{"product_id":"2940013722255","title":"Lightspeed Magazine, September 2011","description":"Lightspeed Magazine features all kinds of science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading off our September 2011 issue is Liz Coleman's \"Join,\" in which a man who has always felt alienated returns home to visit his family on Earth, and brings with him part of his new family--a newborn, parasitic alien.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever set in that vast emptiness. In \"Bubbles\" by David Brin, we get to know Serena, a lonely entity traveling the space between galaxies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD. Thomas Minton's \"Thief of Futures\" follows Eshram Kingston through a future Kuala Lumpur, where he is hired for the dirty business of stealing the future of a child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Ursula K. Le Guin's story, \"The Island of the Immortals,\" a traveler takes a vacation to an island where immortality might have been achieved. And it is--but at what price?","brand":"John Joseph Adams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073833615600,"sku":"2940013722255","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013722255_p0.jpg?v=1763584788","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013722255","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}