Women Destroy Fantasy!

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, and folktales.

Funded as a stretch goal of LIGHTSPEED’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, we’re happy to present a special one-off issue of our otherwise discontinued sister-magazine, FANTASY (which was merged into LIGHTSPEED in 2012), called Women Destroy Fantasy!: an all-fantasy extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women, guest-edited by long-time Fantasy editor Cat Rambo!

Content available to read free on our website is linked below. All other content is exclusive to the complete edition, available as an ebook or trade paperback.

Table of Contents

Content available to read free on our website is linked below. All other content is exclusive to the complete edition, available as an ebook or trade paperback.

FROM THE EDITORS – Cat Rambo, Terri Windling, and Wendy N. Wagner

• Editorial, October 2014

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION – edited by Cat Rambo

• The Scrimshaw and the Scream by Kate Hall
• Making the Cut by H.E. Roulo
• The Dryad’s Shoe by T. Kingfisher
• Drowning in Sky by Julia August

REPRINT SHORT FICTION – selected by Terri Windling

• Miss Carstairs and the Merman by Delia Sherman
• Silver or Gold by Emma Bull
• The Abominable Child’s Tale by Carol Emshwiller
• The Glass Bottle Trick by Nalo Hopkinson

NOVEL EXCERPT

• Silverblind by Tina Connolly

NONFICTION – edited by Wendy N. Wagner

• Language and Imaginative Resistance in Epic Fantasy by Kameron Hurley
• Artists Spotlight: Women in Fantasy Illustration Roundtable by Galen Dara
• Artist Gallery with Julie Bell, Julie Dillon, Rebecca Guay, Elizabeth Leggett
• Women Destroy Urban Fantasy: An Interview with Carrie Vaughn and Kelley Armstrong by Sandra Wickham
• In Other Worlds: The Female Stars of Tie-in Fiction by Shanna Germain
• The Frog Sister by Sofia Samatar
• The Princess and the Witch by Kat Howard
• Read the Destruction: WDF’s Handy Guide and Recommended Reading List by Wendy N. Wagner

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS – edited by Jude Griffin

with contributors Laurel Amberdine, Lee Hallison, Liz Argall, and Sandra O’Dell

• Kate Hall
• H.E. Ruolo
• T. Kingfisher
• Julia August
• Delia Sherman
• Nalo Hopkinson

ILLUSTRATORS – art direction by Elizabeth Leggett

• K.A. King (“The Scrimshaw and the Scream”)
• Tara Larsen Chang (“The Dryad’s Shoe”)
• Sandra Buskirk (“Miss Carstairs and the Merman”)
• Ashley Stewart (“The Glass Bottle Trick”)
• Elizabeth Leggett (cover artist)

PODCASTS – produced by Gabrielle de Cuir

(Click “Listen” in top right corner of the story’s page to download or launch player)

• Miss Carstairs and the Merman by Delia Sherman
• The Glass Bottle Trick by Nalo Hopkinson