Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Prime Books (November 22, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1607013045

Official Description:

Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between. Each month, Lightspeed features a mix of originals and reprints, from a variety of authors – from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven”t heard of yet. Now, in Lightspeed: Year One, you will find all of the fiction published in Lightspeed”s first year, from new stories such as Nebula Award finalists, Vylar Kaftan”s “I”m Alive, I Love You, I”ll See You in Reno” and “Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro, and Carrie Vaughn”s Hugo Award-nominee “Amaryllis,” to classic reprints by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and more.

TOC:

• “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan
• “The Cassandra Project” by Jack McDevitt
• “Cats in Victory” by David Barr Kirtley
• “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn
• “No Time Like the Present” by Carol Emshwiller
• “Manumission” by Tobias S. Buckell
• “The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball” by Genevieve Valentine
• “…For a Single Yesterday” by George R. R. Martin
• “How to Become a Mars Overlord” by Catherynne M. Valente
• “Patient Zero” by Tananarive Due
• “Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro
• “More Than the Sum of His Parts” by Joe Haldeman
• “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee
• “The Long Chase” by Geoffrey A. Landis
• “Amid the Words of War” by Cat Rambo
• “Travelers” by Robert Silverberg
• “Hindsight” by Sarah Langan
• “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back” by Joe R. Lansdale
• “The Taste of Starlight” by John R. Fultz
• “Beachworld” by Stephen King
• “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
• “Faces in Revolving Souls” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” by Alice Sola Kim
• “Ej-Es” by Nancy Kress
• “In-Fall” by Ted Kosmatka
• “The Observer” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• “Jenny’s Sick” by David Tallerman
• “The Silence of the Asonu” by Ursula K. Le Guin
• “Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow” by Corey Mariani
• “Cucumber Gravy” by Susan Palwick
• “Black Fire” by Tanith Lee
• “The Elephants of Poznan” by Orson Scott Card
• “Long Enough And Just So Long” by Cat Rambo
• “The Passenger” by Julie E. Czerneda
• “Simulacrum” by Ken Liu
• “Breakaway, Backdown” by James Patrick Kelly
• “Saying the Names” by Maggie Clark
• “Gossamer” by Stephen Baxter
• “Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor
• “Woman Leaves Room” by Robert Reed
• “All That Touches the Air” by An Owomoyela
• “Maneki Neko” by Bruce Sterling
• “Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son” by Tom Crosshill
• “Velvet Fields” by Anne McCaffrey
• “The Harrowers” by Eric Gregory
• “Bibi From Jupiter” by Tessa Mellas
• “Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress
• “Scales” by Alastair Reynolds