Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018

Carrie Vaughn writes fantastic fantasy and science fiction, with books like Unfettered and Dangerous Women showcasing her skill. If you enjoy epic stories with strong characters, you'll want to check out her work.

Charles Yu is a writer whose work has been featured in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. He's known for his imaginative stories that often blend science fiction and fantasy elements.

Charlie Jane Anders is a writer whose work often explores science fiction and fantasy themes. You might know them from their contributions to The Best of Uncanny.

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the New York Times bestselling editor of more than forty anthologies, such as Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele)-https://www.johnjosephadams.com/about/

Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies. Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. The series is published by Simon & Schuster. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu)

Maria Dahvana Headley is the editor of The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing the magazine's standout speculative fiction. She's a writer whose work often explores fantasy and the uncanny.

Sam J. Miller is the author of The Art of Starving, a powerful work exploring themes of identity and survival. Readers will find his writing direct and impactful.

Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author of urban fantasy, science fiction and horror. She writes the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series and the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series under her own name, science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the children's portal fantasy "Up-and-Under" series as A. Deborah Baker. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and has since won multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awa...

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