Gavin Grant of Weightless Books writes with news of “our second esubscription, and it seems quite appropriate that it’s Lightspeed Magazine, a future-focused online monthly science fiction magazine edited by John Joseph Adams.” Lightspeed will be available in epub and mobi formats on the first of each month for $2.99 per issue. Subscriptions start with the current (December) issue and are $19.95 for 12 months.
Grant also notes that “we have also added all the back issues of Lightspeed. All their lovely previous issues (including stories by Alice Sola Kim, Carol Emshwiller, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Yu, Nancy Kress, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Catherynne Valente, Ted Kosmatka, Robert Silverberg, Yoon Ha Lee, Sarah Langan, Stephen King, and more)” starting with the June 2010 debut issue.
The way Weightless Books esubscriptions work is that, “once you subscribe a link is emailed to you. Click on the link (or paste it into your browser address bar) and it will start your download. The download links are live for three days and can also be found on the Thank You page. Then, every month, when a new issue is released, you will be automatically emailed a link.”
Contents of the December issue include:
Editorial by John Joseph Adams
Artist Spotlight: John Picacio by Erin Stocks
“In-fall” by Ted Kosmatka (fiction)
“Author Spotlight: Ted Kosmatka by Erin Stocks
Black Holes: “Starving and Misunderstood” by Pamela L. Gay (nonfiction)
“The Observer” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (fiction podcast)
Author Spotlight: Kristine Kathryn Rusch by Erin Stocks
Feature Interview: Greg Bear by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley
Related stories previously published on SFScope:
LCRW now offering electronic subscriptions (29 November 2010)
News of Lightspeed Magazine‘s debut, staff, and more (24 May 2010)