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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Ghost in the Tank" by M.R. Robinson www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ghos...
The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you ...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Last Season of Your Life"
by Christopher Barzak www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Test of Time" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Stars Look Away From This Vessel" by dave ring www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Star Where We Meet" by Sam W. Pisciotta www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion" by Alex Irvine www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord" by Ada Hoffmann www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ten-...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Memeostasis" by Benjamin Rosenbaum www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/meme...
This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Best of Intentions" by Mari Ness www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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I'm pleased to announce the 2026 table of contents of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (published by @marinerbooks.bsky.social), as selected by guest editor @olivieblake.bsky.social and me.
LitHub reveal: lithub.com/here-are-the...
TOC: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
When you look out from the garage doors of the corrugated steel warehouse where the Fort Springwell Community College soccer team made their heroic stand against the forces of darkness, the view at fi...
“They farm starlight.” “Bullshit.” “Okay, they’re going to farm starlight. For now they’re running fusion rigs. But that’s not their long-term plan.” “No one in the sunforsaken Oort has a long-term...
She assures them, again and again, that she acted under the best—the very best—of intentions. Oh, yes, she can be a bit dramatic at times—she won’t deny that. And she was hurt—very hurt—by that mess w...
For decades, Mariner Books has stewarded The The Best American Series®, a literary institution that began in 1915 with Best American Short Stories, to your bookshelves. But just in case you’re stum…
On a wooded hillside outside Pittsburgh, where the rivers braid together and the bridges flash yellow in the sun, there stands an old private school no one ever remembers enrolling in. Ivy grips its c...
1. I’m sorry, my lord. 2. I miss the sound of your voice, deep enough to shake the mountain fortress’s stones. I miss feeling it rumble in the soles of my feet. I miss the glow of your eyes while you...
The most surprising thing about my journey (well, the first most surprising thing) is that the dream I experienced while traveling lasted a thousand years, a single dream stretching all the way to the...
Draw a rectangular shape. Put a cylinder around it. Add a few small rectangles to any lines, such that they straddle them. At least one on the rectangle, and another on the cylinder. These are airlock...
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