Lightspeed, June 2015

June 2015

Editor	Seanan McGuire
Cover art	Elizabeth Leggett
Publisher	Lightspeed Magazine
Price	$3.99

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Issue 61
Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue.
Seanan McGuire is the guest editor.
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Page	Type	Kind	Title	Author(s)
\|10	Essay	Non Fiction	The Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto	Seanan McGuire & Steve Berman
\|100	Short Fiction	Fiction	How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War	Rose Lemberg
\|1000	Essay	Non Fiction	Creative Destruction	Lisa Nohealani Morton
\|1010	Essay	Non Fiction	Here's How It Goes	Alyssa Wong
\|1020	Essay	Non Fiction	Acceptance	Arley Sorg
\|1030	Essay	Non Fiction	The Books That Read Me	Everett Maroon
\|1040	Essay	Non Fiction	The Desperate Task: Making the Invisible Visible	Christopher Barzak
\|1050	Essay	Non Fiction	A World of Queer Imagination	Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
\|1060	Essay	Non Fiction	The First Rule I Learned About Writing Queer Characters in Science Fiction	Haralambi Markov
\|1070	Essay	Non Fiction	Queers Digging and Destroying	Michael Damian Thomas
\|110	Short Fiction	Fiction	Plant Children	Jessica Yang
\|120	Short Fiction	Fiction	Nothing Is Pixels Here	K. M. Szpara
\|140	Short Fiction	Fiction	Madeleine	Amal El-Mohtar
\|160	Short Fiction	Fiction	Two By Two	Tim Susman
\|170	Short Fiction	Fiction	Die, Sophie, Die	Susan Jane Bigelow
\|180	Short Fiction	Fiction	Melioration	E. Saxey
\|20	Short Fiction	Fiction	勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)	John Chu
\|200	Short Fiction	Fiction	Rubbing Is Racing	Charles Payseur
\|210	Short Fiction	Fiction	Helping Hand	Claudine Griggs
\|220	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Lamb Chops	Stephen Cox (I)
\|230	Short Fiction	Fiction	Mama	Eliza Gauger
\|240	Short Fiction	Fiction	Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind	Erica L. Satifka
\|250	Poem	Fiction	Deep/Dark Space	Gabrielle Friesen
\|260	Short Fiction	Fiction	A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices	Gabby Reed
\|270	Short Fiction	Fiction	Nothing Goes to Waste	Shannon Peavey
\|280	Short Fiction	Fiction	In the Dawns Between Hours	Sarah Pinsker
\|290	Short Fiction	Fiction	Increasing Police Visibility	Bogi Takács
\|300	Short Fiction	Fiction	Letter from an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife	J. Y. Yang
\|310	Short Fiction	Fiction	Black Holes	R. J. Edwards
\|330	Short Fiction	Fiction	Red Run	A. M. J. Hudson
\|350	Short Fiction	Fiction	Cyberfruit Swamp	Raven Kaldera
\|360	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Sound of His Wings	Rand B. Lee
\|370	Short Fiction	Fiction	O Happy Day!	Geoff Ryman
\|380	Short Fiction	Fiction	Skin Folk (from "Something to Hitch Meat To") (excerpt)	Nalo Hopkinson
\|390	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: John Chu	Kate M. Galey & John Chu
\|40	Short Fiction	Fiction	Emergency Repair	Kate M. Galey
\|400	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Kate M. Galey	Robyn Lupo & Kate M. Galey
\|410	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam	Jill Seidenstein & Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
\|420	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Chaz Brenchley	Rahul Kanakia & Chaz Brenchley
\|430	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Felicia Davin	Robyn Lupo & Felicia Davin
\|440	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Rose Lemberg	Sandra Odell & Rose Lemberg
\|450	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Jessica Yang	Arley Sorg & Jessica Yang
\|460	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: K. M. Szpara	Sandra Odell & K. M. Szpara
\|470	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Amal El-Mohtar	Wendy N. Wagner & Amal El-Mohtar
\|480	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Tim Susman	Rahul Kanakia & Kyell Gold
\|490	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Susan Jane Bigelow	Jill Seidenstein & Susan Jane Bigelow
\|500	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: RJ Edwards	Sandra Odell & R. J. Edwards
\|510	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: A. M. J. Hudson	Sandra Odell & A. M. J. Hudson
\|520	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Raven Kaldera	Sandra Odell & Raven Kaldera
\|530	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Rand B. Lee	Arley Sorg & Rand B. Lee
\|540	Interview	Non Fiction	Author Spotlight: Geoff Ryman	Robyn Lupo & Geoff Ryman
\|60	Short Fiction	Fiction	Trickier with Each Translation	Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
\|630	Essay	Non Fiction	Book Reviews: June 2015 (Lightspeed)	Amal El-Mohtar
\|640	Review	Non Fiction	Archivist Wasp	Amal El-Mohtar & Nicole Kornher-Stace
\|650	Review	Non Fiction	Karen Memory	Amal El-Mohtar & Elizabeth Bear
\|660	Review	Non Fiction	Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites	Amal El-Mohtar & Hal Duncan
\|670	Interview	Non Fiction	Interview: David Gerrold	Mark Oshiro & David Gerrold
\|680	Essay	Non Fiction	We've Made It to ... Magrathea? Why We as QTPOC Need to Hack Science Fiction's Improbability Drive	Jennifer Cross
\|690	Essay	Non Fiction	Not Android, Not Alien, Not Accident: Asexual and Agender in Science Fiction	Cedar Rae Duke
\|70	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal	Chaz Brenchley
\|700	Essay	Non Fiction	Diversity in a Ghetto: The Marginalization of Modern Activism in Traditional Fandom	Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez
\|710	Essay	Non Fiction	Queers in a Strange Land	Amber Neko Meador
\|720	Essay	Non Fiction	Science Fiction Failed Me	Cory Skerry
\|730	Essay	Non Fiction	So Say We All	Emma Osborne
\|740	Essay	Non Fiction	1984 in 1980	Lee Thomas
\|750	Essay	Non Fiction	Speak Up, Speak Out	Sandra Odell
\|760	Essay	Non Fiction	How Queer Narratives Beat the False-Consensus Effect, Reminded Me That Diversity Existed, Exploited Human Psychology, Inspired Sex Positivity, and Helped Me Stop Worrying (but Not to Love the Bomb)	An Owomoyela
\|770	Essay	Non Fiction	Spark	Mark Oshiro
\|780	Essay	Non Fiction	Science Fiction Has Always Been Queer	Sigrid Ellis
\|790	Essay	Non Fiction	Halfway in the Pool	James L. Sutter
\|800	Essay	Non Fiction	All That Glitters	Jill Seidenstein
\|810	Essay	Non Fiction	When We're Not There, We're Not Here	Jerome Stueart
\|90	Short Fiction	Fiction	The Tip of the Tongue	Felicia Davin
\|910	Essay	Non Fiction	A Gay Boy Gets His Genre On	Anthony R. Cardno
\|920	Essay	Non Fiction	All Your Fic Are Belong to Us	Rachel Swirsky
\|930	Essay	Non Fiction	Go Bisexual Space Rangers, Go!	Cecilia Tan
\|940	Essay	Non Fiction	Drama Kid	Cecil Baldwin
\|950	Essay	Non Fiction	Rewriting Our Default Settings	Elizabeth Leggett
\|960	Essay	Non Fiction	Confessions of a Queer Curator	Lynne M. Thomas
\|970	Essay	Non Fiction	Where Now Must I Go to Make a Home?	Hal Duncan
\|980	Essay	Non Fiction	Destruction Is What Creation Needs	Sunny Moraine
\|990	Essay	Non Fiction	Shiva and Octavia	Sam J. Miller

Page	Type	Kind	Title	Author(s)
	Editor	Non Fiction	Lightspeed - 2015	Seanan McGuire
	Cover Art	Non Fiction	Lightspeed, June 2015	Elizabeth Leggett
\|130	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Nothing Is Pixels Here	Isabel Collier
\|150	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Madeleine	Orion Zangara
\|190	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Melioration	Steen
\|30	Interior Art	Non Fiction	勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)	Odera Igbokwe
\|320	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Black Holes	Elizabeth Leggett
\|340	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Red Run	Elizabeth Leggett
\|50	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Emergency Repair	Paige Braddock
\|560	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	C. Bedford
\|570	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	Odera Igbokwe
\|580	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	Orion Zangara
\|590	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	Isabel Collier
\|600	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	Paige Braddock
\|610	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	Steen
\|620	Interior Art	Non Fiction	Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015)	Elizabeth Leggett
\|80	Interior Art	Non Fiction	The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal	C. Bedford

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