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 Brooke Bolander ( and "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead and ") and Caroline M. Yoachim ( and "Red Planet and "), along with SF reprints by John Kessel ( and "Buffalo and ") and David Barr Kirtley ( and "Veil of Ignorance and "). Plus, we have original fantasy by Maria Dahvana Headley ( and "And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea and ") and Will Kaufman ( and "Things You Can Buy for a Penny and "), and fantasy reprints by Mary Rickert ( and "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies and ") and Adam-Troy Castro ( and "Cerile and the Journeyer and "). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, a feature interview with Ann Leckie, and our review column, this month written by Sunil Patel. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint of and "In the House of Aryaman, A Lonely Signal Burns, and " by Elizabeth Bear. We're also delighted to share an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear's new novel, KAREN MEMORY, and an excerpt from GEMINI CELL, Myke Cole's latest book.