Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 182 (July 2025)

LIGHTSPEED is a digital 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.

Welcome to issue 182 of LIGHTSPEED! We have original science fiction by Meghan McCarron ("Lord of Mars") and Naomi Kanakia ("Domestic Disputes"). We also have two terrific flash pieces: "How to Win Against the Robots" from Katherine Crighton and "Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide" by Leah Cypess._Plus, we have original fantasy by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe ("A Dish Best Served Cold, Or, An Excerpt From the Cookbook of the Gods") and Paul Crenshaw ("You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb"). We also have a flash story ("What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City?") from sadoeuphemist, and another ("Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective") from Spencer Nitkey._All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team.