Lightspeed Mag (Bluesky: @lightspeedmagazine.com)

A Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction & fantasy magazine edited by John Joseph Adams.

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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and more. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
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We did it! The LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is now fully funded! Thanks so much to everyone backed, shared, or helped spread the word. We couldn't have done it without you! There's still time to back it if you haven't already. https://t.co/wOtMOppoWS

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According to Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is trending toward only reaching 94% of our funding goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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According to Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is trending toward only reaching 94% of our funding goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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This week in NIGHTMARE: "An Unavoidable Consequence of..." by Kurt Fawver https://t.co/Ap3Rb1z0hV

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This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Guidance" by Martin Cahill https://t.co/BdLN6YzEZ3

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This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Until the Cure" by Marissa Lingen https://t.co/ztgu6Jx918

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We've reached 75% of our funding goal! In addition to subscriptions, we've got t-shirts, mugs, signed books, magazine archive stuff… We're still about $12,000 shy of our $50,000 target w/ 7 days remaining so please consider backing if you haven't already. https://t.co/wOtMOppoWS

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We just made this new GIF which shows you all of the amazing authors who agreed to write stories for us should the Kickstarter fund. We're closing in on 75% funded with 10 days left to go. Please consider backing if you can! 💖 https://t.co/wOtMOppoWS

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This Sat. our editor @JohnJosephAdams will be at Archon (Collinsville, IL). You can find him in the Bookseller's Row area selling anthologies and handing out Kickstarter postcards and hopefully chatting with cool people. If you're going, come say hello! https://t.co/iks4miLVBS

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This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Congratulations on your Magic Sword™" by John Wiswell https://t.co/lb5t7t6eAy

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This week in LIGHTSPEED: "The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana" by Adam-Troy Castro https://t.co/Ri1zcrx9vC

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Our friends at Apex launched their own Kickstarter today, and to celebrate the occasion, we did an "interview war" between both editors-in-chief—i.e., they interviewed each other. https://t.co/0GbaHnFx8r

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We just hit 50% of our goal with 20 days remaining. Thanks again so much to everyone who backed the campaign.

We also just added a new Add-On: Signed copies of The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson!

Back today: https://t.co/wOtMOppoWS

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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and more. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Jempo" by Thomas Ha https://t.co/9rUmICgjRi

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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Alterverse" by Sanjana Raj https://t.co/wf8qaDIk7z

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We've reached 40% of our goal & added a bunch of new rewards, including signed books by Chuck Wendig, Daniel H. Wilson, Ken Liu, Paul Tremblay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, Veronica Roth, Victor LaValle, Olivie Blake, P. Djèlí Clark, Seanan McGuire & Martha Wells.

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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and more. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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We reached & then surpassed 25% of our funding goal & are now closing in on $15K and 30%. 178 of you have pledged your support so far. Thanks so much to all of you for backing and spreading the word... and being a part of the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE story. https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and more. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "The Dragon, the Scarab, the Wolf, the Dragon" by Rhiannon Rasmussen
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This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Alterverse" by Sanjana Raj https://t.co/wf8qaDHMi1

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WOW, what a first day! In our first 24 hours, nearly 150 backers pledged more than $11K, putting us 22% of the way toward our goal. Several of our limited signed books and collectibles are already gone. If you haven't checked it out yet: https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and more. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k

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@JohnJosephAdams We're closing in on 100 backers! Pretty nice first day. Thanks for the all the support, both those who backed and those who shared the news. 💖

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The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and more. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖
https://t.co/wOtMOpoR7k