Lightspeed Magazine
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A Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction & fantasy magazine edited by @johnjosephadams.com.
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WOW, what a first day! In our first 24 hours, nearly 150 backers pledged more than $11K, putting us 22% of the way toward our goal. Several of our limited signed books and collectibles are already gone. If you haven't checked it out yet: bit.ly/LS-NM-26
September 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
WOW, what a first day! In our first 24 hours, nearly 150 backers pledged more than $11K, putting us 22% of the way toward our goal. Several of our limited signed books and collectibles are already gone. If you haven't checked it out yet: bit.ly/LS-NM-26
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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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September 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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For other time zones—The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare collectibles, t-shirts, mugs & other fun stuff. Thanks in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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September 15, 2026 at 11:38 PM
For other time zones—The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare collectibles, t-shirts, mugs & other fun stuff. Thanks in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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September 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Long Goodbyes" by Anya Ow www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/long...
Long Goodbyes - Lightspeed Magazine
Sui grunted as she straightened her back, digging her shoulder up into Taxue’s belly. The Zheng’s hind legs dragged awkwardly on the sand, trembling as the paws knuckled, the sudden weight on Sui push...
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September 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Long Goodbyes" by Anya Ow www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/long...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Chrysalis of Moth One" by V.M. Ayala www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Chrysalis of Moth One - Lightspeed Magazine
They didn’t want either of us to live this long. Sucks for them—we’re good at living in spite. We’re good at surviving, at fighting, at never stopping. Today is the last day we exist in spite of Comma...
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September 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Chrysalis of Moth One" by V.M. Ayala www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-gu...
A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces - Lightspeed Magazine
If every effort to bring down your child’s fever is unsuccessful and the doctors cannot diagnose anything wrong with her, then you should seek other means to alleviate her health. Before you help her ...
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September 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-gu...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Dreamweavers" by Alexander Weinstein www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/drea...
Dreamweavers - Lightspeed Magazine
In The Before Days, Tim was a fellow procurer of dreams. He made a good living frequenting rooftop parties amid aging tech bros in fur-clad vests where mangosteen juices were mixed and silent discos r...
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September 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Dreamweavers" by Alexander Weinstein www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/drea...
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This high praise from the AI search summary is impressive when you consider how little Ladd has to work with. His repair shop runs mostly on salvage, is in the post-apocalypse, and entirely fictional. He still gets the job done!
![AI Slop Search Summary: "Ladd's Robot Repair has received positive feedback for it's quick and efficient service, with customers praising professionalism and communication throughout the repair process. Many clients recommend this service for its reliability and quality of work. [unrelated source links]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtgwkzplhfkf2hurvodubkpk/bafkreiegxat3yvis6fnu6jtbibez3i5nqg6s7vx354xd2enzkhsg7amuoa)
August 28, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This high praise from the AI search summary is impressive when you consider how little Ladd has to work with. His repair shop runs mostly on salvage, is in the post-apocalypse, and entirely fictional. He still gets the job done!
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Goddess of Not Enough" by Susan Palwick @spalwick.bsky.social
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The Goddess of Not Enough - Lightspeed Magazine
You’re eighteen. Your fairy godmother just fired you, because after three balls, the prince has grown bored with you. Tonight you stepped on his foot during a gavotte. “If you’d been cleverer,” the fa...
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August 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Goddess of Not Enough" by Susan Palwick @spalwick.bsky.social
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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Ladd’s Robot Repair" by David Anaxagoras @davidanaxagoras.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ladd...
Ladd’s Robot Repair - Lightspeed Magazine
I wasn’t even two blocks into the Tumbledown when the walker’s nav crystal started fuzzing out. She veered left like a scavver drunk on coolant, and I knew I was in trouble. I tried sweet-talking her ...
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August 27, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Ladd’s Robot Repair" by David Anaxagoras @davidanaxagoras.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ladd...
Next up, we'll have Olivie Blake @olivieblake.bsky.social, author of THE ATLAS SIX et seq., 2025 releases GIFTED & TALENTED and GIRL DINNER, as well as the collection JANUARIES, and she also guest edited BASFF 2026.
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August 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Next up, we'll have Olivie Blake @olivieblake.bsky.social, author of THE ATLAS SIX et seq., 2025 releases GIFTED & TALENTED and GIRL DINNER, as well as the collection JANUARIES, and she also guest edited BASFF 2026.
🔔 Click to be notified when we launch!
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Dang, he pulled just about the best gif for horror celebration, didn't he? But he's right! Submissions are in fact OPEN. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Hey all you spooky writers out there: JJA is back in the saddle as editor of Nightmare and he needs inventory! Nightmare is NOW OPEN to submissions from Aug. 24 to Aug. 31 (11:59pm CT)!
August 24, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Dang, he pulled just about the best gif for horror celebration, didn't he? But he's right! Submissions are in fact OPEN. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
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Hits the nail on the head - great, hilarious short!
August 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Hits the nail on the head - great, hilarious short!
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Submissions Portal: adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Both with and without mention of fingers.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Both with and without mention of fingers.
Moksha
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August 21, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Both with and without mention of fingers.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Both with and without mention of fingers.
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Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.
August 21, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.
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This week on NIGHTMARE: "The H Word: The Revolution Will Be Horrorized" by Kurt Fawver www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The H Word: The Revolution Will Be Horrorized - Nightmare Magazine
We live in politically combustible times, when social media posts ignite wars and half of the Western world’s populace seems determined to usher in an apocalypse if only to spite their perceived enemi...
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August 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This week on NIGHTMARE: "The H Word: The Revolution Will Be Horrorized" by Kurt Fawver www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
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This week on NIGHTMARE: "Room 602 at the Hotel In-Between" by Georgina Kamsika www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/room...
Room 602 at the Hotel In-Between - Nightmare Magazine
There is a place that doesn’t exist. Or rather, the hotel exists only in the moments where existence itself hesitates: between one time zone and the next, between the breath then the decision, between...
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August 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This week on NIGHTMARE: "Room 602 at the Hotel In-Between" by Georgina Kamsika www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/room...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Of All Who Dream" by Adelehin Ijasan www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/of-a...
Of All Who Dream - Lightspeed Magazine
“God” is not the word I’d use. But it is the only one that suffices. There are all kinds of gods: the old and the new; the useful, the useless; the capricious and the dependable; the wrathful and the ...
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August 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Of All Who Dream" by Adelehin Ijasan www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/of-a...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union??" by Joel W. D. Buxton www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/what...
What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union?? - Lightspeed Magazine
“What do you mean the nanobots formed a union??” I asked the lawyer, biting my thumbnail. It’s an old habit, kept up well after I got the “Pro Nano Blitz Package,” as the ad called it. A muscular man...
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August 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union??" by Joel W. D. Buxton www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/what...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Fragments of the Whole" by Brooke Bolander (@bbolander.bsky.social)
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Fragments of the Whole - Lightspeed Magazine
Lise’s personas have no warning when the XexlCo Construct appears at the gate of her memory garden, smiling cheerfully at each of her personas in turn like a neighborhood milkman making his daily roun...
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August 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Fragments of the Whole" by Brooke Bolander (@bbolander.bsky.social)
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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Age of Cancer" by Vajra Chandrasekera www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
August 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Age of Cancer" by Vajra Chandrasekera www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
Our Kickstarter launches Sept. 15, and we recruited a killer lineup of authors to write new stories for us.
The first to agree was HUGH HOWEY, author of WOOL, SHIFT, & DUST, the basis of the Apple+ series SILO.
🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...
The first to agree was HUGH HOWEY, author of WOOL, SHIFT, & DUST, the basis of the Apple+ series SILO.
🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...
Coming soon: LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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August 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Our Kickstarter launches Sept. 15, and we recruited a killer lineup of authors to write new stories for us.
The first to agree was HUGH HOWEY, author of WOOL, SHIFT, & DUST, the basis of the Apple+ series SILO.
🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...
The first to agree was HUGH HOWEY, author of WOOL, SHIFT, & DUST, the basis of the Apple+ series SILO.
🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Infinite Wishes" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/infi...
Infinite Wishes - Lightspeed Magazine
Rachel sat at the edge of the sparkling pond in the secluded glen that had taken her five years to find. The air smelled of roses and lavender and pine. Tiny white sparks, like fireflies, floated upwa...
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August 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Infinite Wishes" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/infi...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Legs" by A.M. Maris www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/legs/
Legs - Lightspeed Magazine
He called her Legs. “Legs for days,” he’d say, his voice thick with wonder. When he spoke to her, she was filled with a warm, heady feeling that made her purr and rub against him. She had to be carefu...
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August 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Legs" by A.M. Maris www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/legs/