Fortunately, we’d done a lot to give Lightspeed a good solid foundation since launching in June 2010, and so when I took over all I had to do really was keep the ship running the manner it had been.
It was a hard decision obviously I love Lightspeed, and it’s something I’m extremely proud of, but taking that step from editor to publisher is a big one, and is not without risk.
That meant selling the magazine to a new publisher, and since I was already editor, I was the first person he offered it to. Sean just needed to divest himself of some of his workload, as he is also running a publishing company (and has two toddler twins to boot!), so he decided that he needed to cut ties with Lightspeed. John Joseph Adams: The first major change would be the fact that I took over as publisher from Sean Wallace and Prime Books. Can you let us know how those changes came about and how the current situation is working out compared to last year?
Recently the magazine has gone through some major changes.
John is also the editor of the excellent online magazine Lightspeed.įar Beyond Reality: John, thanks for agreeing to do this interview! Your online science fiction and fantasy magazine Lightspeed had a spectacular first year, as anyone who takes a look at the Lightspeed: Year One anthology can see. If you read many science fiction and fantasy short stories or anthologies, you’re probably already familiar with the name John Joseph Adams, but just in case: John is the highly acclaimed editor of a truly impressive amount of genre anthologies, including (deep breath) Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom, Wastelands, The Living Dead, The Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, Federations, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Way of the Wizard, and what’s possibly my favorite genre anthology ever, the dystopian SF collection Brave New Worlds.
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