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. Funded as a stretch goal of LIGHTSPEED's Women Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, this month we're presenting a special one-off issue of our otherwise discontinued sister-magazine, FANTASY, called Women Destroy Fantasy!: an all-fantasy extravaganza entirely written-and edited!-by women. Here's what we've got lined up for you in this special issue: Original fantasy-edited by long-time FANTASY editor Cat Rambo-by Kate Hall, H.E. Roulo, T. Kingfisher, and Julia August. Reprints-selected by legendary editor Terri Windling-by Delia Sherman, Emma Bull, Carol Emshwiller, and Nalo Hopkinson. Nonfiction articles-edited by LIGHTSPEED managing editor Wendy N. Wagner-by Kameron Hurley, Galen Dara, Sandra Wickham, Shanna Germain, Sofia Samatar, Kat Howard, and Wendy N. Wagner. Plus an original cover illustration by Elizabeth Leggett.

Featuring A Southern Evening, an all new novelette by Jonathan Janz! We talk to him about being a dad, writing serials and flirting with other genres. Kevin Lucia's Horror 101, The Weird, The Cosmic Weird. What is it about the unknown that draws human kind in? What happens when secrets are revealed that the human mind cannot comprehend? Fiction from: Julia August Kate Dollarhyde Emily Vakos