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, features original audio short stories 6-8 times a month.
Latest episodes
Jun 17, 2024 • 42min
Deborah L. Davitt | In the Hands of the Mountain God
The towering granite shoulders of the mountain god braced against the blue heavens above. Eero’s eyes remained closed beneath his glacial mask, his body swathed in a cloak of green trees. | © 2024 by Deborah L. Davitt. Narrated by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 9min
Andrea Kriz | Udo Gehler and the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance
Udo Gehler saw his next opponent was the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance and didn’t even blink. | © 2024 by Andrea Kriz. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 10, 2024 • 11min
Megan Chee | An Otherworldly Cat Tells You the Secrets of the Universe
There are a near-infinite number of strange and marvelous worlds in this Universe, and in all of them there are Cats. | © 2024 by Megan Chee. Read by Scott Peterson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 6, 2024 • 14min
dave ring | The Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound
Dawn shot a quiver of cirrus that smeared like sunscreen across the sky. Bini had been awake for hours, back aching. She was too old for this shit. | © 2024 by dave ring. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 3, 2024 • 38min
Varsha Dinesh | Sparrow and the Parasol
Deep in the abyss of the Unholy Bazaar, in a shop that reeked of death and god-blood, Sparrow lay screaming in a web of rope and unbreakable silk. | © 2024 by Varsha Dinesh. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 30, 2024 • 10min
Ash Howell | Chaos Theory
I want to tell you everything. I should tell you that you’re the greatest accomplishment our people have ever produced. I should tell you that you’re loved. | © 2024 by Ash Howell. Narrated by Alison Belle Bews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 27, 2024 • 17min
P H Lee | Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows
The night before the comet hit, Richard Milhous Nixon awoke restless and well before dawn. | © 2024 by P H Lee. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2024 • 44min
Nisi Shawl | Over a Long Time Ago
She should go back inside the watchpod. Maree and Blaise didn’t have to be dead. | © 2024 by Nisi Shawl. Narrated by Alison Belle Bews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 20, 2024 • 14min
Marissa Lingen | And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream
Gemma checks and rechecks the stories and songs, but she can’t find anything that says you have to go back. | © 2024 by Marissa Lingen. Narrated by Alison Belle Bews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 16, 2024 • 11min
Stephen Geigen-Miller | The Last Thing They See Is Laika
So much for Shapcott’s harbinger of astronautical doom. He hasn’t seen her at all. Or anyone, obviously. | © 2024 by Stephen Geigen-Miller. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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