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Lightspeed Magazine, January 2011
Lightspeed Magazine is a monthly science fiction magazine that features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in
In our first fiction story of 2011, “Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow,” debut author Corey Mariani shows us a future in which connections are limitless, love can be quantified, and your social networking status is your greatest asset.
A lonely drug dealer’s strange relationship with space cucumbers leads to a tentative new friendship in “Cucumber Gravy” by Susan Palwick.
Turns out not all gorgeous, sparkling men are angst-ridden vampires. In Tanith Lee’s “Black Fire,” we see what happens when you let that gleaming stranger—who just happens to show up after you see a strange object soar across the evening sky—into your home.
And for our final story of January, we bring you Orson Scott Card’s “The Elephants of Poznan,” in which animals know more about saving mankind than we do.
In our first fiction story of 2011, “Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow,” debut author Corey Mariani shows us a future in which connections are limitless, love can be quantified, and your social networking status is your greatest asset.
A lonely drug dealer’s strange relationship with space cucumbers leads to a tentative new friendship in “Cucumber Gravy” by Susan Palwick.
Turns out not all gorgeous, sparkling men are angst-ridden vampires. In Tanith Lee’s “Black Fire,” we see what happens when you let that gleaming stranger—who just happens to show up after you see a strange object soar across the evening sky—into your home.
And for our final story of January, we bring you Orson Scott Card’s “The Elephants of Poznan,” in which animals know more about saving mankind than we do.
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First published December 23, 2010
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March 6, 2011
I can only vouch for one of the short stories indicated by this magazine collection of anthologies. The story "Cucumber Gravy" by Susan Palwick. This is about living, walking cucumbers. More specifically, "singing cucumbers who go gravy" and turn into mush. Obviously ample farfetchedness and personification play a key role. Loaded with a guesstimated thirteen pages of witticisms and exaggerative suave. Figments of the reverend's imagination? Find out for yourself. Well thought out, could be better.
January 1, 2012
Favorite story:
“Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow” by Corey Mariani
“Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow” by Corey Mariani
November 14, 2013
A great issue. None of the stories disappoints and my favorite had to be Susan Palwick's Cucumber Gravy.
May 24, 2014
Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow 4/5
Cucumber Gravy 2/5
Black Fire 1/5
The Elephants of Poznan 2/5
Cucumber Gravy 2/5
Black Fire 1/5
The Elephants of Poznan 2/5
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