Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015)

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 SFand 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 Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, this month we're presenting a special one-off issue of our otherwise discontinued sister-magazine, FANTASY, called Queers Destroy Fantasy!: an all-fantasy extravaganza entirely writtenand edited!by queer creators.

Here's what we've got lined up for you in this special issue:

Original fantasyedited by Christopher Barzakby Catherynne M. Valente, Kai Ashante Wilson, Carlea Holl-Jensen, and Richard Bowes.

Reprintsselected by Liz Gorinskyby Caitlin R. Kiernan, Austin Bunn, Shweta Narayan, and Nicola Griffith.

Nonfiction articlesedited by Matthew Cheneyby merritt kopas, Matthew Cheney, Keguro Macharia, Ekaterina Sedia, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Ellen Kushner. Plus an original cover illustration by Priscilla Kim and original interior illustrations by Goñi Montes, Odera Igbokwe, Sam Schechter, Elizabeth Leggett, and Vlada Monakhova.

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