Lightspeed
Collects short stories from Lightspeed, the online science fiction magazine.

Contains:
I'm alive, I love you, I'll see you in Reno / Vylar Kaftan --
The Cassandra project / Jack McDevitt --
Cats in victory / David Barr Kirtley --
Amaryllis / Carrie Vaughn --
No time like the present / Carol Emshwiller --
Manumission / Tobias S. Buckell --
The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball / Genevieve Valentine --
" ... For a single yesterday" / George R.R. Martin --
How to become a Mars overlord / Catherynne M. Valente --
Patient zero / Tananarive Due --
Arvies / Adam-Troy Castro --
More than the sum of his parts / Joe Haldeman --
Flower, mercy, needle, chain / Yoon Ha Lee --
The long chase / Geoffrey A. Landis --
Amid the words of war / Cat Rambo --
Travelers / Robert Silverberg --
Hindsight / Sarah Langan --
Tight little stitches in a dead man's back / Joe R. Lansdale --
The taste of starlight / John R. Fultz --
Beachworld / Stephen King --
Standard loneliness package / Charles Yu --
Faces in revolving souls / Caitlín R. Kiernan --
Hwang's billion brilliant daughters / Alice Sola Kim --
Ej-Es / Nancy Kress --
In-fall / Ted Kosmatka --
The observer / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
Jenny's sick / David Tallerman --
The silence of the asonu / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Postings from an amorous tomorrow / Corey Mariani --
Cucumber gravy / Susan Palwick --
Black fire / Tanith Lee --
The elephants of Poznan / Orson Scott Card --
Long enough and just so long / Cat Rambo --
The passenger / Julie E. Czerneda --
Simulacrum / Ken Liu --
Breakaway, backdown / James Patrick Kelly --
Saying the names / Maggie Clark --
Gossamer / Stephen Baxter --
Spider the artist / Nnedi Okorafor --
Woman leaves room / Robert Reed --
All that touches the air / An Owomoyela --
Maneki neko / Bruce Sterling --
Mama, we are zhenya, your son / Tom Crosshill --
Velvet fields / Anne McCaffrey --
The harrowers / Eric Gregory --
Bibi from Jupiter / Tessa Mellas --
Eliot wrote / Nancy Kress --
Scales / Alastair Reynolds.
American Science fiction, English Science fiction, Short stories, Science fiction, american
John Joseph Adams, Vylar Kaftan, Jack McDevitt, David Barr Kirtley, Carrie Vaughn, Tobias S. Buckell, Genevieve Valentine, George R. R. Martin, Catherynne M. Valente, Tananarive Due, Adam-Troy Castro, Yoon Ha Lee, Geoffrey Landis, Cat Rambo, Robert Silverberg, Sarah Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, John R. Fultz, Stephen King, Charles Yu, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Alice Sola Kim, Nancy Kress, Ted Kosmatka, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, David Tallerman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Corey Mariani, Susan Palwick, Tanith Lee, Orson Scott Card, Julie E. Czerneda, Ken Liu, James Patrick Kelly, Maggie Clark, Stephen Baxter, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert Reed, An Owomoyela, Bruce Sterling, Tom Crosshill, Anne McCaffrey, Eric Gregory, Alastair Reynolds
Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author. || George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing *A Song of Ice and Fire* series of epic fantasy novels.

Critics have described Martin's work as dark and cynical. His first novel, Dying of the Light, set the tone for most of his future work; it is set on a mostly abandoned planet that is slowly becoming uninhabitable as it moves away from its sun. This story, and many of Martin's others, have a strong sense of melancholy. His characters are often unhappy, or at least unsatisfied - trying to stay idealistic in a ruthless world. Many have elements of tragic heroes in them. Reviewer T. M. Wagner writes, "Let it never be said Martin doesn't share Shakespeare's fondness for the senselessly tragic." This gloominess can be an obstacle for some readers. The Inchoatus Group writes, "If this absence of joy is going to trouble you, or you’re looking for something more affirming, then you should probably seek elsewhere."

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin || https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherynne_M._Valente || Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg || Sarah Langan (born 1974) is an American horror author and three-time Bram Stoker Award winner. Langan was also one of the judges for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award and is currently on the Board of Directors. 

**Source**: [Sarah Langan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Langan) on Wikipedia. || Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. || American science fiction writer || Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction. || "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a volume of poetry, Incredible Good Fortune, the novel Lavinia, and an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl. She lives in Portland, Oregon." - [source][1]


  [1]: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Biography-70Word.html || Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).
Source: Wikipedia || Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. || Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.

Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. The series is published by Simon & Schuster. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu) || Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor(a) (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for her Binti Series and her novels Who Fears Death, Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, Lagoon and Remote Control. She has also written for comics and film.

Her writing, which she describes as "Africanfuturism" and "Africanjujuism", is heavily influenced by her dual Nigerian and American heritage. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and Eisner Award. || Robert David Reed || Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. - [*Wikipedia*][1]

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling