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Lightspeed [#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 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 [#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 Five Upcoming Plagues (We’re Doomed) · Genevieve Valentine · ar Linguistic Expectations · Lawrence M. Schoen · ar

Lightspeed [#8, January 2011] (online) (Full Text) Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow · Corey Mariani · ss Cucumber Gravy · Susan Palwick · ss Sci Fiction Jan 24 2001 Black Fire · Tanith Lee · ss The Elephants of Poznan · Orson Scott Card · nv Galaxy Online Jan 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 Five Animals That Will Take Over the World After We Eradicate Ourselves · Jeremiah Tolbert · ar

Lightspeed [#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 Jun 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 [#10, March 2011] (online) (Full Text) Saying the Names · Maggie Clark · ss Gossamer [Xeelee] · Stephen Baxter · ss Science Fiction Age Nov 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 Retro Robots on the Battlefield · Daniel H. Wilson · ar Immortal Jellyfish and Transhuman You · Ekaterina Sedia · ar

Lightspeed [#11, April 2011] (online) (Full Text) All That Touches the Air · An Owomoyela · ss Maneki Neko · Bruce Sterling · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and 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 Nov/Dec 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

Lightspeed [#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 Jun 23 2009 Feature Interview: Jill Tarter · Genevieve Valentine · iv 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 [#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 Feb 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

Lightspeed [#14, July 2011] (online) (Full Text) The Cold Equations · Tom Godwin · nv Astounding Aug 1954 The Old Equations · Jake Kerr · ss Sweet Sixteen · Kat Howard · ss Face Value · Karen Joy Fowler · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov 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

Lightspeed [#15, August 2011] (online) (Full Text) Defenders · Will McIntosh · ss Just Another Perfect Day · John Varley · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine Jun 1989 The Nearest Thing · Genevieve Valentine · ss 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

Lightspeed [#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 Fll 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 Immortals That Show Us That Death Is the Best Option · Shaenon Garrity · ar

Lightspeed [#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

Lightspeed [#18, November 2011] (online) (Full Text) How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars (Marsmen Trad.) · Lisa Nohealani Morton · ss Kingdom of the Blind · Maureen McHugh · na Plugged In, ed. Anon., Aqueduct Press 2008 Houses · Mark Pantoja · ss Snow · John Crowley · nv Omni Nov 1985 Planetary Alchemy · Alan Smale · ar Feature Interview: China Miéville · John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley · iv Back to the Future · Carol Ann Moletti · ar

Lightspeed [#19, December 2011] (online) (Full Text) The Sighted Watchmaker · Vylar Kaftan · ss After the Days of Dead-Eye ’Dee · Pat Cadigan · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1985 The Parting Glass · Andrew Penn Romine · ss The Hammer of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Time Sep 28 1992 Science (and Swindlers) Can Read Your Mind [Richard Dawkins] · Jeff Lester · iv Cyborg vs. Cyborg · Nigel Wilson · ar Armageddon Rock · Alan Smale · ar

Lightspeed [#20, January 2012] (online) (Full Text) How Many Miles to Babylon? · Megan Arkenberg · ss Gene Wars · Paul McAuley · ss Interzone Jun 1991; previously published in an abridged form as “Evan’s Progress” in New Internationalist, March 1991. Always True to Thee, in My Fashion · Nancy Kress · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction Jan 1997 The Five Elements of the Heart Mind · Ken Liu · ss On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) · Marissa Lingen · ss You Have Never Been Here · M. Rickert · ss Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2006 Blue Lace Agate · Sarah Monette · ss A State of Variance · Aimee Bender · ss Weyr Search [Pern] · Anne McCaffrey · na Analog Oct 1967; (Ebook-Exclusive) Interview: R. A. MacAvoy [R.A. MacAvoy] · Anon. · iv Interview: Neal Stephenson · Anon. · iv Artist Showcase: Alexey Zaryuta · Anon. · iv Anne McCaffrey: An Appreciation · Todd McCaffrey · ar [Anne McCaffrey]; (Ebook-Exclusive)

Lightspeed [#21, February 2012] (online) (Full Text) Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring · Brooke Bolander · ss The Mermaid and the Mortal Thing · Chris Willrich · ss The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring · Genevieve Valentine · ss Not Our Brother · Robert Silverberg · nv Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine Jul 1982 War 3.01 · Keith Brooke · ss Dark Sanctuary · Gregory Benford · ss Omni May 1979 Craters · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Future Weapons of War, ed. Joe Haldeman & Martin H. Greenberg, Baen 2007 Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil [Harry and Marlowe] · Carrie Vaughn · ss Hands Up! Who Wants to Die? · Lucius Shepard · na Night Visions 11, ed. Bill Sheehan, Subterranean Press 2004 Artist Gallery: David Wyatt · J. T. Glover · iv Interview: Daniel H. Wilson · Anon. · iv Interview: Chuck Palahniuk · Anon. · iv

Lightspeed [#22, March 2012] (online) (Full Text) The Day They Came · Kali Wallace · ss Test · Steven Utley · ss My She · Mary Rosenblum · ss Federations, ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books 2009 Electric Rains · Kathleen Ann Goonan · ss Eclipse One, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2007 Alarms · S. L. Gilbow · ss Beauty · David Barr Kirtley · ss Halfway People · Karen Joy Fowler · ss My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, ed. Kate Bernheimer & Carmen Giménez Smith, Penguin US 2010 The Legend of XI Cygnus · Gene Wolfe · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct/Nov 1992 Cleopatra Brimstone · Elizabeth Hand · na Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc 2001 The Games · Ted Kosmatka · ex Del Rey 2012 Artist Gallery: Ed Basa · J. T. Glover · iv Interview: R. A. Salvatore [R.A. Salvatore] · Anon. · iv Interview: Ian McDonald · Anon. · iv

Lightspeed [#23, April 2012] (online) (Full Text) The Political Officer · C. C. Finlay · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Apr 2002 Black Heart · Holly Black · ex Margaret McElderry Books 2012 After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall · Nancy Kress · ex Tachyon Publications 2012 Artist Showcase: Dylan Pierpont · Anon. · iv Interview: William Gibson · Anon. · iv Interview: Robin Hobb · Anon. · iv Forget You · Marc Laidlaw · ss The Sympathy · Eric Gregory · ss The Steam Dancer (1896) · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, ed. William Schafer, Subterranean Press 2008 Domovoi · M. K. Hobson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Apr 2005 Ruminations in an Alien Tongue · Vandana Singh · ss Mother Ship · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Our Town · Kim Stanley Robinson · ss Omni Nov 1986 Nomad · Karin Lowachee · nv

Lightspeed [#24, May 2012] (online) (Full Text) The Cosmology of the Wider World [Part 1 of 2] · Jeffrey Ford · na PS Publishing 2005 The Drowned Cities · Paolo Bacigalupi · ex Little, Brown 2012 2312 · Kim Stanley Robinson · ex Orbit 2012 Artist Showcase: Mikhail Rakhmatullin · Anon. · iv Interview: Michael Chabon · Anon. · iv Interview: Vernor Vinge · Anon. · iv The Children of Hamelin · Dale Bailey · ss Mother of All Russiya · Melanie Rawn · ss A Hole to China · Catherynne M. Valente · ss The Ruby Incomparable [Lord Ermenwyr] · Kage Baker · ss Wizards, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Berkley 2007 Nightside on Callisto [The Red] · Linda Nagata · ss The Cross-Time Accountants Fail to Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does the Twist · C. C. Finlay · ss Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese · Nicola Griffith · ss Interzone Jun 1991 Different Kinds of Darkness [Blit] · David Langford · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan 2000