The Nebulas were presented at the 50th annual Nebula Awards Weekend, held this year in Chicago, Illinois, June 4–7. We’re sorry to say that “We Are the Cloud” by Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed, September 2014) did not win the Nebula Award for best novelette; that honor went to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s excellent story from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, “A Guide to the Fruits Of Hawaii.” Congrats to Alaya and to all of the other Nebula nominees, and of course congrats again to Sam for being nominated. Sam’s nomination brings Lightspeed’s lifetime Nebula nomination total to twelve since we launched in June 2010, and we’ve now lost twelve in a row. That’s right, folks: We’re perfect at losing! You can find the full slate of nominees and winners at sfwa.org.
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ICYMI last month, June saw the release of Lightspeed’s latest special issue: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! We brought together a team of terrific queer creators and editors, led by Guest Editor and best-selling author Seanan McGuire. We have eleven pieces of original science fiction by exciting SF authors, including Susan Jane Bigelow, Chaz Brenchley, John Chu, Felicia Davin, Amal El-Mohtar, and Kate Galey.
QDSF also has a special flash fiction section curated by Hugo-nominated editor, Sigrid Ellis, including flash from E. Saxey, Charles Payseur, Claudine Griggs, Erica L. Satifka, Bogi Takács, Sarah Pinsker, JY Yang, and others.
Our nonfiction editor, Mark Oshiro, has brought us some incredible essays and articles, and of course we have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, plus more than twenty personal essays by queer creators about their experiences reading and writing science fiction as a queer person.
All that and more! To learn more about the issue, visit our special Destroy projects website at destroysf.com.
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With our announcements out of the way, here’s what we’ve got on tap this month:
We have original fiction from Alison Littlewood (“Wolves and Witches and Bears”) and Nate Southard (“The Cork Won’t Stay”), along with reprints by Lisa Tuttle (“Replacements”) and Christopher Golden (“Under Cover of Night”).
In our latest installment of our monthly column, “The H Word,” author Paul Tremblay explores the political in horror. Plus, we’ve got author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a panel interview on horror podcasts, featuring Kc Wayland and David Cummings.
It’s another great month for nightmares, so thanks for reading!
