Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 147 (August 2022) - Lightspeed Magazine, #147

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 147 of LIGHTSPEED! Our first piece of science fiction, "My Future Self, Refused, " asks a classic question: If you met your future self, would you be able to trust your own advice? Don't miss this time-traveling tale from Adam-Troy Castro.
New to our pages is writer Ruben Reyes, Jr, whose story "SyncALife" is about a service promising to ease the loss of a family member's death. It's a powerful mix of technology, familial trauma, and the poetry of war. Our flash SF piece is a tale of inadvertent teleportation: "The Disappearing Dream Engineer, " by Rati Mehrotra. Our SF reprint is from Mary Anne Mohanraj: "Among the Marithei." As for our fantasy offerings, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor returns to bring you a touching new short, "So, You Married Your Arch Nemesis .