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Lights Out! [Vol. 1 No. 4, No. 4, June 1990] ed. Hunter Goatley (Hunter Goatley, $3.00, 24pp, quarto)
Subtitled “The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter”.

2 · Goat Busters · Hunter Goatley · ed

3 · Things Unearthed… · Hunter Goatley · cl

6 · Under the Fang · Robert R. McCammon · ar; original premise for the anthology of the same name.

7 · Mini-Interview: Clive Barker · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Clive Barker]; transcribed by Glen Leon from an appearance by Barker at the Central Library in Vancouver, February 8, 1990.

9 · Shapechangers · Robert R. McCammon & Jennifer Roberson · ar; transcribed by Richard Alan Kaapke from a panel discussion at Continuity 1990 in Birmingham, Alabama, February 10, 1990.

17 · Limited Editions, PCs and Stuff · Hunter Goatley · iv [Ref. Robert R. McCammon & Joe R. Lansdale]; conversation at the 1989 World Fantasy Convention in October 1989.

22 · Recommended Reading List · Hunter Goatley · ms

Lights Out! [Vol. 2 No. 1, No. 5, February 1991] ed. Hunter Goatley (Hunter Goatley, $3.00, 20pp, quarto)
Subtitled “The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter”.

2 · “And Now, the End Is Near…” · Hunter Goatley · ed

3 · The State of Where · Robert R. McCammon · ar

4 · Things Unearthed… · Hunter Goatley · cl

6 · Update: Joe Lansdale · Hunter Goatley · ms [Ref. Joe R. Lansdale]

7 · The Tenth Year of Camp NECON · Hunter Goatley · ar

9 · The 1990 World Fantasy Convention · Hunter Goatley · ar

11 · The Long-Awaited Letters Column · The Readers · lc

12 · Interview: Kazue Tanaka · Robert R. McCammon · iv [Ref. Kazue Tanaka]; conducted at the 1990 World Fantasy Convention.

14 · Exclusive Interview: Jeffrey Sackett · Hunter Goatley · iv [Ref. Jeffrey Sackett]; conducted by phone on July 8, 1990.

17 · Interview: Al Sarrantonio · Robert R. McCammon · iv [Ref. Al Sarrantonio]; conducted at the 1990 World Fantasy Convention.

19 · Recommended Reading List · Hunter Goatley · ms

Lights Out! [Vol. 2 No. 2, No. 6, October 1991] ed. Hunter Goatley (Hunter Goatley, $3.00, 28pp, quarto)
Subtitled “The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter”.

2 · “And Now, the End Is Near…” · Hunter Goatley · ed

3 · The Address · Robert R. McCammon · ex; excerpt from a novel about a house in Hollywood that McCammon abandoned in 1990.

22 · Things Unearthed… · Hunter Goatley · cl

23 · Exclusive Interview: Robert R. McCammon · Hunter Goatley · iv [Ref. Robert R. McCammon]; conducted August 31, 1991.

Lightspeed (about)

Lightspeed [Issue 1, June 2010] (online) (Full Text)
A printed sampler from this issue was distributed free for promotional purposes.

· Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in

· I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno · Vylar Kaftan · ss

· The Cassandra Project · Jack McDevitt · ss; not in printed sampler.

· Cats in Victory · David Barr Kirtley · ss; not in printed sampler.

· Amaryllis · Carrie Vaughn · ss

· Is There Anyone Out There Who Wants to Go Fast? · Mike Brotherton · ar

· The High Untresspassed Sanctity of Space: Seven True Stories about Eugene Cernan · Genevieve Valentine · ar; not in printed sampler.

· Top Ten Reasons Why Uplifted Animals Don’t Make Good Pets · Carol Pinchefsky · ar; not in printed sampler.

· Every Step We Take · Amanda Rose Levy · ar; not in printed sampler.

Lightspeed [Issue 2, July 2010] (online) (Full Text)

· No Time Like the Present · Carol Emshwiller · ss

· Manumission · Tobias S. Buckell · nv Jim Baen’s Universe April 2008

· The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball · Genevieve Valentine · ss

· “…for a single yesterday” · George R. R. Martin · nv Epoch ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Putnam, 1975

· Top Five Time Travel Nightmares · Carol Pinchefsky · ar

· You Are the Person You Are Now · The Evil Monkey · ar

· A Very Brief History of Airships · Gregory K. H. Bryant · ar

· Music Is Science Fiction: An Interview with The Lisps · Desirina Boskovich · iv

Lightspeed [Issue 3, August 2010] (online) (Full Text)

· How to Become a Mars Overlord · Catherynne M. Valente · ss

· Patient Zero · Tananarive Due · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2000

· Arvies · Adam-Troy Castro · ss

· More Than the Sum of His Parts · Joe Haldeman · nv Playboy May 1985

· Dear Mars · Pamela Gay · ar

· Bangs & Whimpers: A Look at the Top Five Doomsday Scenarios · Carol Pinchefsky · ar

· An Interview with Robert J. Sawyer · Andrea Kail · iv [Ref. Robert J. Sawyer]

· Cyborg-netics · Matt London · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 4, September 2010] (online) (Full Text)

· Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain · Yoon Ha Lee · ss

· The Long Chase · Geoffrey A. Landis · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2002

· Amid the Words of War · Cat Rambo · ss

· Travelers · Robert Silverberg · ss Amazing Stories Summer 1999

· Future Weapons · Jeff Hecht · ar

· Engines for the High Frontier · G. David Nordley · ar

· Five Reasons Why Aliens Make Better Lovers · Carol Pinchefsky · ar

· An Interview with John Scalzi · Erin Stocks · iv [Ref. John Scalzi]

Lightspeed [Issue 5, October 2010] (online) (Full Text)

· Hindsight · Sarah Langan · ss

· Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back · Joe R. Lansdale · nv Nukes ed. John Maclay, Maclay, 1986

· The Taste of Starlight · John R. Fultz · ss

· Beachworld · Stephen King · ss Weird Tales Fall 1984

· When Universes Collide · Dr. Pamela Gay · ar

· Feature Interview: Marc Laidlaw · Matt London · iv [Ref. Marc Laidlaw]

· Considering Cryonics · Gregory Benford · ar

· Five Planets That Will Kill You Dead · Genevieve Valentine · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 6, November 2010] (online) (Full Text)

· Standard Loneliness Package · Charles Yu · ss

· Faces in Revolving Souls · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Outsiders ed. Nancy Holder & Nancy Kilpatrick, Roc, 2005

· Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters · Alice Sola Kim · ss

· EJ-ES · Nancy Kress · nv Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian ed. Janis Ian, Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 2003

· Feature Interview: Chris Avellone · Matt London · iv [Ref. Chris Avellone]

· The Art and History of Body Modification · Lori St. Leone · ar

· Five Freaky Futures Your Kids Might Face · Genevieve Valentine · ar

· God Spots · The Evil Monkey · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 7, December 2010] (online) (Full Text)

· In-Fall · Ted Kosmatka · ss

· The Observer · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Front Lines ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2008

· Jenny’s Sick · David Tallerman · ss

· The Silence of the Asonu · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Orion 1998, as “The Wisdom of the Asonu”

· Black Holes: Starving and Misunderstood · Dr. Pamela Gay · ar

· Feature Interview: Greg Bear · John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley · iv [Ref. Greg Bear]

· Five Upcoming Plagues (We’re Doomed) · Genevieve Valentine · ar

· Linguistic Expectations · Lawrence M. Schoen · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 8, January 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow · Corey Mariani · ss

· Cucumber Gravy · Susan Palwick · ss Sci Fiction January 24 2001

· Black Fire · Tanith Lee · ss

· The Elephants of Poznan · Orson Scott Card · nv Galaxy Online January 2000
originally published in Polish (“Poznanskie slonie”, Nowa Fantastyka, May 1999).

· The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades · Genevieve Valentine · ar

· Neurotransmitters: God’s Way of Getting You High · Christopher Sedia · ar

· Feature Interview: The Redemption of Paolo Bacigalupi · Christie Yant · iv [Ref. Paolo Bacigalupi]

· Five Animals That Will Take Over the World After We Eradicate Ourselves · Jeremiah Tolbert · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 9, February 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Long Enough and Just So Long · Cat Rambo · ss

· The Passenger · Julie E. Czerneda · ss Treachery and Treason ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc, 2000

· Simulacrum · Ken Liu · ss

· Breakaway, Backdown · James Patrick Kelly · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1996

· When the Chatbots Come to Greet Us · Genevieve Valentine · ar

· Digital Lifeforms · Andrew Penn Romine · ar

· Where’s My Holovision · Jeff Hecht · ar

· Colonizing the Solar System in Four Easy Steps · Nicholos Wethington · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 10, March 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Saying the Names · Maggie Clark · ss

· Gossamer [Xeelee] · Stephen Baxter · nv Science Fiction Age November 1995

· Spider the Artist · Nnedi Okorafor · ss Seeds of Change ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books, 2008, as by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

· Woman Leaves Room · Robert Reed · ss

· You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions · Genevieve Valentine · ar

· Feature Interview: Walter Jon Williams · Chris Moriarty · iv [Ref. Walter Jon Williams]

· Retro Robots on the Battlefield · Daniel H. Wilson · ar

· Immortal Jellyfish and Transhuman You · Ekaterina Sedia · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 11, April 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· All That Touches the Air · An Owomoyela · ss

· Maneki Neko · Bruce Sterling · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1998
originally published in Japanese in Hayakawa’s Science Fiction Magazine.

· Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son · Tom Crosshill · ss

· Velvet Fields · Anne McCaffrey · ss Worlds of If November/December 1973

· Parasitic Puppetmasters · Wendy Wagner · ar

· TANSTAAFL: There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch · Jeff Lester · ar

· The Many Worlds Interpretation Theory: Having Your Cake and Eating It Two, and Three, and Four… · Brad Deutsch · ar

· Feature Interview: Elizabeth Bear · Erin Stocks · iv [Ref. Elizabeth Bear]

Lightspeed [Issue 12, May 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· The Harrowers · Eric Gregory · ss

· Bibi from Jupiter · Tessa Mellas · ss Story Quarterly 2007

· Eliot Wrote · Nancy Kress · ss

· Scales · Alastair Reynolds · ss The Guardian June 23 2009

· Feature Interview: Jill Tarter · Genevieve Valentine · iv [Ref. Jill Tarter]

· The Icy Ecosystem of Europa · Dr. Pamela Gay · ar

· When the Brain Sees God on a Toaster Pastry · The Evil Monkey · ar

· Whose Thoughts Are You Thinking? · Laura Waterstripe · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 13, June 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole · K. C. Ball · ss

· Frost Painting · Carolyn Ives Gilman · nv Bending the Landscape: Fantasy ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, White Wolf, 1997

· Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor · Grady Hendrix · ss

· Recording Angel · Ian McDonald · ss Interzone #104, February 1996

· Dividing by Zero · Mike Brotherton · ar

· Dissolving the Wall Between Art and Science · Graeme McMillan · ar

· Six A.I. Types Who Annoy Us to Death · Genevieve Valentine · ar

· Feature Interview: Mary Roach · John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley · iv [Ref. Mary Roach]

Lightspeed [Issue 14, July 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· The Cold Equations · Tom Godwin · nv Astounding Science Fiction August 1954

· The Old Equations · Jake Kerr · ss

· Sweet Sixteen · Kat Howard · ss

· Face Value · Karen Joy Fowler · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November 1986

· The Cold Legacies · Mike Brotherton · ar

· The First Step to Enlightenment Is Abject Failure · Jeff Hecht · ar

· The Superpowered Potential of Epigenetics · Ekaterina Sedia · ar

· Feature Interview: Mary Doria Russell · Kat Howard · iv [Ref. Mary Doria Russell]

Lightspeed [Issue 15, August 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Defenders · Will McIntosh · ss

· Just Another Perfect Day · John Varley · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine June 1989

· The Nearest Thing · Genevieve Valentine · nv

· Non-Stop to Portales · Connie Willis · nv The Williamson Effect ed. Roger Zelazny, Tor, 1996

· Five Ways to End an Alien Invasion · Jeremiah Tolbert · ar

· Forget Everything You Already Know About Amnesia · The Evil Monkey · ar

· Four Milestones in the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence · Graeme McMillan · ar

· Feature Interview: Simon Pegg · John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley · iv [Ref. Simon Pegg]

Lightspeed [Issue 16, September 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Join · Liz Coleman · ss

· Bubbles · David Brin · ss The Universe ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam Spectra, 1987

· Thief of Futures · D. Thomas Minton · ss

· The Island of the Immortals · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Amazing Stories Fall 1998

· Vulcanize, Wookify, and Alienate Yourself · Esther Inglis-Arkell · ar

· The Lonely Universe · Dr. Pamela Gay · ar

· Feature Interview: Lois McMaster Bujold · Jeff Lester · iv [Ref. Lois McMaster Bujold]

· Immortals That Show Us That Death Is the Best Option · Shaenon Garrity · ar

Lightspeed [Issue 17, October 2011] (online) (Full Text)

· Her Husband’s Hands · Adam-Troy Castro · ss

· The Little Bear · Justina Robson · ss Constellations ed. Peter Crowther, DAW, 2005

· Against Eternity · David Farland · ss

· Some Fortunate Future Day · Cassandra Clare · ss Steampunk! ed. Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, Walker, 2011

· The Care and Feeding of Your Disembodied Lungs · Lauren Davis · ar

· The Physics of a Populated Universe · Dr. Pamela Gay · ar

· Saving Your Brain to a Disk · Jeff Hecht · ar

· Feature Interview: Beth Revis · Gwenda Bond · iv [Ref. Beth Revis]

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