Lightspeed, June 2014

June 2014

Editor	Christie Yant
Cover art	Galen Dara
Publisher	Lightspeed Magazine
Price	$3.99

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Issue 49.
Special super-sized Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue funded by a Kickstarter campaign. Christie Yant is credited as the Guest Editor and based upon her editorial seems to be the primary editor for this issue. She is credited as the Original Short Stories editor. Rachel Swirsky is credited as the Reprint Editor, Wendy N. Wagner as the Nonfiction/Managing Editor, Robyn Lupo as the Flash Fiction Editor, and Gabrielle de Cuir as the Podcast Producer.

Page	Type	Kind	Title	Author(s)
\|1	Essay	Non Fiction	Editorial: Women Destroy Science Fiction!	Christie Yant & Rachel Swirsky & Wendy N. Wagner & Robyn Lupo & Gabrielle de Cuir
\|10	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Lonely Sea in the Sky	Amal El-Mohtar
\|11	Short Fiction	Fiction	A Burglary, Addressed by a Young Lady	Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
\|12	Short Fiction	Fiction	Canth	K. C. Norton
\|13	Short Fiction	Fiction	Like Daughter	Tananarive Due
\|14	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Great Loneliness	Maria Romasco Moore
\|15	Short Fiction	Fiction	Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death	James Tiptree, Jr.
\|16	Short Fiction	Fiction	Knapsack Poems	Eleanor Arnason
\|17	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Cost to Be Wise	Maureen F. McHugh
\|18	Short Fiction	Fiction	Salvage	Carrie Vaughn
\|19	Short Fiction	Fiction	A Guide to Grief	Emily Fox
\|2	Short Fiction	Fiction	Each to Each	Seanan McGuire
\|20	Short Fiction	Fiction	See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES!	Tina Connolly
\|21	Short Fiction	Fiction	A Debt Repaid	Marina J. Lostetter
\|22	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced	Sarah Pinsker
\|23	Short Fiction	Fiction	#TrainFightTuesday	Vanessa Torline
\|24	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23	Rhiannon Rasmussen
\|25	Short Fiction	Fiction	Emoticon	Anaid Perez
\|26	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Mouths	Ellen Denham
\|27	Short Fiction	Fiction	M1A	Kim Winternheimer
\|28	Short Fiction	Fiction	Standard Deviant	Holly Schofield
\|29	Short Fiction	Fiction	Getting on in Years	Cathy Humble
\|3	Short Fiction	Fiction	A Word Shaped Like Bones	Kris Millering
\|30	Short Fiction	Fiction	Ro-Sham-Bot	Effie Seiberg
\|31	Short Fiction	Fiction	Everything That Has Already Been Said	Samantha Murray
\|32	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Lies We Tell Our Children	Katherine Crighton
\|33	Short Fiction	Fiction	Artemis Awakening (excerpt)	Jane Lindskold
\|34	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Seanan McGuire	Sandra Odell & Seanan McGuire
\|35	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Kris Millering	Lee Hallison & Kris Millering
\|36	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Heather Clitheroe	Lee Hallison & Heather Clitheroe
\|37	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: N. K. Jemisin	Laurel Amberdine & N. K. Jemisin
\|38	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Rhonda Eikamp	Sandra Odell & Rhonda Eikamp
\|39	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Gabriella Stalker	Lee Hallison & Gabriella Stalker
\|4	Short Fiction	Fiction	Cuts Both Ways	Heather Clitheroe
\|40	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Charlie Jane Anders	Sandra Odell & Charlie Jane Anders
\|41	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Jude Griffin & Maria Dahvana Headley
\|42	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Amal El-Mohtar	Jude Griffin & Amal El-Mohtar
\|43	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Porter Birdsall	Laurel Amberdine & Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
\|44	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: K. C. Norton	Laurel Amberdine & K. C. Norton
\|45	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Tananarive Due (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Jude Griffin & Tananarive Due
\|46	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Maria Romasco Moore	Jude Griffin & Maria Romasco-Moore
\|47	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Eleanor Arnason (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Jude Griffin & Eleanor Arnason
\|48	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Maureen McHugh	Jude Griffin & Maureen F. McHugh
\|49	Essay	Non Fiction	Artists Spotlight	Galen Dara
\|5	Short Fiction	Fiction	Walking Awake	N. K. Jemisin
\|51	Interview	Non Fiction	Artists Spotlight: Li Grabenstetter	Galen Dara & Lisa Grabenstetter
\|53	Interview	Non Fiction	Artists Spotlight: Elizabeth Leggett	Galen Dara & Elizabeth Leggett
\|55	Interview	Non Fiction	Artists Spotlight: Christine Mitzuk	Galen Dara & Christine Mitzuk
\|57	Interview	Non Fiction	Artists Spotlight: Hillary Pearlman	Galen Dara & Hillary Pearlman
\|58	Essay	Non Fiction	Illusion, Expectation, and World Domination Through Bake Sales	Pat Murphy
\|58.1	Interview	Non Fiction	Women Remember: A Roundtable Interview	Mary Robinette Kowal & Ursula K. Le Guin & Pat Cadigan & Ellen Datlow & Nancy Kress
\|58.2	Interview	Non Fiction	Feature Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick	Jennifer Willis & Kelly Sue DeConnick
\|59	Essay	Non Fiction	"The Status Quo Cannot Hold": A Few Words from Women Who Wrote/Are Writing the Goddamn Book on Destroying Science Fiction	Tracie Welser
\|6	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Case of the Passionless Bees	Rhonda Eikamp
\|60	Essay	Non Fiction	How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess	Stina Leicht
\|61	Essay	Non Fiction	Screaming Together: Making Women's Voices Heard	Nisi Shawl
\|62	Essay	Non Fiction	We Are the Fifty Percent	Rachel Swirsky
\|63	Essay	Non Fiction	Science Fiction: You're Doin' It Wrong	Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
\|64	Essay	Non Fiction	Join Us in the Future	Marissa Lingen
\|65	Essay	Non Fiction	Are We There Yet?	Sheila Finch
\|66	Essay	Non Fiction	Not a Spaceship, Robot, or Zombie in Sight	Anne Charnock
\|67	Essay	Non Fiction	Writing Among the Beginning of Women	Amy Sterling Casil
\|68	Essay	Non Fiction	Toward a Better Future	Nancy Jane Moore
\|69	Essay	Non Fiction	We Are the Army of Women Destroying SF	Sandra Wickham
\|7	Short Fiction	Fiction	In the Image of Man	Gabriella Stalker
\|70	Essay	Non Fiction	Read SF and You've Got a Posse	Gail Marsella
\|71	Essay	Non Fiction	Stomp All Over That	O. J. Cade
\|72	Essay	Non Fiction	For the Trailblazers	Kristi Charish
\|73	Essay	Non Fiction	Women Are the Future of Science Fiction	Juliette Wade
\|74	Essay	Non Fiction	We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative	Kameron Hurley
\|75	Essay	Non Fiction	Writing Stories, Wrinkling Time	Kat Howard
\|76	Essay	Non Fiction	Where Are My SF Books?	DeAnna Knippling
\|77	Essay	Non Fiction	Reading the Library Alphabetically	Liz Argall
\|78	Essay	Non Fiction	Stepping Through a Portal	Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
\|79	Essay	Non Fiction	The Wendybird	Stina Leicht
\|8	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick	Charlie Jane Anders
\|80	Essay	Non Fiction	I Wanted to Be the First Woman on the Moon	Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
\|81	Essay	Non Fiction	Never Think of Yourself as Less	Helena Bell
\|82	Essay	Non Fiction	An ABC of Kickass, or A Partial Exorcism of My TBR/TBRA* Pile	Jude Griffin
\|83	Essay	Non Fiction	Stocking Stuffers	Anaea Lay
\|84	Essay	Non Fiction	Breaching the Gap	Brooke Bolander
\|85	Essay	Non Fiction	Women Who Are More Than Strong	Georgina Kamsika
\|86	Essay	Non Fiction	A Science-Fictional Woman	Cheryl Morgan
\|87	Essay	Non Fiction	Your Future Is Out of Date	Pat Murphy
\|88	Essay	Non Fiction	Stray Outside the Lines	E. Catherine Tobler
\|89	Essay	Non Fiction	My Love Can Destroy	Seanan McGuire
\|9	Short Fiction	Fiction	Dim Sun	Maria Dahvana Headley

Page	Type	Kind	Title	Author(s)
	Editor	Non Fiction	Lightspeed - 2014	Christie Yant
	Cover Art	Non Fiction	Lightspeed, June 2014	Galen Dara
\|13.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Like Daughter	Elizabeth Leggett
\|15.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death	Lisa Grabenstetter
\|18.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Salvage	Elizabeth Leggett
\|2.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Each to Each	Lisa Grabenstetter
\|3.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	A Word Shaped Like Bones	Lisa Grabenstetter
\|4.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Cuts Both Ways	Elizabeth Leggett
\|5.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Walking Awake	Hillary Pearlman
\|50	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Li Grabenstetter
\|52	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Hillary Pearlman
\|54	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Elizabeth Leggett
\|56	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014)	Christine Mitzuk
\|6.5	Interior Art	Non Fiction	The Case of the Passionless Bees	Christine Mitzuk

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