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Asimov’s Science Fiction [v42 #9 & 10, #512 & 513, September/October 2018] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) fc. · 3-adica · Eldar Zakirov · cv 4 · Editorial: Thirty-Second Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results · Sheila Williams · ed 6 · Reflections: I Invent the Compact Disc in 1961 · Robert Silverberg · cl 10 · On the Net: X O · James Patrick Kelly · cl 13 · Vampire Fortuneteller · Bruce Boston · pm 14 · 3-adica [Sagreda] · Greg Egan · na 47 · Song of the Peat Hag · Jane Yolen · pm 48 · The Witch of Osborne Park · Stephanie Feldman · ss 54 · The Golem · William Shunn · pm 56 · The Huntsman and the Beast · Carrie Vaughn · nv 74 · R.U.R.-8? · Suzanne Palmer · pl 83 · The Grays of Cestus V · Erin Roberts · ss 89 · The Temple Necromanteion · Robert Frazier · pm 90 · DENALI · Robert Reed · nv 112 · The Callisto Stakes · Doug C. Souza · ss 119 · Ghosts of Robots · Herb Kauderer · pm 120 · Survivors · Sheila Finch · ss 127 · The Lovecraft Ritual · William John Watkins · pm Frisson: Disconcerting Verse Aut 1998 128 · The Wrong Refrigerator · Jean Marie Ward · nv 147 · Avocation · F. J. Bergmann · pm 148 · In the Sharing Place · David Erik Nelson · ss 157 · Best Served Slow · Leah Cypess · ss 163 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 164 · The Secret City [Moe Berg] · Rick Wilber · na 199 · Packing for the Afterlife · Mary Soon Lee · pm 200 · On Books · Norman Spinrad · rc _200 · Outside the Envelope · Norman Spinrad · ri _202 · A Man of Shadow, by Jeff Noon; Angry Robot, £8.99 · Norman Spinrad · br _203 · Submission, by Michel Houellebecq; Vintage, £8.99 · Norman Spinrad · br _206 · 2084: The End of the World, by Boualem Sansal; Europa Editions, $17.00 · Norman Spinrad · br 208 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl

Asimov’s Science Fiction [v42 #11 & 12, #514 & 515, November/December 2018] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest, cover by Donato Giancola) 4 · Editorial: Never Say “Rather Unlikely” Again · Sheila Williams & Michael Swanwick · ed 6 · Reflections: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cats? · Robert Silverberg · cl 8 · Your Clone Hones Telepathy · Robert Frazier · pm 9 · On the Net: We Are the Cat People · James Patrick Kelly · cl 13 · Thought Experiment: The History of Science Fiction, and Why It Matters · Allen M. Steele · ar 18 · Water and Diamond [Quantum Magician Universe] · Derek Künsken · nv; originally published in Chinese by the Future Affairs Administration. 35 · The Language of Water · Jane Yolen · pm 36 · Stormdiver · Nick Wolven · nv 49 · The Gift · Julie Novakova · nv 67 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 68 · Incident at San Juan Bautista · Ray Nayler · ss 76 · Joyride [Diving Universe] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · na 106 · Pregnancy as a Location in Space-Time [How to Mars Universe] · David Ebenbach · ss 115 · Theories of Flight · Linda Nagata · ss 127 · In Memoriam: Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) · Anon. · ob 128 · Parallel Military Cultural Evolution in a Non-Human Society · Tom Purdom · nv 151 · This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things · Suzanne Palmer · pm 152 · What I Am · William Ledbetter · vi 154 · Girl with a Curl [Rylla of Callisto] · R. Garcia y Robertson · na 199 · Echoes of Light from Orbit · Megan Engelhardt · pm 200 · On Books · Peter Heck · rc _200 · The Delirium Brief, by Charles Stross; Tor, $24.99, hc, ISBN: 978-0-7653-9466-8 · Peter Heck · br _201 · Tarnished City, by Vic James; Del Rey, $25.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-425-28412-4 · Peter Heck · br _201 · After On, by Rob Reid; Del Rey, $28,00, hc, ISBN: 971-101-88270-2 · Peter Heck · br _202 · The Last One, by Alexandra Oliva; Ballantine, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-101-96683-9 · Peter Heck · br _203 · Bannerless, by Carrie Vaughn; Mariner Books, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-0-544-94730-6 · Peter Heck · br _204 · Flotsam, by R.J. Theodore; Parvus, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-0-9975513-6-1 · Peter Heck · br _204 · The Sky Is Yours, by Chandler Klang Smith; Hogarth, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-451-49626-3 · Peter Heck · br _205 · Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead, ed. Gordon Van Gelder; OR Books, $22.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-68219-126-2 · Peter Heck · br _205 · Science Fiction for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads, ed. Tom Easton and Judith K. Dial; Fantastic Books, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5154-1025-6 · Peter Heck · br _206 · Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction, by Edward M. Lerner; Phoenix Pick, $34.99, hc, ISBN: 978-1-61242-369-2 · Peter Heck · br _206 · The Future of War: A History, By Lawrence Freedman; Public Affairs, $30.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-61039-305-8 · Peter Heck · br 208 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl

Asimov’s Science Fiction [v43 #1 & 2, #516 & 517, January/February 2019] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest, cover by Michael Whelan) 4 · Editorial: Just Deserts · Sheila Williams · ed 6 · Reflections: Looking Backward · Robert Silverberg · cl 9 · The Moral of the Double Slit Experiment · Michael Meyerhofer · pm; given as by Michael Meyerhoffer in Table of Contents. 10 · On the Net: Cosmologist, Space Traveler, Hero · James Patrick Kelly · cl [Stephen Hawking] 14 · How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots [Sere Glagolit] · Alexander Jablokov · na 48 · Credit to My Nation · Sandra McDonald · ss 59 · Your Clone Meets a Dopplegänger · Robert Frazier · pm 60 · Written in Mud · William F. Wu · ss 73 · All the Difference · Leah Cypess · ss 84 · Ventiforms · Sean Monaghan · nv 112 · The Gorgon · Jay O’Connell · ss 121 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 122 · Salting the Mine · Peter Wood · ss 133 · Taking Icarus Home · Suzanne Palmer · nv 145 · Eclipse 2017 · Robert Borski · pm 146 · Neom · Lavie Tidhar · ss 151 · A Street Away · Jane Yolen · pm 152 · The Esteemed [Veritas] · Robert Reed · na 195 · On Books · Paul Di Filippo · rc _195 · Innsmouth: The Lost Drawings of Mannish Sycovia, Mark Nelson; Alaxis Press, hc, $30.00, 192pp, ISBN 978-1513619965 · Paul Di Filippo · br _195 · The Oddling Prince, Nancy Springer; Tachyon Publications, tp, $15.95, 288pp, ISBN 978-1-61696-289-0 · Paul Di Filippo · br _196 · Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel; Saga Press, hc, $27.99, 384pp, ISBN 978-1481481472 · Paul Di Filippo · br _197 · Moonshine, Jasmine Gower; Angry Robot, tp, $9.99, 320pp, ISBN 978-0857667342 · Paul Di Filippo · br _198 · DJStories, David J. Schow; Subterranean Press, hc, $40.00, 520pp, ISBN 978-1596068612 · Paul Di Filippo · br _199 · Master Assassins, Robert Redick; Talos, hc, $25.99, 460pp, ISBN 978-1-945863-19-6 · Paul Di Filippo · br _200 · Daughters of the Storm, Kim Wilkins; Del Rey, hc, $27.00, 448pp, ISBN 978-0399177477 · Paul Di Filippo · br _202 · The Tangled Lands, Tobias Buckell and Paolo Bacigalupi; Saga Press, hc, $26.99, 304pp, ISBN 978-1481497299 · Paul Di Filippo · br 203 · Thirty-Third Annual Readers’ Award · Anon. · ms 205 · 2018 Index · Anon. · ix 208 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl

Asimov’s Science Fiction [v43 #3 & 4, #518 & 519, March/April 2019] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) fc. · The Peacemaker · Eldar Zakirov · cv 4 · Editorial: Editor Extraordinaire · Sheila Williams · ed [Gardner Dozois] 6 · Reflections: Gardner Dozois · Robert Silverberg · cl [Gardner Dozois] 10 · On the Net: Gardner! · James Patrick Kelly · cl [Gardner Dozois] 14 · In Memoriam: Gardner Dozois 1947-2018 _14 · The Man Who Loved Science Fiction [Gardner Dozois] · Michael Swanwick · ob _15 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · Joe Haldeman · ob _15 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · Robert Reed · ob _16 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · Nancy Kress · ob _16 · Early Days [Gardner Dozois] · Jack Dann · ob _18 · Memories of Gardner [Gardner Dozois] · Mike Resnick · ob _19 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · George R. R. Martin · ob; excerpted from Not a Blog, June 17, 2018. _19 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · Jack Skillingstead · ob _20 · Gardner the Great [Gardner Dozois] · Allen M. Steele · ob _21 · Gardener [Gardner Dozois] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ob _22 · What Are You Doing New Year’s? [Gardner Dozois] · Tom Purdom · ob _23 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · Pat Cadigan · ob _24 · [untitled] [Gardner Dozois] · Connie Willis · ob 26 · The Peacemaker · Gardner Dozois · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Aug 1983 36 · Instantiation [Sagreda] · Greg Egan · na 69 · Tourists · Rammel Chan · ss 77 · Inhale, Exhale · Robert Frazier · pm 78 · Eighteen Songs by Debussy · Michael Swanwick · ss 83 · The Dogs of the Soviet Space Program · Christopher Cokinos · pm 84 · How I Found Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers [Harry’s] · Lawrence Watt-Evans · nv 98 · When Words Take Flight · Bruce Boston · pm 100 · Terrible Trudy on the Lam · Eileen Gunn · ss 106 · January March · Tom Purdom · ss 117 · Garbage · Marge Simon · pm 118 · The Starry Sky Over the Southern Isle · Zhao Haihong · ss; translated from the Chinese (“Nan Dao De Xing Kong”, Science Fiction World, May 2017). 123 · Robot Dreams · Jane Yolen · pm 124 · Transport · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv 140 · Isla Tiburón · Alex Irvine · ss 147 · The Lights Go Out, One by One · Kofi Nyameye · ss 159 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 160 · Mr. Death Goes to the Beach · Jack Dann · ss 166 · The Lost Testament [Sanctuary] · Allen M. Steele · na 200 · On Books · Peter Heck · rc _200 · Pride and Prometheus, by John Kessel; Saga, $27.99, hc, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8147-2 · Peter Heck · br _200 · The Coincidence Makers, by Yoav Blum; St. Martin’s Press, $26.99, hc, ISBN: 97801-250-14611-3 · Peter Heck · br _201 · Salvation, by Peter F. Hamilton; Del Rey, $30.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-399-17876-4 · Peter Heck · br _202 · Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett; Crown, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-5247-6036-6 · Peter Heck · br _203 · Street Freaks, by Terry Brooks; Grim Oak, $28.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-944145-20-0 · Peter Heck · br _204 · The Grey Bastards, by Jonathan French; Crown, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-525-7244-2 · Peter Heck · br _204 · Alternate Routes, by Tim Powers; Baen, $25.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-4184-8340-7 · Peter Heck · br _205 · The Bend at the End of the Road, by Barry N. Malzberg; Fantastic Books, $13.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5154-z1038-6 · Peter Heck · br _206 · Uncharted: Lewis and Clark in Arcane America, by Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt; Baen, $25.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8323-0 · Peter Heck · br _206 · Only Human, by Sylvain Neuvel; Del Rey, $28.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-399-18011-8 · Peter Heck · br _207 · The Cackle of Cthulhu, ed. by Alex Shvartsman; Baen, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8300-1 · Peter Heck · br 208 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl

Asimov’s Science Fiction [v43 #5 & 6, #520 & 521, May/June 2019] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) 4 · Editorial: Anthology News! · Sheila Williams & Emily Hockaday · ed 6 · Reflections: Our Shaggy Cousins · Robert Silverberg · cl 9 · Failing Masterpiece · Bruce Boston · pm Star*Line Win 2018 10 · On the Net: Fire the Canon! · James Patrick Kelly · cl 14 · Thought Experiment: Science Fiction Considers the Post-Human · James Gunn · cl 22 · Unfinished Business [Ship] · Bill Johnson · nv 50 · The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi · E. Lily Yu · ss 57 · Mother’s Day · James Sallis · pm 58 · The Memory Artist [Ten Thousand and One Worlds] · Ian R. MacLeod · nv; first published in Chinese by the Future Affairs Administration. 79 · Sacrificial Iron · Ted Kosmatka · ss 93 · Crane Wife · Jane Yolen · pm 94 · Never the Twain Shall Meet · Peter Wood · ss 105 · Distracted While Gardening · G. O. Clark · pm 106 · Chasing Oumuamua · Sean Monaghan · ss 119 · Terra Incognita · Fred D. White · pm 120 · Recrossing Brooklyn Ferry · John Richard Trtek · nv 145 · The Other SETI · David Barber · pm 146 · Not Only Who You Know · Jay O’Connell · ss 159 · Timeless Graffiti · Peter Payack · pm 160 · The Intertidal Zone · Rahul Kanakia · vi 163 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 164 · Gremlin · Carrie Vaughn · na 199 · Quantum String · Jenny Blackford · pm 200 · On Books · Norman Spinrad · rc _201 · Borne by Jeff VanderMeer; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10.20 · Norman Spinrad · br _203 · Zion’s Fiction ed. by Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem; Mandel Villar Press, $24.95 · Norman Spinrad · br _205 · The Body Library by Jeff Noon; Angry Robot, $12.00 · Norman Spinrad · br _206 · Rewrite by Gregory Benford; Saga Press, $27.99 · Norman Spinrad · br 208 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl

Asimov’s Science Fiction [v43 #7 & 8, #522 & 523, July/August 2019] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) fc. · Waterlines · Maurizio Manzieri · cv 4 · Editorial: The 2019 Dell Magazines Award · Sheila Williams · ed 6 · Reflections: Imaginary Voyages · Robert Silverberg · cl 10 · On the Net: Full Moon · James Patrick Kelly · cl 14 · The Work of Wolves · Tegan Moore · na 43 · All the Good Things That I Know · Robert Frazier · pm 44 · The Universe Within the Universe · Dominica Phetteplace · ss 50 · The Terminal Zone · Nick Wolven · nv 69 · Ardy’s Choice · Maggie Shen King · vi 71 · Tell Me What the Stars Sing · Leslie J. Anderson · pm 72 · Story with Two Names · Ian McHugh · nv 96 · The Ocean Between the Leaves · Ray Nayler · nv 108 · Fragments from the Library of Cygnus X-1 · Chris Willrich · ss 117 · The Ruined Library · Bruce Boston · pm 118 · The Disappeared · Leah Cypess · nv 139 · Creation Dark Matter Dating App · Sandra Lindow · pm 140 · Speaker to Emos · Harry Turtledove · ss 145 · Scary Scary Night · Peter Payack · pm; given as “Scary Starry Night” in the Table of Contents. 146 · Waterlines · Suzanne Palmer · na 199 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 200 · On Books · Peter Heck · rc _200 · The Broken Earth trilogy, by N.K. Jemisin; Orbit, $39.99, boxed set tps, ISBN: 978-1-316-52179-4 · Peter Heck · br _202 · How Long ’Til Black Future Month?, by N.K. Jemisin; Orbit, $26.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-316-49134-1 · Peter Heck · br _203 · Bright Ruin, by Vic James; Del Rey, $26.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-425-28419-3 · Peter Heck · br _204 · The Point, by John Dixon; Del Rey, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-101-96756-0 · Peter Heck · br _205 · In the Night Wood, by Dale Bailey; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-328-49443-6 · Peter Heck · br _206 · The Book of Magic, ed. Gardner Dozois; Bantam, $30.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-399-59378-9 · Peter Heck · br _206 · Fantasy for the Throne One-Sitting Reads, ed. Judith K. Dial and Tom Easton; Fantastic Books, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5154-2330-9 · Peter Heck · br 208 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl

Asimov’s Science Fiction [v43 #9 & 10, #524 & 525, September/October 2019] ed. Sheila Williams (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) 4 · Editorial: Thirty-Third Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results · Sheila Williams · ed 8 · Reflections: Rereading Shiel · Robert Silverberg · cl 11 · All the Weight · Holly Day · pm 12 · On the Net: Deep Reading · James Patrick Kelly · cl 15 · Surfing at Night · Peter Payack · pm 16 · In the Stillness Between the Stars · Mercurio D. Rivera · nv 32 · All in Green Went My Love Riding · Megan Arkenberg · ss 41 · Brambles · Jane Yolen · pm 42 · Charlie Tells Another One · Andy Duncan · nv 63 · Next Issue · Anon. · ms 64 · Messages · Sandra McDonald · nv 77 · Personal Space · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss 87 · The Celestial Body · Leslie J. Anderson · pm 88 · Escaping Amnthra [Diving Universe] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv 116 · When We Saved the World · James Sallis · ss 122 · Nine Hypotheses Concerning a Mysterious Lump Under the Rug on the Foyer Floor · Jenny Blackford · pm 124 · Then, When · Eric Del Carlo · nv 140 · Can You Watch My Stuff · Rich Larson · ss 144 · The Albatwitch Chorus · Stephanie Feldman · nv 157 · At the Old Wooden Synagogue on Janower Street · Michael Libling · ss 162 · Winter Wheat · Gord Sellar · na 199 · E.A. Poe’s Electro-Mechanical Raven · Kendall Evans · pm 200 · On Books · Peter Heck · rc _200 · The Road to Neozon, by Anna Tambour; Obsidian Sky Books, tp, $14.95, 208pp, ISBN 978-1732298002 · Peter Heck · br _201 · In the Night Wood, by Dale Bailey; John Joseph Adams Books, hc, $23.00, 224pp, ISBN 978-1328494436 · Peter Heck · br _202 · An Informal History of the Hugos, by Jo Walton; Tor Books, hc, $31.99, 576pp, ISBN 978-0765379085 · Peter Heck · br _203 · Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett; Crown, hc, $27.00, 512pp, ISBN 978-1524760366 · Peter Heck · br _205 · Summerland, by Hannu Rajaniemi; Tor Books, hc, $25.99, 304pp, ISBN 978-1250178923 · Peter Heck · br _206 · Alternate Routes, by Tim Powers; Baen Books, hc, $25.00, 288pp, ISBN 978-1481483407 · Peter Heck · br _207 · A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, by Kat Howard; Saga Press, hc, $25.99, 368pp, ISBN 978-1481492157 · Peter Heck · br 209 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl