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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73 (June 2016, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fic
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 73 r Destroy Science Fic - June 2016, People of Colou Author:Nalo Hopkinson 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. — Our 2016 special issue is ca... more »lled People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, and we?ve brought together a team of terrific creators and editors of color, led by Guest Editors Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim. We have ten pieces of original science fiction by exciting SF authors: Karin Lowachee (?A Good Home?), Steven Barnes (?Fifty Shades of Grays?), Isha Karki (?Firebird?), Lisa Allen-Agostini (?Depot 256?), Brian K. Hudson (?Digital Medicine?), Sofia Samatar (?The Red Thread?), Nick T. Chan (?Salto Mortal?), Dayo Ntwari (?Omoshango?), Terence Taylor (?Wilson?s Singularity?), and Gabriela Santiago (?As Long As It Takes to Make the World?).
We also have a special flash fiction section curated by the talented Berit Ellingsen. We have flash from S.B. Divya (?Binaries?), Fabio Fernandes (?Other Metamorphoses?), Teresa Naval (?An Offertory to Our Drowned Gods?), Nin Harris (?Morning Cravings?), Jennifer Marie Brissett (?Breathe Deep, Breathe Free?), T.S. Bazelli (?The Peacemaker?), Caroline M. Yoachim (?Chocolate Milkshake Number 314?), Naru Dames Sundar (?A Handful Of Dal?), Kevin Jared Hosein (?Hiranyagarbha?), and JY Yang (?Four And Twenty Blackbirds?).
Our reprint editor, Nisi Shawl, has selected four short stories and a novella, including works by Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany.
Our nonfiction editor, Grace L. Dillon, has brought us some incredible essays and articles, including a feature interview with Daniel H. Wilson, and a book review column featuring new work by POC authors.
And as a special bonus: Sunil Patel has collected the more than two dozen essays on life as a POC reader and creator of science fiction that originally ran in our People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign.« less