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Wendy Wagner

Portland

Nonfiction Editor at Lightspeed Magazine

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Phoebe Barton

    Can you talk a bit about how this story took shape and what inspirations fed into it? A number of things inspired this story, beginning with my own feelings about artificial intelligence replacing artists. I chose to focus the story on the film industry because, in addition to providing work for many people outside the arts, it employs a variety of artists, including actors, writers, musicians, and more.

  • 1 month ago | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Phoebe Barton

    Can you talk a bit about how this story took shape and what inspirations fed into it? The story of the world creation according to the Bible is one that I find enthralling and rich. I have always been drawn to writing a story in the same vein. The story was supposed to be flash fiction, but after plotting it out I realised I had to go with the flow of the story.

  • 2 months ago | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |John Joseph Adams

    Welcome to issue 179 of Lightspeed Magazine!This month we’re serializing an original SF novelette by Sarah Langan: “Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep?” I won’t give away the plot, but go in knowing that it’s darkly critical of the current state of the world, a little bit heartfelt, and possibly contains a fun smidge of body horror. We think you’ll love it! Our other science fictional work includes two terrific flash pieces: “Meditations from the Event Horizon” from Deborah L.

  • 2 months ago | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Mayookh Barua

    What was the inspiration for this story? This was one of those stories where the first sentence, “We called it the monster because we could,” really did come first. I kept turning it in my head, and it sort of acted as a key that opened up the rest of the world to me. The sense of place and setting were also foremost in my mind as I wrote this piece. I was looking for somewhere to escape to, and emo volant (the restaurant) felt like the perfect hole-in-the-wall I could find comfort and solace in.

  • 2 months ago | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Rachael Jones

    Spotnik knows the humans haven’t forgotten him, because kibble still clatters into Spotnik’s bowl at six a.m. sharp. They’ve been gone long enough for all the vegetables in Hydroponics to shrivel up, limp and dead. Spotnik eats his kibble and licks up the crumbs, because he is a Good Boy, and Good Boys eat their rations. Even when the kibble goes soft and develops a white coat of mold and begins to stink so bad that he has to struggle to choke it down and fight to keep it from coming back up.