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• The Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto • essay by Steve Berman and Seanan McGuire
• 勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)^?Shìgū qǔhé (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)
  • short story by John Chu
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  勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)^?Shìgū qǔhé (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)
  Shigu quhe (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)
  • interior artwork by Odera Igbokwe
• Emergency Repair • short story by Kate M. Galey
•  Emergency Repair • interior artwork by Paige Braddock
• Trickier with Each Translation • short story by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
• The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal • novelette by Chaz Brenchley
•  The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal • interior artwork by C. Bedford
• The Tip of the Tongue • short story by Felicia Davin
• How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War • short story by Rose Lemberg
• Plant Children • short story by Jessica Yang
• Nothing Is Pixels Here • short story by K. M. Szpara
•  Nothing Is Pixels Here • interior artwork by Isabel Collier
• Madeleine • short story by Amal El-Mohtar
•  Madeleine • interior artwork by Orion Zangara
• Two By Two • short story by Kyell Gold [as by Tim Susman]
• Die, Sophie, Die • short story by Susan Jane Bigelow
• Melioration • short story by E. Saxey
•  Melioration • interior artwork by Steen
• Rubbing Is Racing • short story by Charles Payseur
• Helping Hand • short story by Claudine Griggs
• The Lamb Chops • short story by Stephen Cox (I)
• Mama • short story by Eliza Gauger
• Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind • short story by Erica L. Satifka
• Deep/Dark Space • poem by Gabrielle Friesen
• A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices • short story by Gabby Reed
• Nothing Goes to Waste • short story by Shannon Peavey
• In the Dawns Between Hours • short story by Sarah Pinsker
• Increasing Police Visibility • short story by
  Bogi Takács^?Bogi Takacs
• Letter from an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife • short story by JY Yang [as by J. Y. Yang]
• Black Holes • (2012) • short story by R. J. Edwards
•  Black Holes • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• Red Run • (2014) • short story by A. M. J. Hudson
•  Red Run • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• Cyberfruit Swamp • (1996) • short story by Raven Kaldera
• The Sound of His Wings • (1982) • novelette by Rand B. Lee
• O Happy Day! • (1985) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• Skin Folk (from "Something to Hitch Meat To") (excerpt) • short fiction by Nalo Hopkinson
• Author Spotlight: John Chu • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of John Chu • interview by Kate M. Galey
• Author Spotlight: Kate M. Galey • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Kate M. Galey • interview by Robyn Lupo
• Author Spotlight: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam • interview by Jill Seidenstein
• Author Spotlight: Chaz Brenchley • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Chaz Brenchley • interview by Rahul Kanakia
• Author Spotlight: Felicia Davin • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Felicia Davin • interview by Robyn Lupo
• Author Spotlight: Rose Lemberg • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Rose Lemberg • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• Author Spotlight: Jessica Yang • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Jessica Yang • interview by Arley Sorg
• Author Spotlight: K. M. Szpara • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of K. M. Szpara • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• Author Spotlight: Amal El-Mohtar • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Amal El-Mohtar • interview by Wendy N. Wagner
• Author Spotlight: Tim Susman • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Kyell Gold • interview by Rahul Kanakia
• Author Spotlight: Susan Jane Bigelow • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Susan Jane Bigelow • interview by Jill Seidenstein
• Author Spotlight: RJ Edwards • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of R. J. Edwards • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• Author Spotlight: A. M. J. Hudson • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of A. M. J. Hudson • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• Author Spotlight: Raven Kaldera • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Raven Kaldera • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• Author Spotlight: Rand B. Lee • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Rand B. Lee • interview by Arley Sorg
• Author Spotlight: Geoff Ryman • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Geoff Ryman • interview by Robyn Lupo
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by C. Bedford
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by Odera Igbokwe
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by Orion Zangara
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by Isabel Collier
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by Paige Braddock
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by Steen
•  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2015) • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• Book Reviews: June 2015 (Lightspeed) • essay by Amal El-Mohtar
•   Review: Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace • review by Amal El-Mohtar
•   Review: Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear • review by Amal El-Mohtar
•   Review: Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites by Hal Duncan • review by Amal El-Mohtar
• Interview: David Gerrold • interview of David Gerrold • interview by Mark Oshiro
• We've Made It to ... Magrathea? Why We as QTPOC Need to Hack Science Fiction's Improbability Drive • essay by Jennifer Cross
• Not Android, Not Alien, Not Accident: Asexual and Agender in Science Fiction • essay by Cedar Rae Duke
• Diversity in a Ghetto: The Marginalization of Modern Activism in Traditional Fandom • essay by Pablo M. A. Vazquez [as by Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez]
• Queers in a Strange Land • essay by Amber Neko Meador
• Science Fiction Failed Me • essay by Cory Skerry
• So Say We All • essay by Emma Osborne
• 1984 in 1980 • essay by Lee Thomas
• Speak Up, Speak Out • essay by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• How Queer Narratives Beat the False-Consensus Effect, Reminded Me That Diversity Existed, Exploited Human Psychology, Inspired Sex Positivity, and Helped Me Stop Worrying (but Not to Love the Bomb) • essay by An Owomoyela
• Spark • essay by Mark Oshiro
• Science Fiction Has Always Been Queer • essay by Sigrid Ellis
• Halfway in the Pool • essay by James L. Sutter
• All That Glitters • essay by Jill Seidenstein
• When We're Not There, We're Not Here • essay by Jerome Stueart
• A Gay Boy Gets His Genre On • essay by Anthony R. Cardno
• All Your Fic Are Belong to Us • essay by Rachel Swirsky
• Go Bisexual Space Rangers, Go! • essay by Cecilia Tan
• Drama Kid • essay by Cecil Baldwin
• Rewriting Our Default Settings • essay by Elizabeth Leggett
• Confessions of a Queer Curator • essay by Lynne M. Thomas
• Where Now Must I Go to Make a Home? • essay by Hal Duncan
• Destruction Is What Creation Needs • essay by Sunny Moraine
• Shiva and Octavia • essay by Sam J. Miller
• Creative Destruction • essay by Lisa Nohealani Morton
• Here's How It Goes • essay by Alyssa Wong
• Acceptance • essay by Arley Sorg
• The Books That Read Me • essay by Everett Maroon
• The Desperate Task: Making the Invisible Visible • essay by Christopher Barzak
• A World of Queer Imagination • essay by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
• The First Rule I Learned About Writing Queer Characters in Science Fiction • essay by Haralambi Markov
• Queers Digging and Destroying • essay by Michael Damian Thomas