LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)
Adamant Press
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, features original audio short stories 6-8 times a month.
Episodes
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Mar 14, 2024 • 39min
Alex Irvine | Kopki and the Fish
Author Alex Irvine discusses 'Kopki and the Fish,' a tale set in a dry valley with limited resources. Follow Kopki on a quest for a special fish with healing powers, navigating challenges and societal judgment. Dive into themes of duty, sacrifice, and redemption as Kopki's actions lead to a dark path ahead.
Mar 7, 2024 • 10min
Will McMahon | Fragments of a Symbiotic Life
I was born normal enough, except that I was four days late, which isn’t so much, and slightly jaundiced, which isn’t unusual, and had a raccoon for an arm, which is admittedly strange. It wasn’t my whole arm---I was human to the elbow. And it wasn’t a whole raccoon. | © 2024 by Will McMahon. Narrated by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 7, 2024 • 36min
Shingai Njeri Kagunda | Let the Star Explode
The last picture that Karu has of her father alive is on the day of her graduation. She has this big smile that by the placing of her dimples makes it obvious that she is his daughter. He stands next to her holding her waist in the space between his biceps and his lower arm. And her mother who is half an inch shorter than her stands on her left side. | © 2024 by Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Narrated by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 22, 2024 • 39min
Phoebe Barton | But From Thine Eyes My Knowledge I Derive
It was a long fall in-system from the warp point, so Va Sojourner had plenty of time to observe. She found a peace in her observations that was expensive or painful to scratch out anywhere else, when she had to organize herself around the demands and expectations of everyone around her. | © 2024 by Phoebe Barton. Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 22, 2024 • 13min
KT Bryski | An Elegy for the Former Things
You’ve been driving for hours and I wish you would stop. You clutch the steering wheel so hard, your knuckles pop white, your palms slick with sweat and desperation. Sunken, glassy, your eyes flick between the fuel gauge, the endless road, and the trembling land through which we pass. | © 2024 by KT Bryski. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 15, 2024 • 43min
Wen-yi Lee | What Becomes of Curious Minds
On the third evening of every week, dozens come to Stalactite Keep to hear the storyteller teach about the place beyond Wonderland. Tonight, with only dewdrops of honeycomb light seeping through the cells of the sky, Creed told them of toys. | © 2024 by Wen-yi Lee. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 15, 2024 • 16min
Christopher Rowe | The Pearl Captain
Josea Dream was the pearl captain at the heart of the bivalve ship <i>Blue Spring</i>, which had swum the black for a thousand years. It was a mystery to Josea---it was a mystery to anyone who’d ever thought about it---why the bivalves suffered their captains’ proddings. | © 2024 by Christopher Rowe. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 8, 2024 • 54min
Everdeen Mason | Scarlett
This discussion features Everdeen Mason, a journalist and editorial director at the New York Times Games, known for her insightful critiques and storytelling. The conversation dives into the emotional struggles of identity and resilience faced by the protagonist, Scarlett. Listeners explore the delicate balance of aesthetics and functionality in AI creation, and the ethical dilemmas arising from intimacy with artificial beings. The narrative prompts reflection on personal growth amid societal expectations set against a richly imagined sci-fi backdrop.
Feb 8, 2024 • 13min
Mari Ness | Further Examination and Capture of Candle Skulls Associated with the Baba Yaga
Recent scholarship has shed considerable light on many previously puzzling or mysterious aspects of the life of the Baba Yaga---or, as some would still have it, the Baba Yagas. But one element has remained largely unstudied, and indeed, almost completely ignored. | © 2024 by Mari Ness. Narrated by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 1, 2024 • 16min
Stewart C Baker | Companion Animals in Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight
Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight is an American web series created by an unknown animator or animators. The show combines magical girl anime tropes with cosmic horror, following high schooler Sally Hoshino (Kira Kira Sunlight) and her friends. | © 2024 by Stewart C Baker. Narrated by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
