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Denni Johnson’s failed Ascension has stripped her of the knowledge that would have been given to the One of All Sacred; she has all the psionic powers, but knows nothing of the history behind them. She must learn on her own, both on Earth and on the mysterious and beautiful homeworld of Trisanda....

Come to Trinidad, Colorado to witness the triptych of Natural Law, Religion and Eternal Love as a Zuni Pueblo artist vies with a cyberspace evangelist for one woman’s womb. Whose 2018 manifesto decreed the Indian War of Words? Who masterminded the Indian Casino Massacre of 2048? Who will take command in 2084?

Feels like you’re landing on a Normandy beach in ’44 with heroine WAC Captain Betty Tillerman, US Army. Advance with her and her father, a WW I legatee, through the civilian Eisenhower military-industrial complex of the ‘50s to witness her consumer disposition that manifests into her business...

A middle-aged journalist, bereft of love, while contemplating his own retirement, investigates the suicide of a prominent member of a large active adult retirement community. Willy Herbst uncovers the dark forces playing upon the victim while exposing the skulduggery of the cabal of volunteers running...

Worthington Rhodes, the powerful man behind the 21st century trans-continental bullet train, competes with equally-strong and charismatic woman archaeologist, Anna Ardmore, who strives to save her Southwest prehistoric Anasazi Pueblo ruins that lie in the train’s wide right-of-way

Thirty-something Toledo Squires, having made all that money, wants to do a “Bill Gates” for a little Mediterranean country emerging from the yoke of communism in 1991. Octogenarian Grace Templeton, dreaming of a royal adventure, wants to play a mean ”Mimi Rogers” Texas hold ’em in her Santa Fe retirement home. Altruism wins the day in a surprising dénouement.

Are Caribbean offshore trusts hiding U.S. wealth? Was billionaire Trevor Thomson killed in a mysterious fall from a Swiss train, did he jump, did he suffer a heart attack…or was he pushed? The answer is critical for Trevor’s stepson, Sam, a history professor in New Mexico and high-powered, beautiful...

In Marcel Proust in Taos, a Los Alamos physicist, Christopher, retires to Taos, New Mexico, with his cat Marcel Proust, to write a novel about nuclear terrorism. There he meets aspiring artist Marlene, from Germany, and the two fall in love. They open a microbrewery, using the brewing recipes passed...

You’ll cheer Millennials Josh Foreman and Maggie Sullivan as they put their heads together with African-American Ollie Davis—a protégé of the Civil Rights Movement—to remedy a modern malfeasance by staging a cooked poker game with the wrongdoer, who was bent on tarnishing the reputation of...

The chickens are in trouble again! The weasels are threatening war upon their home planet and the rest of the Federated Flock. Admiral Sprig sends the chickens on a diplomatic mission to acquire more allies. This assignment will send them across three worlds where they will meet quails, partridges...

A ship crash lands on a desolate planet, or so they thought. As soon as they arrive ashore they feel that exposure isn't all that they should fear.

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

The Prancing Jacana is the story of Caroline Parker, a thirty-something best-selling American author who has just published a detective novel set in Senegal, an Islamic country in West Africa. Problem is, her main character, Police Detective Salif Bampoky, is gay, in a country where homosexuality...

In these offbeat short stories, "Driftwood Houses" belongs squarely in the comic tradition of Florida Fiction. It exposes and celebrates the daily ironies, heartbreaks and triumphs of ordinary people as they fumble through the challenges of everyday existence. In a Key West setting...