# author spotlight (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover author spotlight. Page: Feed: --- ## [Book Review: Forged in FIYAH by DaVaun Sanders, ed.](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-forged-in-fiyah-by-davaun-sanders-ed/) _2026-08-20 · Arley Sorg · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ Read more Black authors! Arley Sorg recommends a great anthology featuring eighteen original stories chosen by the editor of FIYAH magazine. ## [Author Spotlight: Adelehin Ijasan](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-adelehin-ijasan/) _2026-08-20 · Delia Cullity · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ The inspiration came from my own fascination with the true nature of reality and consciousness. I mean, what is this world we live in? How are seemingly psychic dreams possible? Does consciousness emerge from matter, or is it the other way round? Exploring those questions led me down the rabbit hole where ideas of panpsychism and gnosticism began to intersect in my imagination, and gradually a… ## [Author Spotlight: Joel W. D. Buxton](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-joel-buxton-2/) _2026-08-20 · Phoebe Barton · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ In terms of the idea for this story, the premise just kind of came to me all at once one morning over a coffee. I think it stems from an interest in what potential medical miracles nano-technology may unlock for humanity. And, of course, the inevitable question of who will have the cash flow to partake in said miracles. ## [Of All Who Dream](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/of-all-who-dream/) _2026-08-20 · Adelehin Ijasan · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ “God” is not the word I’d use. But it is the only one that suffices. There are all kinds of gods: the old and the new; the useful, the useless; the capricious and the dependable; the wrathful and the meek. They all had one thing in common—whether they were created at the dawn of time when hunter-gatherers huddled in caves and cowered at the crack of thunder, or they were engineered by men in… ## [What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union??](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/what-do-you-mean-the-nanobots-formed-a-union/) _2026-08-20 · Joel W. D. Buxton · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ “What do you mean the nanobots formed a union??” I asked the lawyer, biting my thumbnail. It’s an old habit, kept up well after I got the “Pro Nano Blitz Package,” as the ad called it. A muscular man in tight clothing explained: a quick, painless injection, then a couple days sick as a dog, then another month for the nanobots to multiply, specialize, and spread out through the body. Then: easy… ## [Book Review: The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-the-inevitable-undoing-of-zahara-douglass-by-leslye-penelope/) _2026-08-13 · Melissa A Watkins · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ Melissa A. Watkins suggests revisiting the Y2K era with this unique, multimodal tale of a lost twin. ## [Author Spotlight: Brooke Bolander](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-brooke-bolander-5/) _2026-08-13 · A Humphrey Lanham · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ What you see is more or less what’s on the page! If it was a longer work I’d obviously know more about her than what got written but all fiction (short fiction especially, IMO) is a little like making a friend on a flight: Generally you only know what they feel like telling you about their life before they stepped on the plane, and that varies from person to person. ## [Fragments of the Whole](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/fragments-of-the-whole/) _2026-08-13 · Brooke Bolander · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ Lise’s personas have no warning when the XexlCo Construct appears at the gate of her memory garden, smiling cheerfully at each of her personas in turn like a neighborhood milkman making his daily rounds. They watch the newcomer saunter by with open curiosity, moving aside to let him pass as though he’s a regular guest in Lise’s subconscious. There’s nothing threatening about him. He might’ve… ## [The Age of Cancer](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-age-of-cancer/) _2026-08-13 · Vajra Chandrasekera · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ This is our struggle. We scuttle on the sand before the softly breathing salt-burdened sea with the lichen on the rocks a bright poison green and great white butterflies screaming under a red sky while we dream of justice and watch the ghost of a long-extinct rat ancestor, an ancestrat if you please, you know the ones we mean, the toothy ones who built dams to block the rivers, the handsy ones who… ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/g38GEvSOrmvj) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [Editorial: August 2026](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-august-2026/) _2026-08-06 · John Joseph Adams · Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine_ Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month’s content!