Further Light, Winter 2026

Issue 1
Winter 2026
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Further Light: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Latter-day Saint Tradition, Winter 2026, is the first 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, and paid subscriptions include printed volumes and ebooks.

Contents (fiction unless otherwise specified):

  • Editorial: “A Center of Gravity for the Fantastic” (essay) by Liz Busby
  • “Murder at the Rue Morgue” (serial, part 1 of Opera of the Abyss) by Lee Allred
  • “Harmony and the Problem of Evil” (essay) by D. C. Wynters
  • “Ivy” (poem) by Sadie Marie Hutchings
  • “Commitment” by Brian K. Lowe
  • “The Double-Snatcher” by W. O. Hemsath
  • “The Man Who Came Back from the Lunar Colony” (poem) by Orson Scott Card
  • “A Latter-day Saint Reading of CS Lewis’s Perelandra” (essay) by Cameron Price
  • “The Fallen” (poem) by D.A. Cooper
  • “Charity Never Faileth” by Jaleta Clegg
  • “Journey Before Destination, Faith Before Certainty: Experiencing Belief in Wind and Truth” (essay) by Liz Busby
  • “Young Hagoth Plays It Safe” by Theric Jepson
  • “Rented Room” (poem) by J.S. Absher
  • “Music of the Spirit” by Annaliese Lemmon
  • “Why Andor’s Grown-Up Heroes Matter to Faithful Adults” (essay) by Alan Hurst
  • “Carta del Cap. Robert Walton a José Smith por mediación de John Taylor” (in Spanish) by R. de la Lanza
  • “A Letter from Captain Robert Walton to Joseph Smith, Care of John Taylor” (in English, translated by Ryan Fairchild and D.A. Cooper) by R. de la Lanza
  • “From a Spirit to the One Possessed” (poem) by Orson Scott Card
  • “Voices from the Dust” by Jeanna Mason Stay
  • “Grandmother’s Rocking Chair (introduction)” by Kent Larsen
  • First Light: “Grandmother’s Rocking Chair” by Nephi Anderson
  • “Aslan or Qslan? Insights into Latter-day Saint Cosmology from the Sci-fi/Fantasy Divide” (essay) by Jeffrey Thayne and Jacob Ross
  • “Death” (poem) by Carol Lynn Pearson
  • “The Mothers” by Chanel Earl
  • Tempting the Saints: “The Enemy Has a Body—A Confidential Memo” by Jordan Lake

Edited by: Liz Busby
Cover Artist: Emily E. Jones
Interior Illustrators: Maddie Baker, Thomas Birch, C.C.A. Christensen, Gustave Doré, Edward Francis Finden, J.J. Grandville, isaxar, James Lewicki, and Kevin Wasden.

Published by Hemelein Publications.
Release Date: February 2026
Trade Paperback: $25.00, 978-1-64278-071-0
Ebook: $6.99, 978-1-64278-072-7