Table of Contents: Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015 (Queers Destroy Science Fiction!)

Posted on June 2, 2015 by John DeNardo in Books, Free Fiction, Web Sites // 0 Comments

Lightspeed Magazine sent along the table of contents for their next issue, The Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special…

FROM THE EDITORS

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION edited by Seanan McGuire

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

EXCERPT Presented by Open Road Media

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS edited by Sandra Odell

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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