Table of Contents: Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015 (Queers Destroy Science Fiction!)
Lightspeed Magazine sent along the table of contents for their next issue, The Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special…
FROM THE EDITORS
- The Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION edited by Seanan McGuire
- “Influence Isolated, Make Peace” by John Chu
- “Emergency Repair” by Kate M. Galey
- “Trickier With Each Translation” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- “The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal” by Chaz Brenchley
- “The Tip of the Tongue” by Felicia Davin
- “How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War” by Rose Lemberg
- “Plant Children” by Jessica Yang
- “Nothing is Pixels Here” by K.M. Szpara
- “Madeleine” by Amal El-Mohtar
- “Two By Two” by Tim Susman
- “Die, Sophie, Die” by Susan Jane Bigelow
ORIGINAL FLASH FICTION edited by Sigrid Ellis
- “Melioration” by E. Saxey
- “Rubbing is Racing” by Charles Payseur
- “Helping Hand” by Claudine Griggs
- “The Lamb Chops” by Stephen Cox
- “Mama” by Eliza Gauger
- “Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind” by Erica L. Satifka
- “Deep/Dark Space” by Gabrielle Friesen
- “A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices” by Gabby Reed
- “Nothing Goes to Waste” by Shannon Peavey
- “In the Dawns Between Hours” by Sarah Pinsker
- “Increasing Police Visibility” by Bogi Takács
- “Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife” by JY Yang
REPRINT FICTION selected by Steve Berman
- “Black Holes” by RJ Edwards
- “Red Run” by AMJ Hudson
- “CyberFruit Swamp” by Raven Kaldera
- “The Sound of His Wings” by Rand B. Lee
- “O Happy Day!” by Geoff Ryman
EXCERPT Presented by Open Road Media
- Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS edited by Sandra Odell
- John Chu
- Kate M. Galey
- Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- Chaz Brenchley
- Felicia Davin
- Rose Lemberg
- Jessica Yang
- K.M. Szpara
- Amal El-Mohtar
- Tim Susman
- Susan Jane Bigelow
- RJ Edwards
- AMJ Hudson
- Raven Kaldera
- Rand B. Lee
- Geoff Ryman
NONFICTION edited by Mark Oshiro
- Artists Gallery: C. Bedford, Odera Igbokwe, Orion Zangara, Isabel Collier, Paige Braddock, Steen, Elizabeth Leggett
- Artists Spotlight: Elizabeth Leggett
- Book Reviews, June 2015: Friendship, Chosen Family, and Queer Communities by Amal El-Mohtar
- Interview: David Gerrold by Mark Oshiro
- We’ve Made It To . . . Magrathea? by Jennifer Cross
- Not Android, Not Alien, Not Accident by Cedar Rae Duke
- Diversity in a Ghetto by Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez
- Queers in a Strange Land by Amber Neko Meador
PERSONAL ESSAYS edited by Wendy N. Wagner
- Science Fiction Failed Me by Cory Skerry
- So Say We All by Emma Osborne
- 1984 in 1980 by Lee Thomas
- Speak Up, Speak Out by Sandra Odell
- How Queer Narratives Beat the False-Consensus Effect, Reminded Me that Diversity Existed, Exploited Human Psychology, Inspired Sex Positivity, And Helped Me Stop Worrying (But Not to Love the Bomb) by An Owomoyela
- Spark by Mark Oshiro
- Science Fiction Has Always Been Queer by Sigrid Ellis
- Halfway in the Pool by James L. Sutter
- All That Glitters by Jill Seidenstein
- When We’re Not There, We’re Not Here by Jerome Stueart
- A Gay Boy Gets His Genre On by Anthony Cardno
- All Your Fic Are Belong to Us by Rachel Swirsky
- Go Bisexual Space Rangers, Go! by Cecilia Tan
- Drama Kid by Cecil Baldwin
- Rewriting Our Default Settings by Elizabeth Leggett
- Confessions of a Queer Curator by Lynne M. Thomas
- Where Now Must I Go to Make a Home? by Hal Duncan
- Destruction is What Creation Needs by Sunny Moraine
- Shiva and Octavia by Sam J. Miller
- Creative Destruction by Lisa Nohealani Morton
- Here’s How It Goes by Alyssa Wong
- Acceptance by Arley Sorg
- The Books That Read Me by Everett Maroon
- The Desperate Task: Making the Invisible Visible by Christopher Barzak
- A World of Queer Imagination by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- The First Rule I Learned about Writing Queer Characters in Science Fiction by Haralambi Markov
- Queers Digging and Destroying by Michael Damian Thomas
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