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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 191
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 191 of LIGHTSPEED! If you love a Weird West adventure, then you are in luck, because we are serializing Ashok K. Banker's novelette "Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley," a new story of kidnapping, body modifications, and a most lovable half-wolf, half-horse steed. If the name "Six-Gun Vixen" rings a bell, it's because she first appeared in "Six-Gun Vixen and the Dead Coon Trashgang" all the way back in our eighty-first issue. The fantasy fun continues with two great flash "Hell Is Empty" from J.R. Dawson and "Time Management" from P.A. Cornell. Our SF flash includes "Dad Died on Discord" by Andrew Dana Hudson and "Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces" by Andrea Kriz. Our first piece of original SF this month is V.M. Ayala's "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight." Dr. Justin C. Key returns to our pages with "Empathetic Psychosis," a speculative story about helping treat mental illness.
Welcome to issue 191 of LIGHTSPEED! If you love a Weird West adventure, then you are in luck, because we are serializing Ashok K. Banker's novelette "Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley," a new story of kidnapping, body modifications, and a most lovable half-wolf, half-horse steed. If the name "Six-Gun Vixen" rings a bell, it's because she first appeared in "Six-Gun Vixen and the Dead Coon Trashgang" all the way back in our eighty-first issue. The fantasy fun continues with two great flash "Hell Is Empty" from J.R. Dawson and "Time Management" from P.A. Cornell. Our SF flash includes "Dad Died on Discord" by Andrew Dana Hudson and "Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces" by Andrea Kriz. Our first piece of original SF this month is V.M. Ayala's "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight." Dr. Justin C. Key returns to our pages with "Empathetic Psychosis," a speculative story about helping treat mental illness.
210 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 30, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Standout for this issue was Six-Gun Vixen .... An ok western adventure, but not having read any other it felt like I was something to fully enjoy.
Saint Zero ... also had some promise, but it felt a bit rushed and underdeveloped. Neither the setting or the main characters motivation felt explored enough, leaving the story feeling a bit hollow.
Saint Zero ... also had some promise, but it felt a bit rushed and underdeveloped. Neither the setting or the main characters motivation felt explored enough, leaving the story feeling a bit hollow.
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August 3, 2026"Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley," Ashok K. Banker; "Empathetic Psychosis," Justin C. Key: very good. Of note, P. A. Cornell.
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