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Showing posts with label Lightspeed Magazine. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Bone-Stag Walks, by K.T. Bryski

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Horror) In mid-winter, a skeletal stag comes to the village begging for food, but it eats anyone foolish enough to ...

All These Guardians of Order and Clarity, None of Them Can Abide a Free Witch, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Fantasy Adventure) Maghd of Ilmak Dale, the “White Witch,” feels that Marish’s account of their encounter and the d...

Sing in Me, Muse, by Katherine Crighton

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Generation Ship) A young woman on a generation ship sings reports back to an Earth that may not even exist anymore....

Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air, by Matthew Kressel

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Far-Future SF) Gil teaches students how to communicate with the Numens, vast, star-spanning alien intelligences ind...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Great Gerta and the Mermaid, by Mari Ness

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention (Peter Pan Pastiche) In which we learn of the female pirate, Gerta, who sailed to Neverland with C...

Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills, by Kristina Ten

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Fairy Tale Pastiche) Bab Yaga from the fairy tales turns up in modern-day San Francisco looking for help tracking d...

The Swallows of the Storm, by Ray Nayler

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Alien Mystery) Something has been drilling long, narrow holes through plants, animals, even rocks, and Dr. Nino giv...

The End of the World Measured in Values of N, by Adam-Troy Castro

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★☆☆☆ (Apocalypse) The world just came to an end N seconds ago. We discuss that for different values of N . (1,959 words...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Refuge, by Ben Peek

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[ Lightspeed ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Dark Fantasy Adventure) The story of how Aned Heast, having lost a leg and his entire army, reclaimed his honor in ...

The Postictal State of Divine Love, by Julianna Baggott

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[ Lightspeed ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Vampire) It turns out there’s a secret society of vampires all around us, and they offer immunity to viruses. (7,3...

Real Animals, by Em North

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Alien Invasion Apocalypse Horror) The aliens occupied and controlled the bodies of animals, destroying most of huma...

Single Malt Spacecraft, by Marie Vibbert

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (SF Adventure) Fresia makes money flying back and forth between Earth and a colony planet, forty years per round tri...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Destinations of Love, by Alexander Weinstein

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Allegory; The Lost Traveler's Tour Guide ) In which we read about various travel destinations and what they mea...

The Fenghuang, by Millie Ho

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Uncanny Horror) When Candice gets upset, she sometimes spontaneously combusts and then comes back to life. She need...

The Time Traveler's Advice to the Lovelorn, by Adam-Troy Castro

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Time Travel) Samael finds himself in love with a woman who doesn’t notice him, so he asks the village time-traveler...
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Melting Like Metal, by Ada Hoffmann

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Space Opera) Enga is an “angel,” a human cyborg enforcer for an AI “god.” Enga has some problems, so she’s eager to...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Witch Speaks, by Rati Mehrotra

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Horror) A woman who can see ghosts and foresee the future talks with the ghost of her long-dead lover. (2,572 word...

Glass Bottle Dancer, by Celeste Rita Baker

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★★☆ A Sweet Tale with a Caribbean Flavor (Caribbean Fantasy) Approaching 50, Mabel decides to become a glass bottle danc...
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Voice of Their Generation, by Andrew Dana Hudson

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (SF) Thicket is sure their Detective Pikachu vs. Predator story would be a big hit if they could only get the Machi...

The Least of These, by Veronica Roth

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★★☆☆ (Alien Abduction) Two women are offered the opportunity to save 50,000 human beings from Earth’s impending doom, but...