num_pages: 533
description: 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. Even in science fiction supposedly the genre of limitless possibility where everyone is invited to the adventure heterosexual heteroromantic and cisgendered are considered the default to the extent that everything else is deviation and must be eyed with suspicion. LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and queer people no matter how they identify [Gay lesbian bisexual demisexual asexual pansexual intersex transgender genderfluid genderqueer--anyone who fits within the QUILTBAG] are a big part of that. They always have been. They're just sometimes harder to see. So in the interests of visibility and breaking stuff Queers Destroy Science Fiction! will show you just how wide the spectrum of sexuality and gender identity can really be. This special all-queer issue features original science fiction short stories from John Chu Kate M. Galey Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Chaz Brenchley Felicia Davin Rose Lemberg Jessica Yang K.M. Szpara Amal El-Mohtar Tim Susman and Susan Jane Bigelow. Plus we have original flash fiction from E. Saxey Charles Payseur Claudine Griggs Stephen Cox Eliza Gauger Erica L. Satifka Gabrielle Friesen Gabby Reed Shannon Peavey Sarah Pinsker Bogi Takcs and JY Yang and reprints by RJ Edwards AMJ Hudson Raven Kaldera Rand B. Lee and Geoff Ryman. All that and we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights along with our latest book review column and an assortment of nonfiction features plus more than twenty personal essays from writers about their experiences being queer reading and writing science fiction.
language: English
title: Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 61, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction!
publisher: John Joseph Adams