What is Lightspeed (magazine)?
{{citation style|date=July 2012}} {{Italic title}} '''''Lightspeed''''' is an American online [[fantasy]] and [[science fiction]] [[magazine]]. [[John Joseph Adams]] edits and publishes the magazine. The first issue was published in June 2010<ref>Klima, John. Tor.com [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/06/lightspeed-magazine Lightspeed Magazine #1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409072628/http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/06/lightspeed-magazine |date=2015-04-09 }} June 2010.</ref> It is published every month. The magazine publishes four new, original stories and four reprints in every issue. It also includes interviews with the authors and other nonfiction. All of the content published in each issue is sold as as an ebook and for free on the magazine's website. ''Lightspeed'' also makes a free podcast with some stories.<ref>SFFAudio.com [http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=20471 Lightspeed Magazine will have a podcast!] May 2010.</ref> Stefan Rudnicki produces the podcast. ==History== ''Lightspeed'' was started by publisher [[Sean Wallace]] of [[Prime Books]] with John Joseph Adams as editor.<ref>Locus Online. [http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/10/john-joseph-adams-to-edit-lightspeed.html John Joseph Adams to Edit Lightspeed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506215749/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/10/john-joseph-adams-to-edit-lightspeed.html |date=2016-05-06 }} Oct. 2009</ref> Wallace also published ''[[Fantasy Magazine]].'' Adams also started to edit ''Fantasy Magazine'' from March 2011. ''Lightspeed'' became an SFWA-qualifying market in July 2011.<ref>Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. [http://www.sfwa.org/2011/07/lightspeed-magazine-is-sfwas-newest-qualifying-market/ Lightspeed Magazine is SFWA's newest qualifying market] 2011.</ref> In November of 2011 Adams purchased ''Lightspeed'' and ''Fantasy Magazine'' from Wallace.<ref>Locus Online. [http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/11/john-joseph-adams-buys-lightspeed-and-fantasy/ John Joseph Adams Buys Lightspeed and Fantasy] Nov.