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Lightspeed: Year One

John Joseph Adams

First published 2011
Series Lightspeed Annuals
Publisher Prime Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Vitaly S. Alexius
Pages 575
Price $16.95
ISBN 9781607013044

  • ©2011 The publication date is not stated.
  • No printing indication on book (probably 1st).
  • Cover art credited to Vitaly S. Alexius on back cover and on copyright page
  • $21.50 in Canada; price by sticker, book has US price only on it.
  • £12.99 in UK; price by sticker, book has US price only on it.
  • "Printed in Canada"
  • Each story is followed by a footnote that lists, if applicable, any awards won or nominated for and for stories first published in Lightspeed if the story was then reprinted and where. These have been documented on the publication comments page.

Searching by ISBN: 9781607013044

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Introduction (Lightspeed: Year One) John Joseph Adams Essay
11 I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno Vylar Kaftan Short Story
17 The Cassandra Project Jack McDevitt Short Story
30 Cats in Victory David Barr Kirtley Short Story
47 Amaryllis Carrie Vaughn Short Story
59 No Time Like the Present Carol Emshwiller Short Story
70 Manumission Tobias S. Buckell Short Story
86 The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball Genevieve Valentine Short Story
93 "... for a Single Yesterday" George R. R. Martin Novelette
113 How to Become a Mars Overlord Catherynne M. Valente Short Story
120 Patient Zero Tananarive Due Short Story
134 Arvies Adam-Troy Castro Short Story
146 More Than the Sum of His Parts Joe Haldeman Short Story
161 Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain Yoon Ha Lee Short Story
168 The Long Chase Geoffrey A. Landis Short Story
178 Amid the Words of War Cat Rambo Short Story
184 Travelers Robert Silverberg Short Story
199 Hindsight Sarah Langan Short Story
209 Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back Joe R. Lansdale Short Story
223 The Taste of Starlight John R. Fultz Short Story
240 Beachworld Stephen King Short Story
255 Standard Loneliness Package Charles Yu Novelette
271 Faces in Revolving Souls Caitlín R. Kiernan Short Story
282 Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters Alice Sola Kim Short Story
289 Ej-Es Nancy Kress Short Story
306 In-Fall Ted Kosmatka Short Story
315 The Observer Kristine Kathryn Rusch Short Story
320 Jenny's Sick David Tallerman Short Story
328 The Silence of the Asonu Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story
334 Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow Corey Mariani Short Story
340 Cucumber Gravy Susan Palwick Novelette
356 Black Fire Tanith Lee Short Story
366 The Elephants of Poznan Orson Scott Card Novelette
384 Long Enough and Just So Long Cat Rambo Short Story
395 The Passenger Julie E. Czerneda Short Story
405 Simulacrum Ken Liu Short Story
413 Breakaway, Backdown James Patrick Kelly Short Story
420 Saying the Names M. L. Clark Short Story
431 Gossamer Stephen Baxter Short Story
446 Spider the Artist Nnedi Okorafor Short Story
457 Woman Leaves Room Robert Reed Short Story
464 All That Touches the Air An Owomoyela Short Story
481 Maneki Neko Bruce Sterling Short Story
495 Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son Tom Crosshill Short Story
503 Velvet Fields Anne McCaffrey Short Story
510 The Harrowers Eric Gregory Short Story
527 Bibi from Jupiter Tessa Mellas Short Story
540 Eliot Wrote Nancy Kress Short Story
551 Scales Alastair Reynolds Short Story