Issue 2
Summer 2026
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Further Light: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Latter-day Saint Tradition, Summer 2026, is the second issue of Further Light, a biannual speculative fiction magazine that seeks to explore the restored gospel through the medium of the human imagination. You can subscribe to receive updates about Further Light. Paid subscriptions include printed volumes and ebooks.
Contents (fiction unless otherwise specified):
- Editorial: “Allegory and Applicability” (essay) by Stephen Pulsipher and Neal Silvester
- “Emergence” by Steven L. Peck
- “Push the Button, Jennis” by Beth Buck
- “Introduction (Elias: An Epic of the Ages)” (essay) by D. A. Cooper
- First Light: Early LDS Speculative Writing: “Elias: An Epic of the Ages: Canto Three: Elect of Elohim” (poem) by Orson F. Whitney
- “God’s Ammunition Is Not Exhausted” (essay) by Theric Jepson
- “Meanwhile, in Paradise” (poem) by Maddy Peterson
- “Salt of Judas” by Eric James Stone
- “Martin’s Diabolus Ex Machina: A Hobbit in Westeros” (essay) by Nathaniel Givens
- “A Fright at the Opera” (serial, part 2 of Opera of the Abyss) by Lee Allred
- “Brine Under the Y” by Fendy S. Tulodo
- “Crossing the Boundaries of One Universe and Entering Another” (interview) of D. J. Butler by John D. Payne
- “The Beam” (poem) by May Swenson
- “The Archaemaji” by D. C. Wynters
- A Coven of Mormon Vampires: “Knock Knock” by Jesse Stanchak
- A Coven of Mormon Vampires: “All Are Alike Unto God” by Lenicka Lee
- A Coven of Mormon Vampires: “Blood of This Generation” by Scott Parkin
- A Coven of Mormon Vampires: “The Kovacs” by Phoebe English Carroll
- “Triforce of the Gods: A Sacred Realm of New Media” (essay) by Barrett Burgin
- “Repatriation” by Scott Hales
- “A Bedtime Story for a Winter Night” (poem) by J. S. Absher
- “And With Twain She Did Fly” by John D. Payne
- “Growing Up L’Engle” (essay) by Liz Busby
- “A Christmas on Kivu” (poem) by J. S. Absher
- Tempting the Saints: “Nettlewart’s First Patient” by Jenna Vaselka
Edited by: Liz Busby
Cover Artist: Eternity Stovall
Interior Illustrators: Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, Xochitlh Cabrera, after Martin Droeshout the Younger, Jacques-Louis David, Asher Brown Durand, William Faithorne, François Gérard, Kawanabe Kyōsai, Emily Larsen, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Louis Rhead, Michael J. Sorensen, Eternity Stovall, Kevin Wasden.
Published by Hemelein Publications.
Release Date: August 2026
Trade Paperback: $25.00, 978-1-64278-073-4
Ebook: $6.99, 978-1-64278-074-1