Welcome to issue 173 of Lightspeed Magazine!
We’re starting off the beautiful month of October with a brand-new climate fiction short from Ai Jiang: “Ashes Like Tea Leaves, Lava Like Honey.” Russell Nichols explores the technological future of agriculture in his mystery-SF short “Autonomy of a Murder.” If you love robots, do not miss “The Life You’ve Given Me, Rusty,” a new flash piece from P.A. Cornell. Our second piece of SF flash, “Hot Hearts” by Lyndsie Manusos, explores the emotional side of terraforming.
Kenneth Schneyer returns to our pages with a dark fantasy short, “Winding Sheets,” which explores a mortician’s transformative experience. Philip Gelatt & JT Petty team up to write about a future corporation marketing all things mythological in their darkly hilarious tale “Sully the God.” Our flash includes “Zekelo’s Barterhouse & Emporium” by Patrick Hurley (as magical as its title promises) and the story of a very unusual prosthetics project in Ashlee Lhamon’s “Caesura.”
Our book review team brings you the latest recommendations and the author spotlight teams have sat down with our writers, so don’t miss our nonfiction.
It’s another issue cram-packed with delicious speculative fiction!
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