Podcasts by LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)
Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, LIGHTSPEED is a Hugo Award-winning, critically-acclaimed digital magazine. In its pages, you'll find science fiction from near-future stories and sociological SF to far-future, star-spanning SF. Plus there's fantasy from epic sword-and-sorcery and contemporary urban tales to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folk tales. Each month, LIGHTSPEED brings you a mix of original short stories and flash fiction featuring a variety of authors, from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven't heard yet. When you read LIGHTSPEED, you'll see where science fiction and fantasy have come from, where they are now, and where they're going. The LIGHTSPEED podcast, produced by Grammy Award-winning narrator and producer Stefan Rudnicki of Skyboat Media, is presented two times a month, featuring original audio fiction.
Further podcasts by John Joseph Adams and Stefan Rudnicki (Skyboat Media | Geek's Guide to the Galaxy | Nightmare Magazine)
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Gene Doucette | Schrödinger’s Catastrophe [Part 1] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Things began to go badly for the crew of the USFS Erwin around the time Dr. Marchere’s coffee mug spontaneously reassembled itself. Dr. Louis Marchere was not, at that moment, conducting some manne...
ListenNaomi Kanakia | Everquest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gopal knew before he booted up the game---a Christmas present from his dad---that his character would be some form of elf or human, because the other races were all ugly, and he didn’t play games t...
ListenJenny Rae Rappaport | Everything and Nothing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Start with a romance: a man and a woman who are wildly and irrevocably in love with each other. Or two men. Or two women. Or two people, because life is beautiful and complex. Just know that these ...
ListenCaroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Vivian sat at a café opposite Cass. Everything around her had a gritty, dingy quality. Even Cass looked run down, their face deeply tanned and distressingly wrinkled. They were old now, many decade...
ListenStephanie Malia Morris | Forty Acres and a Mule from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
My parents’ farm has shrunk, as old things tend to do. The shed, the workshop, the paddock with its doubled wire fences and chicken coop---all squat and rain-blackened, coming into focus as I step ...
ListenKaren Joy Fowler | Persephone of the Crows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Isabelle Winters once saw a fairy. For real. It was little, like a hummingbird, with a hummingbird’s frantic wings, and it was moving through the garden, shaking the rosebuds open for the bees. She...
ListenCaroline M. Yoachim | Shadow Prisons of the Mind from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the right overlays, the city was charming---apartment buildings done up like giant row houses, seamlessly blending Victorian and modern sensibilities, boutiques and cafés on tree-lined streets...
ListenAdam-Troy Castro | The Author’s Wife vs. the Giant Robot from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The year I turned five, my father got taken out by a giant robot. I was present and I took it very personally. You honestly don’t expect that kind of thing when you’re a kid, not even if you’ve see...
ListenKatherine Crighton | Sing in Me, Muse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
O Mother, dear Mnemosyne! It is I, Anisah, fifteenth of my line! Here is my song. Long have I waited for this, the end of my first shift; at last I am a daughter grown old enough to sing. I have sa...
ListenKT Bryski | The Bone-Stag Walks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Bone-Stag walks at midwinter, sharp-antlered, hard-hoofed. Deep white snow spreads under deep black sky. Cold air slices lungs; rivers stand as stone. Over cresting drifts comes the Bone-Stag, ...
ListenEden Royce | Miss Beulah’s Braiding and Life Change Salon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The chime above my shop door rings. It heralds a young woman wearing a head wrap boasting a network of silvery constellations on indigo, interspersed with the occasional yellow-gold moon. The wrap ...
ListenCaroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prison Experiment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The shopping district was crowded on a Sunday afternoon, and Vivian Watanabe was out running errands with her sixteen-year-old, Cass. Together they wove through throngs of shoppers wearing customiz...
ListenRay Nayler | The Swallows of the Storm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One of the Senators cleared her throat, turned on the microphone in front of her, and began. “Would you like to tell us when you first became aware of the phenomenon, Doctor? Perhaps that would be ...
ListenMari Ness | Great Gerta and the Mermaid from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
That notorious ship that sailed to the wretched isle known as Neverland under the leadership of one James, self-styled Jas., Cook, called the Jolly Roger, has most naturally been a subject of inten...
ListenAdam-Troy Castro | The End of the World Measured in Values of N from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen. The world ended thirty seconds ago. You greet this whisper with incredulity. After all, here you are, living and breathing. The people around you are living and breathing. You might be drin...
ListenKristina Ten | Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It doesn’t take long. She has few earthly possessions and her travel options are limited. There is a train that runs west through the Swamp Forest to the coast, but everyone knows and fears the old...
ListenEm North | Real Animals from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The bear has been stalking the taxidermy garden for ten weeks now, ever since Raffi showed up. Sometimes it disappears for a few days or a week, but it always comes back. Prowls the perimeter, look...
ListenBen Peek | Refuge from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dear Mr. Quilas: This morning, I began to read your new collection of essays, Forgotten Lives. I’ve enjoyed a number of your books previously, but this collection held a particular interest for me....
ListenMarie Vibbert | Single Malt Spacecraft from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The first time Fresia tasted scotch, it was true love. She was twenty-two. Her boyfriend had just turned twenty-one and had gotten a bottle of Glen Livet from his dad. He poured a shot for himself ...
ListenJulianna Baggott | The Postictal State of Divine Love from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
My mother used to tell me we came from the matriarchal vampiric line that had been traced farther back than Queen Elizabeth. She only told me these things after a seizure. Many people with epilepsy...
ListenAlexander Weinstein | Destinations of Love from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Your guidebook writers are---alas---very familiar with booking tickets in search of love. How many of us haven’t packed our bags for the new continent with this foolish goal in mind? We’ve stumbled...
ListenAdam-Troy Castro | The Time Traveler’s Advice to the Lovelorn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Time is best described as the thing that must crawl by before even the most unlikely events finally get around to happening. A lot of it had passed in the little village we now visit, drifting down...
ListenRati Mehrotra | The Witch Speaks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As different as earth and sky. That is what they said about us. Yet even earth and sky meet at the horizon. Shade your eyes from the sun. Look, far in the distance. Do you see that line where brown...
ListenAndrew Dana Hudson | Voice of Their Generation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On their ninth rewrite of the third act of Detective Pikachu vs. Predator, it occurred to Thicket that they might just be the voice of their generation. In a fever, they swiped together the final e...
ListenCeleste Rita Baker | Glass Bottle Dancer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When de words “glass bottle dancer” come to me as I was day-dreaming, listening to music on de radio, I thought it sounded like someting I’d like to see, didn’t tink it would change me whole life. ...
ListenVeronica Roth | The Least of These from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two women, Best and Least, woke in a bright room. Best did so as if surfacing in a pool of water, her eyes wide and observant. Least woke with a start, and immediately slammed her back against the ...
ListenP H Lee | Ann-of-Rags from 2020-12-31T11:02:27
I have heard it on the rumors that when the tale-spinner’s guild gathers in their secret places, a full half of them are sworn to never tell the truth, and the other half to never tell a lie, even ...
ListenVylar Kaftan | I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno from 2010-06-01T07:02:50
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