The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

Lightspeed Magazine features all kinds of science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:rnrnLeading off our September 2011 issue is Liz Coleman's "Join," in which a man who has always felt alienated returns home to visit his family on Earth, and brings with him part of his new family--a newborn, parasitic alien.rnrnMost of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever set in that vast emptiness. In "Bubbles" by David Brin, we get to know Serena, a lonely entity traveling the space between galaxies.rnrnD. Thomas Minton's "Thief of Futures" follows Eshram Kingston through a future Kuala Lumpur, where he is hired for the dirty business of stealing the future of a child.rnrnIn Ursula K. Le Guin's story, "The Island of the Immortals," a traveler takes a vacation to an island where immortality might have been achieved. And it is--but at what price?