FUTURES FANTASIES is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy culled from the pages of the digital short fiction magazine LIGHTSPEED In its pages you will find science fiction from nearfuture sociological soft SF to farfuture starspanning hard SFand fantasy from epic fantasy swordandsorcery and contemporary urban tales to magical realism sciencefantasy and folktalesLaunched in 2010 LIGHTSPEED is a twotime winner of the Hugo Award and stories from the magazine have been nominated for major genre awards dozens of times including the Hugo Award the Nebula Award the World Fantasy Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award LIGHTSPEED has published short fiction from a wide variety of authorsfrom the bestsellers and awardwinners you already know to the best new voices you havent heard of yetThe stories in FUTURES FANTASIES run the gamut from mythic lyrical epic fantasy A Love Story Written on Water by Ashok K Banker to farfuture space opera A Bond as Deep as Starlit Seas by Sarah Grey from roughandtumble cyberpunk dystopia And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander to historical tragic fantasy The Litigation Master and the Monkey King by Ken Liu from postmodern portal fantasy Not by Wardrobe Tornado or Looking Glass by Jeremiah Tolbert to counterfactual hard science fiction The Old Equations by Jake KerrDive in and discover the wonders within