Lightspeed is an online 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.

We have original fantasy by Ken Liu ("The Litigation Master and the Monkey King") and Cory Skerry ("Breathless in the Deep"), along with fantasy reprints by Marc Laidlaw ("Catamounts") and Angela Slatter ("Brisneyland by Night").

Plus, we have original science fiction by Yoon Ha Lee ("The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars") and Sean Williams ("Face Value") and SF reprints by Alastair Reynolds ("At Budokan") and Nancy Kress ("End Game").

All that, and of course, we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with Alaya Dawn Johnson and bestselling YA author Rick Yancey.

For our ebook readers, we also have the novella "The Gorgon in the Cupboard" by Patricia McKillip and excerpts from BLOOD OF TYRANTS, the penultimate volume in the acclaimed Temeraire series by bestselling author Naomi Novik and KINGMAKER by Christian Cantrell.