Lightspeed Magazine

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

Huge congrats to our editor @wnwagner.bsky.social for winning the frickin' WORLD FANTASY AWARD!! locusmag.com/2026/10/worl...

This week in NIGHTMARE: "Shambling Groaning Brain-Dead Endocannibal on Exeter Street" by Ferdison Cayetano www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/sham...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Ice Like Honey" by Rob Cameron www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ice-...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "All the Shapes We Have Ever Been" by Kehkashan Khalid www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/all-...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Uncanny Jack" by Susan Palwick www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/unca...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Master/Slave Couple Seeking Physicist to Feed to a Black Hole" by Arden Powell www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/mast...

We've got 13 hours to go on the Kickstarter. Still plenty of time to get in some last day pledges! (But we're good, we're all funded, huzzah!)

The Kickstarter has ~35 hours left to go & we're at 107% of our funding goal. Thanks so much for the continued support! We've obviously surpassed our goal, but each additional pledge helps move the magazines from survive into THRIVE territory, so pledges are very much still welcome! bit.ly/LS-NM-26

We did it! The LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is now fully funded! Thanks so much to everyone backed, shared, or helped spread the word. We couldn't have done it without you! The campaign is still open for another 59 hours, so there's still time to back it if you haven't already. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

We're now 95% funded with 61 hours & $2300 left to go! This is Kickstarter, so it's all-or-nothing, meaning if we don't reach $50K the campaign doesn't fund. So if you've been thinking about backing, now's the time—and if you already have backed (thank you!), please spread the word! bit.ly/LS-NM-26

We saw a huge uptick in backers since this quoted post. Thanks to everyone who backed and shared! We've still got about $4800 to go with 3 days left. Please do still share the quoted post if you haven't already. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

According to Kickstarter tracking service, Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE campaign is trending toward only reaching 94% of our goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

Five days left on the Lightspeed & Nightmare kickstarter, and they still need $10k to meet their funding goal! Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

Behold, a 3000 year old Chinese ceremonial bronze axe bearing a human face of which archeologists described as "fearsome and fierce".

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

This week in NIGHTMARE: "An Unavoidable Consequence of..." by Kurt Fawver www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/an-u...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Until the Cure" by Marissa Lingen www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/unti...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Guidance" by Martin Cahill www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/guid...

We've now surpassed 75% of our funding goal! In addition to subscriptions, we've got t-shirts, mugs, signed books, stuff from the magazine archives... We're still about $12,000 away from our $50,000 target with 7 days remaining, so please consider backing if you haven't already. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

We haven't mentioned our Kickstarter in a while, but we just made this new GIF which shows you all of the amazing authors who agreed to write stories for us should the Kickstarter fund. We're closing in on 75% funded with 10 days left to go. Please consider backing if you can! 💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

This Saturday our editor @johnjosephadams.com will be at the Archon convention (Collinsville, IL). You'll be able to find him in the Bookseller's Row area selling anthologies and handing out Kickstarter postcards and hopefully chatting with cool people. If you're going, come say hello! archonstl.org

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Congratulations on your Magic Sword™" by John Wiswell www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cong...

This week in LIGHTSPEED: "The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana" by Adam-Troy Castro www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Our friends at Apex launched their own Kickstarter today, and to celebrate the occasion, we did an "interview war" between both editors-in-chief—i.e., they interviewed each other. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

We just hit 50% of our goal with 20 days remaining. Thanks again so much to everyone who backed the campaign. We also just added a new Add-On: Signed copies of The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson! Back today: bit.ly/LS-NM-26

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Jempo" by Thomas Ha www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/jempo/

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Alterverse" by Sanjana Raj www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/alte...

We've reached 40% of our funding goal & we added a bunch of new add-on rewards, including signed books by Chuck Wendig, Daniel H. Wilson, Ken Liu, Paul Tremblay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, Veronica Roth, Victor LaValle, Olivie Blake, P. Djèlí Clark, Seanan McGuire & Martha Wells.

We've reached and then quickly surpassed 25% of our funding goal and are now closing in on $15K and 30%. 178 of you have pledged your support so far. Thanks so much to all of you for backing and spreading the word... and being a part of the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE story. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Dragon, the Scarab, the Wolf, the Dragon" by Rhiannon Rasmussen www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Alterverse" by Sanjana Raj www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/alte...

WOW, what a first day! In our first 24 hours, nearly 150 backers pledged more than $11K, putting us 22% of the way toward our goal. Several of our limited signed books and collectibles are already gone. If you haven't checked it out yet: bit.ly/LS-NM-26

For other time zones—The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare collectibles, t-shirts, mugs & other fun stuff. Thanks in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Long Goodbyes" by Anya Ow www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/long...

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Chrysalis of Moth One" by V.M. Ayala www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-gu...

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Dreamweavers" by Alexander Weinstein www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/drea...