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    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 141 (February 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #141
    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 141 (February 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #141
    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 141 (February 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #141
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    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 141 (February 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #141

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    LIGHTSPEED is a digital 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. 

     

    Welcome to issue 141 of LIGHTSPEED! Science fiction is one of the literature's most fun sandboxes. It's a place to write about new versions of the world, and new versions of our selves. In Isabel J. Kim's new short story "Plausible Realities, Improbable Dreams," you get both-in one multiverse-braided array of realities. There's romance and physics and coffee, and if that doesn't reel you in, well, you're heartless. For those of you with hearts, our other original SF short is going to tug at yours. In "NeuNet," Sharang Biswas gives us the story of what caring for our elders might look like in the future, and it's just as hard as it is today. To lighten things up, we have a fun flash piece ("Bad Code") from Stephen Graham Jones. Plus, we have an SF reprint by Karin Lowachee ("Lyceum"). Speculative fiction of all forms allows us to interrogate human history and social constructs in new, and sometimes painful ways. In that spirit, we have a powerful original fantasy story by Isha Karki called "When We Were Gods." You don't have to spend much time in the ghetto gulleys to see our own world reflected back to us in ways both serious and magical. On the lighter side, PH Lee's Tales of the Great Sweet Sea returns with a new fable: "The Honest Fox, or, A Truth Shared is Not a Truth Lost." We also have a pandemic-inspired flash piece ("How to Abandon Your Sourdough Starter") from Theresa DeLucci. Our fantasy reprint is by Anjali Sachdeva ("Not Creator, Nor Destroyer"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdamant Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2022
    ISBN9798201399658
    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 141 (February 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #141
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    John Joseph Adams

    John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).

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