Lightspeed Magazine, May 2013

Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.

This month, we have original science fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley ("The Traditional") and M. Bennardo ("Water Finds Its Level"), along with SF reprints by Maureen F. McHugh ("Interview: On Any Given Day") and Sean Williams ("The Missing Metatarsals").

Plus, we have original fantasy by Damien Walters Grintalis ("Always, They Whisper") and Dennis Danvers ("Leaving the Dead"), and fantasy reprints by Holly Black ("The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue") and Richard Parks ("The Man Who Carved Skulls").

For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is "The Garden" by Eleanor Arnason, and of course we have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with Gregory Maguire and Karen Russell.