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Oversite - Lightspeed Magazine
Oversite - Lightspeed Magazine
“It doesn’t hurt, Gram,” Renata says. My sixteen-year-old daughter pulls up her t-shirt sleeve to show her bare arm, the skin summer brown and the muscle swelling slightly into smooth biceps, flawless. “I had it done when I was little and see, you c…
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Oversite - Lightspeed Magazine
Hapthorn’s Last Case - Lightspeed Magazine
Hapthorn’s Last Case - Lightspeed Magazine
My assistant said, “You have received an invitation from Holk Xanthoulian. He is embarking on a new menu and invites, and I quote, ‘a select coterie of the cognoscenti to sample its superlative assemblage of tastes, textures, and titillations.’” Or …
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Hapthorn’s Last Case - Lightspeed Magazine
Moonboys - Lightspeed Magazine
Moonboys - Lightspeed Magazine
You ask how my brother died on the moon that day, but that’s the wrong question. Ask instead what he spelled with his bootprints when we first stepped down from the platform. Ask instead the one song he listened to, the whole flight there. Ask why h…
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Moonboys - Lightspeed Magazine
Meet Me in Iram - Lightspeed Magazine
Meet Me in Iram - Lightspeed Magazine
We are familiar with gold, says Hume, and also with mountains; therefore, we are able to imagine a golden mountain. This idea may serve as an origin myth for Iram, the unconstructed city. The city has several problems. (1) It is lacking in domestic …
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Meet Me in Iram - Lightspeed Magazine
A Love Story Written on Water - Lightspeed Magazine
A Love Story Written on Water - Lightspeed Magazine
Bhi’ash was a king of the Axe clan. Truthful and courageous, he was renowned for having performed one thousand Black Horse sacrifices and one hundred Fire sacrifices. For his devotion, upon his demise he attained entrance to the heavenly realms and …
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A Love Story Written on Water - Lightspeed Magazine
Remaking History - Lightspeed Magazine
Remaking History - Lightspeed Magazine
“The point is not to make an exact replica of the Teheran embassy compound.” Exasperated, Ivan Venutshenko grabbed his hair in one hand and pulled up. “It’s the spirit of the place that we want to invoke here.” “This has the spirit of our storage wa…
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Remaking History - Lightspeed Magazine
Song Beneath the City - Lightspeed Magazine
Song Beneath the City - Lightspeed Magazine
For decades, the four plumbers had answered the call of old widows who’d dropped jewelry down their drains. Sometimes, the plumbers unscrewed the U-shaped trap under the sink, knocked out its splat of tobacco-colored crud, and fished out a golden ring. But other times, there was no reclaiming the lost diamonds and gold. They tumbled blind through the maze of pipes below the city, never to see the sun again. Whenever the plumbers left a house, the widows would ask, “Do you hear it too? The singing that comes rattling up from the pipes?”
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Song Beneath the City - Lightspeed Magazine
The Null Space Conundrum - Lightspeed Magazine
The Null Space Conundrum - Lightspeed Magazine
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” screams Aria. Her voice goes up raspily at the end of the exclamation, giving her the affect of a mewling cat, and she is embarrassed by the profound uncoolness of such a tone. She slams her fists on the Versa’s console to compensate, to physically demonstrate the depth and seriousness of her anger, causing the subtelar ship to rock violently in the warpwake. Don’t judge her; Aria Astra is usually a very cool person. She likes good food and knows a bunch about film and uses lots of swears and has great fashions.
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The Null Space Conundrum - Lightspeed Magazine