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Lightspeed Presents... "Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring" by Brooke Bolander

Lightspeed Magazine — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:20:23 PST

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io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we'll be featuring a story from Lightspeed's current issue. This month's selection is "Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring " by Brooke Bolander. Enjoy! More »

Lightspeed Presents... "How Many Miles to Babylon?" by Megan Arkenberg

Lightspeed Magazine — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:59:49 PST

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io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we'll be featuring a story from Lightspeed's current issue. Here's our first selection, "How Many Miles to Babylon?" by Megan Arkenberg. Enjoy! More »

An art colony in Montana that's haunted by aliens

Annalee Newitz — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:41:37 PDT

Lightspeed recently republished a classic story by Carolyn Ives Gilman, "Frost Painting," about a mysterious art colony in Montana that the locals say is inhabited by aliens — or maybe humans who have become alien. It's also the tragic, wistful story of an art critic who falls in love with an artist whose greatest works are designed to disappear. More »

It's launch day for new science fiction magazine Lightspeed

Annalee Newitz — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:05:40 PDT

Indie SF publisher Prime Books is publishing a new online magazine of science fiction and essays called Lightspeed. Edited by John Joseph Adams, formerly of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed aims to "push the envelope." Now you can read it! More »

Disney throws loads of cash at Bruckheimer's space race picture, Lightspeed

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:13:56 PDT

Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney just paid a pretty penny for the new space race screenplay from Bruckheimer's usual writers. Which means we're due for a epic space film that may not be groundbreaking, but by god it will be entertaining. More »

SF Magazine Publishing Will Be All About Niches

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:00:00 PST

With so many science-fiction magazines going under, it's a relief that John Joseph Adams and Prime Books are launching Lightspeed. But it's not enough just to fill your need for SF stories: Adams says Lightspeed will find its own niche. More »

Who Would Want To Be This Superhero?

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:53:00 PDT

The people competing to be Stan Lee's newest superhero in Who Wants To Be A Superhero? must not have seen his 2006 TV movie Lightspeed. Lightspeed stars Sean Connery's son Jason as Daniel Leight, a government agent who gains the ability to run at super-speed... but the speed is killing his metabolism. (Just imagine Stan Lee creating the Flash... again!) This is the only watchable scene in the whole thing, thanks to supervillain Python's dialogue about face-eating, blow-torch leg amputation, and severed legs running in circles. Actually, we're not sure what Python is talking about, but it sounds massively creepy. More »