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 have original science fiction by Hao Jingfang ('Invisible Planets,' translated by Ken Liu) and Gregory Benford ('Leaving Night'), along with SF reprints by Maureen F.