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Lightspeed [#25, June 2012] (online) (Full Text) The Cosmology of the Wider World [Part 2 of 2] · Jeffrey Ford · na PS Publishing 2005 Existence [Existence] · David Brin · ex Tor 2012 The Killing Moon · N. K. Jemisin · ex Orbit 2012 Artist Showcase: Marc Simonetti · Anon. · iv Interview: Morgan Spurlock · Anon. · iv Interview: Anne Rice · Anon. · iv My Teacher, My Enemy · Kelsey Ann Barrett · ss Renfrew’s Course · John Langan · ss Lost · Seanan McGuire · ss Cup and Table · Tim Pratt · ss Twenty Epics, ed. David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, All-Star Stories 2006 A Plague of Zhe · Maggie Clark · ss The Cristóbal Effect · Simon McCaffery · ss Contact · Eileen Gunn · ss Proteus, ed. Richard S. McEnroe, Ace 1981 The Way of Cross and Dragon [Thousand Worlds] · George R. R. Martin · nv Omni Jun 1979

Lightspeed [#26, July 2012] (online) (Full Text) Lune and the Red Empress · Liz Williams & Alastair Reynolds · na Odyssey 2010 61st British National Convention Souvenir Book, ed. Anon. 2010 Spin the Sky · Katy Stauber · ex Night Shade Books 2012 vN [Machine Dynasties] · Madeline Ashby · ex Angry Robot 2012 Artist Showcase: Chris Cold & Tobias Roetsch · Anon. · iv Interview: Brian Greene · Anon. · iv Interview: Garth Nix · Anon. · iv The Sweet Spot · A. M. Dellamonica · ss Requiem in the Key of Prose · Jake Kerr · ss Four Short Novels · Joe Haldeman · gp The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2003 _ · Remembrance of Things Past · Joe Haldeman · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2003 _ · Crime and Punishment · Joe Haldeman · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2003 _ · War and Peace · Joe Haldeman · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2003 _ · The Way of All Flesh · Joe Haldeman · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2003 The Giving Plague · David Brin · nv Interzone Spr 1988 Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream · Maria Dahvana Headley · ss Ghost River Red · Aidan Doyle · ss Singing of Mount Abora · Theodora Goss · ss Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, ed. John Klima, Bantam Spectra 2007 Gordon, the Self-Made Cat · Peter S. Beagle · ss The Raven May 2005

Lightspeed [#27, August 2012] (online) (Full Text) A Separate War [The Forever War] · Joe Haldeman · ss Far Horizons, ed. Robert Silverberg, Avon Eos 1999 Kitty Steals the Show [Kitty the werewolf] · Carrie Vaughn · ex Tor 2012 Artist Showcase: Hrvoje Bešlić · Anon. · iv Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson · Anon. · iv Interview: Seanan McGuire · Anon. · iv Breaking the Frame · Kat Howard · ss A Moment Before It Struck · Linda Nagata · ss The Necromancer in Love · Wil McCarthy · ss Jim Baen’s Universe Oct 2007 Cotillion · Delia Sherman · nv Firebirds, ed. Sharyn November, Firebird 2003 The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species · Ken Liu · ss Flash Bang Remember · Caroline M. Yoachim & Tina Connolly · ss Love Might Be Too Strong a Word · Charlie Jane Anders · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #22 2008 Slow Life · Michael Swanwick · nv Analog Dec 2002

Lightspeed [#28, September 2012] (online) (Full Text) The Green Leopard Plague [Dr. Davout] · Walter Jon Williams · na Asimov’s Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2003 The Eternal Flame · Greg Egan · nv Artist Showcase: Frank Hong · Anon. · iv Artist Showcase: Galen Dara · Anon. · iv Interview: John Scalzi · Anon. · iv My Wife Hates Time Travel · Adam-Troy Castro · ss Sun Dogs · Brooke Bolander · ss Boojum [Boojumverse] · Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette · nv Fast Ships, Black Sails, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Night Shade Books 2008 The Streets of Ashkelon · Harry Harrison · ss New Worlds Science Fiction Sep 1962 Monsters, Finders, Shifters · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss The Seven Samovars · Peter Sursi · ss The Last Supper · Scott Edelman · ss The Book of Final Flesh, ed. James Lowder, Eden Studios 2003 Heartless · Holly Black · ss Young Warriors, ed. Tamora Pierce & Josepha Sherman, Random House 2005

Lightspeed [#29, October 2012] (online) (Full Text) Dragonfly [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg, Tor 1998 Blackwood · Gwenda Bond · ex Strange Chemistry 2012 Artist Showcase: R.J. Palmer · Anon. · iv Interview: David Brin · Anon. · iv Interview: Ursula K. Le Guin · Anon. · iv Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment · Robert Reed · ss Nearly Departed [Deadpan Allie] · Pat Cadigan · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Jun 1983 Art of War · Nancy Kress · ss The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2007 Bear and Shifty · Benjamin Parzybok · ss The Black Bird · David Barr Kirtley · ss New Voices in Science Fiction, ed. Mike Resnick, DAW 2003 Spindles · L. B. Gale · ss Beyond the Reach of His Gods · Brian Ruckley · ss The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition · Megan Arkenberg · ss

Lightspeed [#30, November 2012] (online) (Full Text) West [Carpenter] · Orson Scott Card · na Free Lancers, ed. Elizabeth Mitchell, Baen 1987 The Inexplicables · Cherie Priest · ex Tor 2012 Artist Showcase: Erik Schumacher · Anon. · iv Interview: Alastair Reynolds · Anon. · iv Interview: Terry Brooks · Anon. · iv Searching for Slave Leia · Sandra McDonald · ss A Well-Adjusted Man · Tom Crosshill · ss Ace 167 · Eleanor Arnason · ss Orbit 15, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row 1974 A Game of Rats and Dragon · Tobias S. Buckell · ss Mitigated Futures, Tobias S. Buckell 2012 La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza · Jeremiah Tolbert · ss Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns · Richard Bowes · ss As the Wheel Turns · Aliette de Bodard · nv Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine Sum 2010 A Princess of Spain [Kitty the werewolf] · Carrie Vaughn · nv The Secret History of Vampires, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW 2007

Lightspeed [#31, December 2012] (online) (Full Text) Story of Your Life · Ted Chiang · na Starlight 2, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 1998 Cold Days · Jim Butcher · ex Roc 2012 Artist Showcase: Luis Lasahido · Anon. · iv Interview: Junot Díaz · Anon. · iv Interview: Tad Williams · Anon. · iv Dreams in Dust · D. Thomas Minton · ss The Perfect Match · Ken Liu · ss Swanwatch · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Federations, ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books 2009 Lázaro y Antonio · Marta Randall · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jun 2007 Family Teeth, Part 5: American Jackal · J. T. Petty · ss Family Teeth, Part 6: St. Polycarp’s Home for Happy Wanderers · Sarah Langan · ss An Accounting · Brian Evenson · ss ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, ed. Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan, Omnidawn Publishing 2006 Catskin · Kelly Link · nv McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books 2003

Lightspeed [#32, January 2013] (online) (Full Text) The Fear Gun · Judith Berman · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction Jul 2004 Impulse · Steven Gould · ex Tor 2013 Artist Showcase: Alexandra Knickel · Anon. · iv Interview: Cory Doctorow · Anon. · iv Interview: Lemony Snicket · Anon. · iv The Sounds of Old Earth · Matthew Kressel · ss Lifeline · Jonathan Olfert · ss Addison Howell and the Clockroach [Thackery T. Lambshead] · Cherie Priest · ss The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Harper Voyager US 2011 Child Empress of Mars · Theodora Goss · ss Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, ed. Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak, Interstitial Arts Foundation 2009 With Tales in Their Teeth, from the Mountain They Came · A. C. Wise · ss Purity Test · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss The Cambist and Lord Iron · Daniel Abraham · nv Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, ed. John Klima, Bantam Spectra 2007 Daltharee · Jeffrey Ford · ss The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow, Del Rey 2008

Lightspeed [#33, February 2013] (online) (Full Text) The Happiest Dead Boy in the World [Otherland] · Tad Williams · na Legends II, ed. Robert Silverberg, Voyager 2003 The Best of All Possible Worlds · Karen Lord · ex Del Rey 2013 Artist Showcase: Yannick De Smet · Anon. · iv Interview: Lois McMaster Bujold · Anon. · iv Interview: Steven Erikson · Anon. · iv The Infill Trait · C. C. Finlay · ss Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris [Harry and Marlowe] · Carrie Vaughn · ss Eight Episodes · Robert Reed · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction Jun 2006 Interview: On Any Given Day · Maureen F. McHugh · ss Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 2001 Abyssus Abyssum Invocat · Genevieve Valentine · ss The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest · M. Bennardo · ss Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix · Marly Youmans · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #20 2007 Exogamy · John Crowley · ss Omni Best Science Fiction Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni Books 1993

Lightspeed [#34, March 2013] (Full Text) Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince · Jake Kerr · ss Let’s Take This Viral · Rich Larson · ss Three Days of Rain · Holly Phillips · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction Jun 2007 The Sense of the Circle · Angélica Gorodischer; translated by Amalia Gladhart · ss Trafalgar, Small Beer Press 2013 The Bolt Tightener · Sarena Ulibarri · ss The Dream Detective · Lisa Tuttle · ss Ash Minette · Felicity Savage · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1994 Lily Red · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Jul 1988 Things Undone · John Barnes · na Jim Baen’s Universe Dec 2009; ebook-exclusive

Lightspeed [#35, April 2013] (cover by Armand Baltazar) (Full Text) Deus Ex Arca · Desirina Boskovich · ss Deep Blood Kettle · Hugh Howey · ss A Love Supreme · Kathleen Ann Goonan · ss Discover Oct 2012 Schwartz Between the Galaxies · Robert Silverberg · nv Stellar #1, ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine 1974 The Visited · Anaea Lay · ss A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain · Karin Tidbeck · ss Dinner in Audoghast · Bruce Sterling · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1985 Smoke City · Christopher Barzak · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr/May 2011 Bellony · Nina Allan · na Blind Swimmer, ed. David Rix, Eibonvale Press 2010; ebook-exclusive The Red: First Light [The Red] · Linda Nagata · ex Mythic Island Press 2013; ebook-exclusive

Lightspeed [#36, May 2013] ed. John Joseph Adams (John Joseph Adams, $3.99, ebook) (Full Text) The Traditional · Maria Dahvana Headley · ss Water Finds Its Level · M. Bennardo · ss Interview: On Any Given Day · Maureen F. McHugh · ss Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 2001 The Missing Metatarsals · Sean Williams · ss Cosmos Dec 2012/Jan ’13 Always, They Whisper · Damien Walters Grintalis · ss Leaving the Dead · Dennis Danvers · ss The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue · Holly Black · ss Full Moon City, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Darrell Schweitzer, Pocket Books 2010 The Man Who Carved Skulls · Richard Parks · ss Weird Tales Apr/May 2007 The Garden · Eleanor Arnason · na; ebook-exclusive

Lightspeed [#37, June 2013] ed. John Joseph Adams (John Joseph Adams, $3.99, ebook) (Full Text) The Huntsman · Megan Arkenberg · ss Paranormal Romance · Christopher Barzak · ss Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon · Theodora Goss · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun 2007 Game of Chance · Carrie Vaughn · ss The Ballad of Marisol Brook · Sarah Grey · ss Alive, Alive Oh · Sylvia Spruck Wrigley · ss Get a Grip · Paul Park · nv Omni Online Mar 1997 Mono No Aware · Ken Liu · ss The Future Is Japanese, ed. Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, Haikasoru 2012 The Fool’s Tale · L. Timmel Duchamp · nv Leviathan 3, ed. Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, Ministry of Whimsy Press 2002; ebook-exclusive Abaddon’s Gate [The Expanse] · James S. A. Corey · ex Orbit 2013; ebook-exclusive

Lightspeed [#38, July 2013] ed. John Joseph Adams (John Joseph Adams, $3.99, ebook) (Full Text) Division of Labor · Benjamin R. Lambert · ss This Villain You Must Create · Carlie St. George · ss Mulberry Boys · Margo Lanagan · ss Blood and Other Cravings, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2011 Cancer · Ryan North · ss The Boy and the Box · Adam-Troy Castro · ss Ushakiran · Laura Friis · ss Golden Apple · Sophia McDougall · ss Pandemonium: The Lowest Heaven, ed. Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, Jurassic London 2013 The Stars Below · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Orbit 14, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row 1974 The Wide, Carnivorous Sky · John Langan · nv By Blood We Live, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2009; ebook-exclusive Witch Wraith · Terry Brooks · ex Del Rey 2013; ebook-exclusive Interrupt · Jeff Carlson · ex 47North 2013; ebook-exclusive; expanded from the short story of the same name (Strange Horizons,January 2003).

Lightspeed [#39, August 2013] ed. John Joseph Adams (John Joseph Adams, $3.99, ebook) (Full Text) The Litigation Master and the Monkey King · Ken Liu · nv Breathless in the Deep · Cory Skerry · ss Catamounts [Gorlen] · Marc Laidlaw · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Sep 1996 Brisneyland by Night [Verity Fassbinder] · Angela Slatter · nv Sprawl, ed. Alisa Krasnostein, Twelfth Planet Press 2010 The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Face Value · Sean Williams · ss At Budokan · Alastair Reynolds · nv Shine, ed. Jetse de Vries, Solaris US 2010 End Game · Nancy Kress · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr/May 2007 The Gorgon in the Cupboard · Patricia McKillip · na To Weave a Web of Magic, ed. Anon., Berkley 2004; ebook-exclusive Blood of Tyrants · Naomi Novik · ex Del Rey 2013; ebook-exclusive Kingmaker · Christian Cantrell · ex 47North 2013; ebook-exclusive