Lightspeed: Year One

Edited by John Joseph Adams.

Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between. Each month, Lightspeed features a mix of originals and reprints, from a variety of authors - from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven't heard of yet. Now, in Lightspeed: Year One, you will find all of the fiction published in Lightspeed's first year, from new stories such as Nebula Award finalists, Vylar Kaftan's "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" and "Arvies" by Adam-Troy Castro, and Carrie Vaughn's Hugo Award-nominee "Amaryllis," to classic reprints by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and more.

Contents:

• Introduction by John Joseph Adams
• I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno by Vylar Kaftan
• The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt
• Cats in Victory by David Barr Kirtley
• Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughn
• No Time Like the Present by Carol Emshwiller
• Manumission by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball by Genevieve Valentine
• ...For a Single Yesterday by George R. R. Martin
• How to Become a Mars Overlord by Catherynne M. Valente
• Patient Zero by Tananarive Due
• Arvies by Adam-Troy Castro
• More Than the Sum of His Parts by Joe Haldeman
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Long Chase by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Amid the Words of War by Cat Rambo
• Travelers by Robert Silverberg
• Hindsight by Sarah Langan
• Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Taste of Starlight by John R. Fultz
• Beachworld by Stephen King
• Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu
• Faces in Revolving Souls by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters by Alice Sola Kim
• EJ-ES by Nancy Kress
• In-Fall by Ted Kosmatka
• The Observer by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Jenny's Sick by David Tallerman
• The Silence of the Asonu by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow by Corey Mariani
• Cucumber Gravy by Susan Palwick
• Black Fire by Tanith Lee
• The Elephants of Poznan by Orson Scott Card
• Long Enough and Just So Long by Cat Rambo
• The Passenger by Julie E. Czerneda
• Simulacrum by Ken Liu
• Breakaway, Backdown by James Patrick Kelly
• Saying the Names by Maggie Clark
• Gossamer by Stephen Baxter
• Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor
• Woman Leaves Room by Robert Reed
• All That Touches the Air by An Owomoyela
• Maneki Neko by Bruce Sterling
• Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son by Tom Crosshill
• Velvet Fields by Anne McCaffrey
• The Harrowers by Eric Gregory
• Bibi from Jupiter by Tessa Mellas
• Eliot Wrote by Nancy Kress
• Scales by Alastair Reynolds