Queers Destroy Science Fiction! – Lightspeed Magazine Free Audiobook

Written by Lightspeed Magazine
Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, John lee, Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White
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Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue

Even in science fiction, supposedly the genre of limitless possibility, where everyone is invited to the adventure, heterosexual, heteroromantic, and cisgendered are considered the default, to the extent that everything else is “deviation,” and must be eyed with suspicion.

Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers Destroy Science Fiction! shows just how wide the spectrum of sexuality and gender identity can really be.

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Table of Contents

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES (edited by Seanan McGuire)

Emergency Repair – Kate Galey
(Influence Isolated, Make Peace) – John Chu
The Tip of the Tongue – Felicia Davin
Madeleine – Amal El-Mohtar
The Astrakhan, the Homburg and the Red Red Coal – Chaz Brenchley
Die, Sophie, Die – Susan Jane Bigelow
Plant Children – Jessica Yang
Nothing is Pixels Here – K. M. Szpara
Two By Two – Tim Susman
Trickier with Each Translation – Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War – Rose Lemberg

ORIGINAL FLASH FICTION (edited by Sigrid Ellis)

The Lamb Chops – Stephen Cox
Melioration – E. Saxey
Introductory Materials Part 2: A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices – Gabby Reed
Letter From An Artist To A Thousand Future Versions Of Her Wife – J.Y. Yang
Rubbing Is Racing – Charles Payseur
Mama – Eliza Gauger
Nothing Goes to Waste – Shannon Peavey
Increasing Police Visibility – Bogi Takács
Helping Hand – Claudine Griggs
Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind – Erica L. Satifka
In the Dawns Between Hours – Sarah Pinsker
Deep/Dark Space – Gabrielle Friesen

REPRINTS (selected by Steve Berman)

Black Holes – RJ Edwards
Red Run – AMJ Hudson
CyberFruit Swamp – Raven Kaldera
The Sound of His Wings – Rand B. Lee