Asimov’s Science Fiction [v45 #9 & 10, #548 & 549 September/October 2021] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Eldar Zakirow
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4 • Editorial: Monstrous • Shelia Williams • ed
6 • Reflections: Roc of Ages • Robert Silverberg • cl
10 • On the Net: Dismal • James Patrick Kelly • cl
14 • Sleep and the Soul • Greg Egan • na
46 • The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards • Jason Sanford • ss
59 • June Lockhart’s Recurring Nightmare • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • pm
60 • Singular Days • James Gunn (his final story) • ss
68 • Breakfast with Jim • Kij Johnson • mm
70 • Shooting at Warner’s Bay • Michèle Laframboise • ss
81 • In the Library Annex • Bruce Boston • pm
82 • Filaments • Mercurio D. Rivera • ss
93 • Billie the Kid • Rick Wilber • nv
121 • Ikaria • Joel Richards • pm
122 • An Arc of Electric Skin • Wole Talabi • ss
127 • The Apocalypse and the Lake Mattamuskeet Gnat • Peter Wood • ss
138 • Your Luminous Heart, Bound in Red • S. Qiouyi Lu • ss
150 • The Bahnof Drive-In • James Van Pelt • ss
157 • Matriphagy • Naomi Kanakia • ss
159 • Helen Taussig (1898–1986) • Jessy Randall • pm
160 • A Blessing of Unicorns • Elizabeth Bear • na
200 • On Books • Norman Spinrad • rc
_200 • The Minstry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit, $28.00 • br
_204 • Space Station Down, Ren Bova & Doug Beason, Macmillian, $26.99 • br
_205 • The Hole, Brandon Q. Morris, Hard Science Fiction, $16.99 • br
207 • Next Issue • Anon • pv
208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl
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