Ignorance is Strength
Dystopian Triptych Book 1
Edited by Hugh Howey, Christie Yant, & John Joseph Adams
August 2020 [Buy]

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today’s most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH—before the dystopia—focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness, featuring all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Sigler, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Caroline M. Yoachim, Adam-Troy Castro, An Owomoyela, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Alex Irvine, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, plus a reprint by Dominica Phetteplace.

Burn the Ashes
Dystopian Triptych Book 2
Edited by Hugh Howey, Christie Yant, & John Joseph Adams
August 2020 [Buy]

We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. In Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451, that’s the motto of the Firemen who hunted down and burned books wherever they found them. Bradbury warned of a world where our literary history is taken from us. In BURN THE ASHES, some of the best science fiction authors working today continue to explore the dystopic worlds they introduced in IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. BURN THE ASHES features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Sigler, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Caroline M. Yoachim, Adam-Troy Castro, An Owomoyela, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Alex Irvine, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dominica Phetteplace.

Or Else the Light
Dystopian Triptych Book 3
Edited by Hugh Howey, Christie Yant, & John Joseph Adams.
August 2020. [Buy]

Into the darkness within; or else the light… When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In OR ELSE THE LIGHT, the third and final entry of THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH, over a dozen of the best minds in science fiction conclude their stories with a descent into darkness, or perhaps a ray of light. OR ELSE THE LIGHT—after the dystopia—concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair. OR ELSE THE LIGHT features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Sigler, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Caroline M. Yoachim, Adam-Troy Castro, An Owomoyela, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Alex Irvine, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dominica Phetteplace.

Resist: Tales From a Future Worth Fighting Against
Anthology benefiting the ACLU.
Edited by Gary Whitta, Hugh Howey, & Christie Yant
October 2019 [Buy]

The arc of history is unpredictable, and no one knows where it’s headed. But that’s never stopped speculative fiction writers from shouting out a warning. Join twenty-seven of today’s top science fiction authors as they write about possible tomorrow’s we hope to avoid, drawing on challenges ripped from today’s headlines. Hugo and Nebula Award winners, New York Times best sellers, some of the hottest names in Hollywood, all come together to share tales from a future worth fighting against. This is a project of passion for all involved. We hope that passion is evident and contagious. At least 50% of each sale of this anthology will go to the ACLU. To learn more about their mission, go to www.aclu.org. Welcome to the Resistance. With stories by: Saladin Ahmed, Leigh Alexander, Violet Allen, Charlie Jane Anders, Jason Arnopp, Elizabeth Bear, Desirina Boskovich, C. Robert Cargill, Delilah S. Dawson, Kieron Gillen, Kevin Hearne, Hugh Howey, Laura Hudson, Jake Kerr, Sarah Kuhn, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, An Owomoyela, Samuel Peralta, Beth Revis, Madeleine Roux, John Scalzi, David Wellington, Troy L. Wiggins, Fran Wilde, Chet Williamson, Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu

Women Destroy Science Fiction!
Edited by Christie Yant
June 2014
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
NPR’s Book Concierge Best Books of 2014

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. This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women. Guest-edited by long-time LIGHTSPEED assistant editor Christie Yant, our Women Destroy Science Fiction! Issue contains eleven all-new, original science fiction short stories, plus four short story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of fifteen flash fiction stories. In addition to all that goodness, we also have more than two dozen personal essays by women talking about their experiences reading and writing science fiction, plus seven in-depth nonfiction articles. More than 100 women were involved in this project.

Learn more about Lightspeed’s other Destroy! projects at https://destroysf.com