Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 130 (March 2021) - Lightspeed Magazine, #130

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 LIGHTSPEED's 130th issue! Thomas Wolfe's novel popularized the phrase "You can't go home again, " and in this month's first piece of original science fiction, "Homecoming, " Claire Wrenwood sets out to prove he's still right, even when humanity has moved on to newer and stranger planets.
Adam-Troy Castro brings us a fresh new story of alternate lives in his dark tale "And Now A Preview of Coming Attractions." We also have SF reprints by Ken Liu ("Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit-Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts") and Yoon Ha Lee ("The Empty Gun"). We're happy to announce that P H Lee has a new fairy tale for us! In "The Bear Prince, " Dusty Boots returns with a story of inhumanity and power in the kingdoms of both men .