Lightspeed: Year One - Softcover

King, Stephen; Card, Orson Scott; Martin, George R. R.; Silverberg, Robert; Le Guin, Ursula K.; Reed, Robert; McCaffrey, Anne; Kress, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607013045 ISBN 13: 9781607013044

Publisher: Prime Books, 2011

Synopsis

Lightspeed: Year One compiles all the fiction published by the online science fiction magazine Lightspeed in its first year. Originally published stories include Nebula Award finalists Vylar Kaftan's "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" and Adam-Troy Castro's "Arvies" as well as Carrie Vaughn's Hugo Award-nominated "Amaryllis". Plus there are classic stories by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and more.

The popular, critically-acclaimed Lightspeed is edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future sociological soft sf to far-future star-spanning hard sf--and everything in between. Each month, Lightspeed features a mix of original and classic stories, from a variety of authors, showcasing the best new genre voices along with bestsellers, award-winners, fan favorites, and notable authors readers already know.

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Table of Contents:

• "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" by Vylar Kaftan
• "The Cassandra Project" by Jack McDevitt
• "Cats in Victory" by David Barr Kirtley
• "Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn
• "No Time Like the Present" by Carol Emshwiller
• "Manumission" by Tobias S. Buckell
• "The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball" by Genevieve Valentine
• "...For a Single Yesterday" by George R. R. Martin
• "How to Become a Mars Overlord" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due
• "Arvies" by Adam-Troy Castro
• "More Than the Sum of His Parts" by Joe Haldeman
• "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "The Long Chase" by Geoffrey A. Landis
• "Amid the Words of War" by Cat Rambo
• "Travelers" by Robert Silverberg
• "Hindsight" by Sarah Langan
• "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" by Joe R. Lansdale
• "The Taste of Starlight" by John R. Fultz
• "Beachworld" by Stephen King
• "Standard Loneliness Package" by Charles Yu
• "Faces in Revolving Souls" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• "Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters" by Alice Sola Kim
• "Ej-Es" by Nancy Kress
• "In-Fall" by Ted Kosmatka
• "The Observer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Jenny's Sick" by David Tallerman
• "The Silence of the Asonu" by Ursula K. Le Guin
• "Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow" by Corey Mariani
• "Cucumber Gravy" by Susan Palwick
• "Black Fire" by Tanith Lee
• "The Elephants of Poznan" by Orson Scott Card
• "Long Enough And Just So Long" by Cat Rambo
• "The Passenger" by Julie E. Czerneda
• "Simulacrum" by Ken Liu
• "Breakaway, Backdown" by James Patrick Kelly
• "Saying the Names" by Maggie Clark
• "Gossamer" by Stephen Baxter
• "Spider the Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor
• "Woman Leaves Room" by Robert Reed
• "All That Touches the Air" by An Owomoyela
• "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling
• "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" by Tom Crosshill
• "Velvet Fields" by Anne McCaffrey
• "The Harrowers" by Eric Gregory
• "Bibi From Jupiter" by Tessa Mellas
• "Eliot Wrote" by Nancy Kress
• "Scales" by Alastair Reynolds

About the Author

John Joseph Adams, called "the reigning king of the anthology world" by Barnes & Noble, is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as EPIC, OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE, ARMORED, UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS: NEW ADVENTURES ON BARSOOM, LIGHTSPEED: YEAR ONE, BRAVE NEW WORLDS, WASTELANDS, THE LIVING DEAD, THE LIVING DEAD 2, BY BLOOD WE LIVE, FEDERATIONS, THE IMPROBABLE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, and THE WAY OF THE WIZARD. He is a four-time finalist for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. He is also the editor and publisher of LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE, and is the co-host of Wired.com's THE GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY podcast. Forthcoming anthologies include THE MAD SCIENTIST'S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION (Tor Books, 2013), WASTELANDS 2 (Night Shade Books, 2013), and ROBOT UPRISINGS (Doubleday, 2014). Find him online at johnjosephadams.com and on Twitter @JohnJosephAdams.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prime Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1607013045
• ISBN 13: 9781607013044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: John Joseph Adams