Lightspeed Magazine 71 - Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 71 (April 2016)

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. This month, we have original science fiction by Carrie Vaughn ("Origin Story") and Matthew Bailey ("The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel"), along with SF reprints by Patricia Strand ("Cause for a Haunting") and Peter Watts ("Collateral"). Plus, we have original fantasy by Nghi Vo ("Dragon Brides") and Rudy Rucker ("The Knobby Giraffe"), and fantasy reprints by Theodora Goss ("Lily, With Clouds") and Ken Scholes ("Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella "Incident on a Small Colony," by Kristine Smith, and an excerpt from Thomas Olde Heuvelt's new novel, HEX.