LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, LIGHTSPEED is a Hugo Award-winning, critically-acclaimed digital magazine. In its pages, you'll find science fiction from near-future stories and sociological SF to far-future, star-spanning SF. Plus there's fantasy from epic sword-and-sorcery and contemporary urban tales to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folk tales. Each month, LIGHTSPEED brings you a mix of original short stories and flash fiction featuring a variety of authors, from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven't heard yet. When you read LIGHTSPEED, you'll see where science fiction and fantasy have come from, where they are now, and where they're going. The LIGHTSPEED podcast, produced by Grammy Award-winning narrator and producer Stefan Rudnicki of Skyboat Media, features original audio short stories 6-8 times a month.

Episodes

December 4, 2025 50 mins
This episode features "You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World" by Aimee Ogden (©2025 by Aimee Ogden) read by Mirron Willis, and "Reality Check" by Nancy Kress (©2025 by Nancy Kress) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "The Cold Burning Light of Her" by Sam W. Pisciotta (©2025 by Sam W. Pisciotta) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and "Operation: Grapevine" by Joel W.D. Buxton (©2025 by Joel W.D. Buxton) read by Scott Peterson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Visible Damage" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (©2025 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl" by Tina S. Zhu (©2025 by Tina S. Zhu) read by Si Chen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Beneath the Umdlebe Tree (Or: A Vegetable Love Story)" by Modupeoluwa Shelle (©2025 by Modupeoluwa Shelle) read by Mirron Willis, and "Elegy for Zephyr One" by Gene Doucette (©2025 by Gene Doucette) read by Stefan Rudnicki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "How to Setup Your Mourning Robot" by Angela Liu (©2025 by Angela Liu) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "In the Zone" by Lisa M. Bradley (©2025 by Lisa M. Bradley) read by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Thaw" by An Owomoyela (©2025 by An Owomoyela) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Drosera regina" by A.L. Goldfuss (©2025 by A.L. Goldfuss) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Dating Fortune" by Sean McMullen (©2025 by Sean McMullen) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Everyone Hates the Auditor" by Megan Chee (©2025 by Megan Chee) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "The Porniest Porn in Porntown" by Stephen Graham Jones (©2025 by Stephen Graham Jones) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Dirge and Gleam" by Micah Dean Hicks (©2025 by Micah Dean Hicks) read by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "At the Bottom of the Bonfire" by Martin Cahill (©2025 by Martin Cahill) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "O Mechfighter, O Starsinger" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (©2025 by Osahon Ize-Iyamu) read by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "City of One" by Stephen S. Power (©2025 by Stephen S. Power) and "Human Voices" by Isabel J. Kim (©2025 by Isabel J. Kim), both read by Stefan Rudnicki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" by Bogi Takács (©2025 by Bogi Takács) read by Janina Edwards, and "The Girlfriend Experience" by C.Z. Tacks (©2025 by C.Z. Tacks) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "The Place I Came To" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (©2025 by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko ) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Apeiron" by Cadwell Turnbull (©2025 by Cadwell Turnbull) read by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Beginning Before and After The End" by Jake Stein (©2025 by Jake Stein) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" by Kel Coleman (©2025 by Kel Coleman) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia (©2025 by Naomi Kanakia) read by Roxane Hernandez, and "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by  V.M. Ayala (©2025 by V.M. Ayala) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "The Dream Tourists" by Sarah Langan (©2025 by Sarah Langan) and "Savannah and the Apprentice" by Christopher Rowe (©2025 by Christopher Rowe), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Dad went out to get the milk" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (©2025 by Osahon Ize-Iyamu) read by Mirron Willis, and "Feast of Famine" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2025 by Adam-Troy Castro) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis" by David Anaxagoras (©2025 by David Anaxagoras) and "It Might Be He Returns" by Fatima Taqvi (©2025 by Fatime Taqvi) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide" by Leah Cypess (©2025 by Leah Cypess) and "You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb" by Paul Crenshaw (©2025 by Paul Crenshaw), both read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This episode features "Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective" by Spencer Nitkey (©2025 by Spencer Nitkey) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Domestic Disputes" by Naomi Kanakia (©2025 by Naomi Kanakia) read by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"How to Win Against the Robots" by Katherine Crighton (©2025 by Katherine Crighton) read by Judy Young, and "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (©2025 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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