New Magazine, Lightspeed

Another new Science Fiction magazine! Always good news. Also note that John Joseph Adams will be leaving F&SF (where he's currently Assistant Editor) to move to this role.

Prime Books is launching a new online magazine called Lightspeed in June 2010. Lightspeed will publish four science fiction short stories every month, along with an assortment of non-fiction features. It will be edited by John Joseph Adams and Andrea Kail; Adams will select and edit the fiction, while Kail will handle the non-fiction.

Lightspeed will focus exclusively on science fiction. It will feature all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between. No subject will be considered off-limits, and writers will be encouraged to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope. Each week, they'll post one piece of fiction and one piece of non-fiction. They'll debut with four original stories, and then move to two new and two reprint stories each month thereafter (all of the non-fiction will be original).