
We do not accept simultaneous submissions or multiple submissions.

No subject should be considered off-limits, and we encourage writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope. All types of science fiction and fantasy are welcome. Guidelines: Lightspeed is seeking original science fiction and fantasy stories. Instructions: All fiction must be submitted through our Moksha online submission portal. When we know when we're opening, we'll make that information available on this page and spread it widely. NOTE: If Lightspeed is currently closed to submissions, please do not query asking when we'll be opening again. Please read everything on this page and read the magazine before submitting. We also have a pair of excerpts this month: one from Bryan Camp's new novel GATHER THE FORTUNES, and one from Peter Cawdron's book REENTRY.Instructions for submitting to Lightspeed follow. Our ebook readers will enjoy an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella "Dust to Dust," by Tochi Onyebuchi. We'll also have an interview with debut novelist-and frequent LIGHTSPEED contributor-Cadwell Turnbull.

Our fantasy reprints are from the legendary Karen Joy Fowler ("The Last Worders") and Ellen Kushner ("When Two Swordsmen Meet").Īll that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. Isabel Cañas knits fantasy and romance in "The Weight of a Thousand Needles," and Caspian Gray's "Unpublished Gay Cancer Survivor Memoir" adds magic to an unpromising millenial's life.

We also have SF reprints by Ken Liu ("An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition") and Yoon Ha Lee ("Warhosts"). Anderson creates a post-apocalyptic world where knowledge is precious, but so is your hair and skin.

This month Deji Bryce Olukotun serves up a complicated story of morality, justice and interstellar cannibalism in "Between the Dark and the Dark." In her new SF tale "The Harvest of a Half-Known Life", G.V. 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. LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine.
