Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Ebook135 pages1 hour
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 153 (February 2023): Lightspeed Magazine, #153
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this ebook
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 153 of LIGHTSPEED! Our first full-length short SF story this month comes from Carrie Vaughn: "Learning Letters." It's the story of our world in the near future, and two very different ways of shaping our lives in a time with limited technology. Adam-Troy Castro offers a humorous alien society with an unusual structure in his new tale, "The Day the Earthman Never Showed." We also have two flash pieces: "In(con)solation" from Octavia Cade and "Guidelines for Using the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library" by Marie Brennan. Our original fantasy shorts include "Real Magic" by Sharang Biswas, a story of one small-town witch and her clientele, and "His Guns Could Not Protect Him" by Sam J. Miller-which features an unsettling reality filled with monsters. Monsters of a different variety make an appearance in a flash story ("Subject: More Monsters Will Not Make Us Safer") by Paul Crenshaw. We also have a second flash piece: "The House of Linear Change" from Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. It's another terrific month of content, coming at you at the speed of light.
Author
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).
Read more from John Joseph Adams
Futures & Fantasies Other Worlds Than These Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lightspeed: Year One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Federations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way of the Wizard Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nightmare Magazine, Issue 78 (March 2019) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelp Fund My Robot Army and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 106 (March 2019) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 112 (September 2019) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 153 (February 2023)
Titles in the series (67)
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 101 (October 2018): Lightspeed Magazine, #101 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 110 (July 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #110 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 109 (June 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #109 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 102 (November 2018): Lightspeed Magazine, #102 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 100 (September 2018): Lightspeed Magazine, #100 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 103 (December 2018): Lightspeed Magazine, #103 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104 (January 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #104 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 119 (April 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #119 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 107 (April 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #107 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 105 (February 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #105 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 115 (December 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #115 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 114 (November 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #114 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 108 (May 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #108 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 111 (August 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #111 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 113 (October 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #113 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 131 (April 2021): Lightspeed Magazine, #131 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 121 (June 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #121 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 127 (December 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #127 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 118 (March 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #118 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 122 (July 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #122 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 117 (February 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #117 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 116 (January 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #116 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 132 (May 2021): Lightspeed Magazine, #132 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 120 (May 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #120 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 124 (September 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #124 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 125 (October 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #125 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 135 (August 2021): Lightspeed Magazine, #135 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 130 (March 2021): Lightspeed Magazine, #130 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 128 (January 2021): Lightspeed Magazine, #128 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 123 (August 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #123 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related ebooks
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 157 (June 2023): Lightspeed Magazine, #157 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 152 (January 2023): Lightspeed Magazine, #152 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 119 (April 2020): Lightspeed Magazine, #119 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 142 (March 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #142 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 155 (April 2023): Lightspeed Magazine, #155 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 145 (June 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #145 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 151 (December 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #151 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 146 (July 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #146 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fantasy Magazine, Issue 87 (January 2023): Fantasy Magazine, #87 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fantasy Magazine, Issue 83 (September 2022): Fantasy Magazine, #83 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 148 (September 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #148 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 89: Clarkesworld Magazine, #89 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 161 (October 2023): Lightspeed Magazine, #161 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 136 (September 2021): Lightspeed Magazine, #136 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ways We End: Six Tales of Doom: Dark Collections, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 150 (November 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #150 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 147 (August 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #147 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dragon Business: A Medieval Con Game, with Scales! Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 183 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEmbrace the Night and Other Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Best of World SF: Volume 2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 141 (February 2022): Lightspeed Magazine, #141 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 159 (August 2023): Lightspeed Magazine, #159 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Osiris Contingency Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReplika: Sky's Mission: Replika, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClarkesworld Magazine Issue 151 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFantasy Magazine, Issue 86 (December 2022): Fantasy Magazine, #86 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Dragon in the Multiverse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105 (February 2019): Lightspeed Magazine, #105 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWho Killed Sherlock Holmes? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Science Fiction For You
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wool: Book One of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England: Secret Projects, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Authority: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rendezvous with Rama Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perelandra: (Space Trilogy, Book Two) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: Original 1818 Uncensored Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Light From Uncommon Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Am Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cryptonomicon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm And 1984 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contact Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
The Messed Up Origins™ of Corpse Bride | Folklore Explained 0% found this document useful#85 - Rosie Talbot 0% found this document useful524 - Chapters 13 - 14 - 15 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Juneteenth 0% found this document usefulLonely Outsider 0% found this document usefulBecause I Know You’ve Always Wondered 0% found this document usefulTreasure Hunt 0% found this document usefulSidik Fofana Steps Out of the Classroom 0% found this document usefulS04.04: Ravished by Amanda Quick: The difference between fossils and Fossils: Sarah and Jen love Ravished 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Team Players Total FilmArticle
Team Players
Jan 12, 2023
2 min readThe Final Frontier SFXArticle
The Final Frontier
Mar 20, 2024
12 min readVampire: The Masquerade—bloodlines PC Gamer (US Edition)Article
Vampire: The Masquerade—bloodlines
Jan 25, 2022
6 min readThe Thousand Earths SFXArticle
The Thousand Earths
Oct 5, 2022
3 min readNew Romance Imprint From Entangled Writing MagazineArticle
New Romance Imprint From Entangled
Jan 5, 2023
Romance publisher Entangled Publishing has announced the launch of Red Tower Books, a new romantic science fiction and fantasy imprint, which will, the company says, ‘champion feminist and empowered perspectives in the fantasy and science fiction spa
1 min readA Cosmology Of Monsters SFXArticle
A Cosmology Of Monsters
Jun 17, 2020
RELEASED 30 JUNE 448 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Shaun Hamill Publisher Titan Books Shaun Hamill’s debut arrives with a fierce buzz and a glowing Stephen King cover quote. That feels apt. A Cosmology Of Monsters may riff heavily on HP Lovecraft’s
1 min readReading Corner Total GirlArticle
Reading Corner
Jul 12, 2020
Could witches actually exist? Are fairy tales not tales at all but relics of a the not-too-distant past? These questions and more are on Roxy’s mind ever since she moved into the Soup Ministry’s servant quarters with her sister Gretel. The Soup Minis
1 min readThe Best in Translated Speculative Fiction of 2018 (So Far) Literary HubArticle
The Best in Translated Speculative Fiction of 2018 (So Far)
Jul 20, 2018
5 min readValheim PC GamerArticle
Valheim
Dec 8, 2022
5 min readThe Literary Dimensions of TikTok Poets & WritersArticle
The Literary Dimensions of TikTok
Aug 17, 2022
3 min readMan Of Letters And Warm Coats Esquire SingaporeArticle
Man Of Letters And Warm Coats
Nov 1, 2021
3 min readChuck Wendig Writer's DigestArticle
Chuck Wendig
Aug 7, 2023
11 min readThese Birds are Fakes Audubon MagazineArticle
These Birds are Fakes
Jun 21, 2023
3 min readUncovered Toilets Shoot Out Aerosol Plumes How It WorksArticle
Uncovered Toilets Shoot Out Aerosol Plumes
Jan 19, 2023
2 min read‘I Googled “White Guy” And There I Was’: Stock Photo Models On Seeing Their Faces In Everything From Ads To Ridiculous Memes The GuardianArticle
‘I Googled “White Guy” And There I Was’: Stock Photo Models On Seeing Their Faces In Everything From Ads To Ridiculous Memes
Apr 8, 2023
Stock images are everywhere, and you probably rarely notice them: on billboards and websites, plastered across adverts, groceries and print media. Shooting original photography takes time and money. Stock-image banks – which contain existing images t
13 min readThe World Of Writing Writing MagazineArticle
The World Of Writing
Jan 6, 2022
5 min readWhat To Pack For A Writers Retreat Poets & WritersArticle
What To Pack For A Writers Retreat
Feb 14, 2024
IT ALL begins with coffee. At home I program my coffee maker the night before so that I can stumble bleary-eyed into the kitchen the next morning and find an entire pot waiting for me. Yet for eight years working as a flight attendant and, following
3 min readTHE MAGIC of PARANORMAL ROMANCE The WriterArticle
THE MAGIC of PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Dec 31, 2022
7 min readJoe Cornish: Netflix’s Lockwood & Co Creator Talks Ghosts - And The Sequel To Attack The Block Evening StandardArticle
Joe Cornish: Netflix’s Lockwood & Co Creator Talks Ghosts - And The Sequel To Attack The Block
Jan 24, 2023
5 min readAn Artist Creates, Amid Distraction And Because Of It Time Magazine International EditionArticle
An Artist Creates, Amid Distraction And Because Of It
Apr 1, 2023
2 min readTalk to the Practitioner: Madhushree Ghosh The WriterArticle
Talk to the Practitioner: Madhushree Ghosh
Apr 30, 2022
6 min readTHE ghost FILES KARINA MACHADO New IdeaArticle
THE ghost FILES KARINA MACHADO
Apr 27, 2020
1 min readFaces The WriterArticle
Faces
Nov 13, 2021
FACES MAGAZINE, PART OF CRICKET Media, attracts readers between 9 and 14 years old with innovative and surprising stories about people, places, and traditions worldwide. Editor Elizabeth Crooker looks for lively, diverse story angles full of what she
3 min readLessons Learned The WriterArticle
Lessons Learned
Apr 29, 2023
2 min readLAURA JEAN McKAY SFXArticle
LAURA JEAN McKAY
Dec 1, 2021
WHEN THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR’S Arthur C Clarke Award, The Animals In That Country, was announced, award director Tom Hunter heralded the book as a “first contact novel, only the multiple alien species that humanity encounters have been sharing the Ea
3 min readThe Journey To A Published Artbook ImagineFXArticle
The Journey To A Published Artbook
Nov 21, 2023
6 min readWhat A Book Can Do For A Girl The AtlanticArticle
What A Book Can Do For A Girl
May 27, 2022
3 min readCape Cod Writers Center Conference Celebrates its 60th Anniversary The WriterArticle
Cape Cod Writers Center Conference Celebrates its 60th Anniversary
May 27, 2023
4 min readUnder Pressure Writing MagazineArticle
Under Pressure
Jan 5, 2023
One of the first pieces of advice I received as a young editor was that if I hadn’t made up my mind whether I liked a submission after a month, then my lack of enthusiasm was all the answer I needed. My indecision was a de-facto no, telling me that I
3 min readWow Women PsychologiesArticle
Wow Women
May 19, 2020
I was thrilled to see that you opened The Fix pages of the April issue with a paragraph about fierce mythological women. It is fabulous to see strong women celebrated in mythology, when in our culture we typically read fairy tales in which women and
1 min read
Reviews for Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 153 (February 2023)
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 153 (February 2023) - John Joseph Adams
6c book_preview_excerpt.html YMƑ+9>PS%
f\ӭn?]-7싐$9E29L5A]7`K^dEV,nŋ uMuҍi$矾xUu}nOn
W?woϽ>Q tS O><\SKNo/ى:yu~{}3'm]cuLMd,Z \ ]TZ Ӷc3ǺiQ:~yA+tk]5^rju33ZqJTK]W6~Zvldmv0CG]Ƥ3uT^E\.ƨZi6_PǍ| NwŇVV:u6cV[o]']Mkn`G Y~LZaz3cNxT8)p.i;©+=NF]WdkXufˉT_%+'uFݘ{ksSX.K|N-eknv] l3ڶmaԕ]m>%c2^ة VuQL=h
]Evo~ ɢPP<]F@MS =F'i':dK y`) k2z j㗇 ,c"W;\&S t)_h\9
1L!iq#K|q@
R7NAJ .*\6҉e܁ɘp1Q>yږLdı|)]44SF +ywt>V_c3~eL_SV|MY
)`'\8ضB
G QbߜIt*-5jb@DM%)0~}̰ a _̈́cX$KiB^UtG3uG06|lm 5QKe0aл lu- Ί Kͨ"7e
y7Ա;AጌAMI3j"p%M+`۰>ij]hL
YqEkt(9S(X}aaN 2omS : Jd.a,"@ۀTR$[U !k oQ +KXQ Hg1dMd +B EH!f'-
OCX̶C!T725<
H$l92MQܰdP'AE+G?DpXS0UWuI`I
ZC7^i+i3
F D!d@>EtA} mV CK
g`A.!#T G(M3 Rsטг &r饿 ItKvxfü'e(=]bo+e& <foɚ`(I4NgeϙEa%E @Tʸx洠bS1E_[
alԻ ,Z+
C
}Ȳ3) _$
)x!-G TËD9Nd? ԓ\^f%lR#Tׇ_^ .!oVp
(g\b\Y]p;b!@43X*\M>k/d+A33BzZ uQku+,cۘ}VbQ'\M#u /p~9.Eζ P"bdB=BnKc<8
p8)3Ar#S)y˴ g vS,H5pTiTgjhppOuStR&S ]Xx0h:!Rc 0;9%Ѿ7#Y@<^4aox hX&qjDshsH92m߄9)p&C9&+EaW2d#q@? ;N
7e&f/HPRyןr',yhBmvҼymSjTB}3}D
?k z&iy~ ߟW?{ 6 (6$O=p$3 tV@?}! !HBS[;MKP&#E:S<]wI;GLf O)G:T^ Ex2=>W%* z1^>b% K z _K$OZx$㔷gQ ŁQ^Di\nE,rl*0 d|r/hJ
<1Lr "qL
eS2*lWT!(e["`? $ct",OQ:'í}/gBhXL7 E(Z_$c8;C\.5\]ɍ<蔣fO~{w}`x>T:}# @o_܀plR y\`%kNJ5jК7乌mFw$ƵZFi|{0.ԡIVREcLH)xlAmeƷ @5$
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1