Lightspeed Magazine features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between.

In the October 2010 issue (our special "horror" issue), in our lead story, "Hindsight," Sarah Langan tells the story of an apocalypse-in-progress, a world in which the laws of physics no longer seem to behave properly, and a mysterious cosmic anomaly called Black Betty. The last remaining survivors have one last hope, but can the technological singularity defeat the threat of a gravitational one?

In "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back," author Joe R. Lansdale tells the tale of a mad scientist and his family who spend twenty long, hard years Down Under waiting for the war to end. By doing so, they manage to survive the end of the world, but when they go back Topside, they find a world very different than the one they remember -- a world in which even a rose is supremely dangerous... and not just because of its thorns.

Imagine you're awakened early from cryonic stasis aboard a starship traveling to a colony world where tens of thousands of starving colonists will die if you don't get there to help them. John R. Fultz's chilling "The Taste of Starlight" explores whether the lives of many outweigh the lives of few, as we experience the lengths the good Doctor Pelops is willing to go to in order to ensure his mission's success. Would you -- should you -- be able to do the same thing?

There are few authors in the world about whom you can honestly say "he needs no introduction." But when you're talking about Stephen King, that's most certainly the truth. "Beachworld," one of the horror master's rare forays into straight-up science fiction, follows the plight of the two survivors of a far-future interstellar spaceflight, who crash land on a harsh and unforgiving planet.
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