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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 187
LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Welcome to issue 187 of LIGHTSPEED! We're starting off this month's science fiction with "Reality Check," a new short story from Nancy Kress that asks whether our love affair with technology is whittling down our very humanity. For something a little more lighthearted, we're happy to bring you a new short by Oyedotun Damilola "The Hub Living Among the Stars." It's imaginative SF at its most enjoyable. We also have two terrific flash "Us, in Another Universe" from A.C. Wise and "The Space Between Us" by P.A. Cornell. Jonathan Olfert returns to our pages with a new fantasy story, "Crickets in Lost Light," which follows Ander Carmora after the events of "Ninnagan Says Remember" (from our March 2025 issue). Things have only gotten more complicated for our hero, but he keeps learning and growing. Our second fantasy short is the slightly darker "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino. We also have a flash story ("You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World") from Aimee Ogden, and another ("HagioClass") from Jose Pablo Iriarte.
Welcome to issue 187 of LIGHTSPEED! We're starting off this month's science fiction with "Reality Check," a new short story from Nancy Kress that asks whether our love affair with technology is whittling down our very humanity. For something a little more lighthearted, we're happy to bring you a new short by Oyedotun Damilola "The Hub Living Among the Stars." It's imaginative SF at its most enjoyable. We also have two terrific flash "Us, in Another Universe" from A.C. Wise and "The Space Between Us" by P.A. Cornell. Jonathan Olfert returns to our pages with a new fantasy story, "Crickets in Lost Light," which follows Ander Carmora after the events of "Ninnagan Says Remember" (from our March 2025 issue). Things have only gotten more complicated for our hero, but he keeps learning and growing. Our second fantasy short is the slightly darker "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino. We also have a flash story ("You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World") from Aimee Ogden, and another ("HagioClass") from Jose Pablo Iriarte.
- GenresFantasy
157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2025
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January 15, 2026
One of the weaker issues for me, but with a strong finish.
I really enjoyed Memories of the MindMine, and found HagioClass refreshing with its . I was excited for Crickets in Lost Light as I liked the connected story Ninnagan Says Remember (in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 180) but it didn't really connect with me.
I really enjoyed Memories of the MindMine, and found HagioClass refreshing with its . I was excited for Crickets in Lost Light as I liked the connected story Ninnagan Says Remember (in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 180) but it didn't really connect with me.
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February 13, 2026Cornell's and Marino's stories are very good in this one.
December 7, 2025
Best issue this year.
January 21, 2026
1/16/26
Read "Us, In Another Universe" by A.C. Wise. Cute, funny, poignant meta meditation on shipping from the perspective of a character who's part of a much-beloved ship and is aware of the stories written about them and their counterpart. 3.5 stars.
1/21/26
Read "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino. Sharp and gutting story of what happens when you let hunger for knowledge of the past blind you to the possibilities of your own future. I felt so much for Rat and for William. And damn, what a cool worldbuild, where people can enter the dead brain of a god and find it goes on and on forever. 4 stars.
Read "Us, In Another Universe" by A.C. Wise. Cute, funny, poignant meta meditation on shipping from the perspective of a character who's part of a much-beloved ship and is aware of the stories written about them and their counterpart. 3.5 stars.
1/21/26
Read "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino. Sharp and gutting story of what happens when you let hunger for knowledge of the past blind you to the possibilities of your own future. I felt so much for Rat and for William. And damn, what a cool worldbuild, where people can enter the dead brain of a god and find it goes on and on forever. 4 stars.
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