin Tidbeck ("Starfish"), and fantasy reprints by Rachel Swirsky ("Monstrous Embrace") and Christopher Barzak ("Map of Seventeen"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book reviews and our new media review column. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella "May Be Some Time," by Brenda W. Clough. We also have an excerpt from the novel A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab.