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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
Nov 16, 2010 • 26min
Alice Sola Kim | Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 2, 2010 • 53min
Charles Yu | Standard Loneliness Package
Root canal is one fifty, give or take, depending on who’s doing it to you. A migraine is two hundred. Not that I get the money. The company gets it. What I get is twelve dollars an hour, plus reimbursement for painkillers. Not that they work. I feel pain for money. Other people’s pain. Physical, emotional, you name it. Copyright 2010 by Charles Yu. Narrated by Christian Rummel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2010 • 1h 6min
John R. Fultz | The Taste of Starlight
Narrated by Kristoffer Tabori. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 12, 2010 • 46min
Joe R. Lansdale | Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back
(Boom!) That’s a little scientist joke, and the proper way to begin this. As for the purpose of my notebook, I’m uncertain. Perhaps to organize my thoughts and not to go insane. | Copyright 1986 Joe R. Lansdale. First appeared in Nukes edited by John MacLay. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 21, 2010 • 23min
Cat Rambo | Amid the Words of War
Narrated by Don Leslie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 7, 2010 • 25min
Yoon Ha Lee | Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain
Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 24, 2010 • 50min
Joe Haldeman | More Than the Sum of His Parts
21 August 2058. They say I am to keep a detailed record of my feelings, my perceptions, as I grow accustomed to the new parts. To that end, they gave me an apparatus that blind people use for writing, like a tablet with guide wires. It is somewhat awkward. But a recorder would be useless, since I will not have a mouth for some time, and I can't type blind with only one hand. | Copyright 1985 by Joe Haldeman Originally appeared in Playboy. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 17, 2010 • 35min
Adam-Troy Castro | Arvies
Narrated by Christie Yant (for StarShipSofa). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 3, 2010 • 33min
Catherynne M. Valente | How to Become a Mars Overlord
Welcome, Aspiring Potentates! We are tremendously gratified at your interest in our little red project, and pleased that you recognize the potential growth opportunities inherent in whole-planet domination. Of course we remain humble in the face of such august and powerful interests, and seek only to showcase the unique and challenging career paths currently available on the highly desirable, iconic, and oxygen-rich landscape of Mars. | Copyright 2010 by Catherynne M. Valente. Narrated by Robin Sachs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 20, 2010 • 22min
Genevieve Valentine | The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball
Narrated by Rosalyn Landor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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