Asimov’s Science Fiction [v45 #1 & 2, #540 & 541] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Donato Giancola
2 • Contents Pages
4 • Editorial: A Magical Eire • Shelia Williams • ed
6 • Reflections: One Hundred Years of Robots • Robert Silverberg • cl
9 • Mars Rover, Curiosity • Jan Yolen • pm
10 • On the Net: Get it? • James Patrick Kelly • cl
14 • A Rocket for Dimitrios • Ray Nayler • na
43 • The Fear of Missing Out • Robert H. Cloake • ss
49 • In Memoriam: Mike Resnick (1942–2020) • Sheila Williams • ob
50 • No Stone Unturned • Nick Wolven • nv
66 • The Three-Day Hunt • Robert R. Chase • ss
73 • The Papier-Mȃché Girl • Jane Yolen • pm
74 • Table Etiquette for Diplomatic Personnel, in Seventeen Scenes • Suzanne Palmer • nv
99 • The Pig, Wilber, to His Grandsons • Leslie J. Anderson • pm
100 • Hunches * Kristine Kathryn Rusch • nv
113 • Humans and Other People • Sean William Swanick • ss
122 • Shy Sarah and the Draft Pick Lottery • Ted Kosmatka • nv
139 • Within You and Without You • Robert Frazier • pm
140 • Mayor for Today • Fran Wilde • nv
156 • I Didn’t Buy It • Naomi Kanakia • ss
161 • When I’m Thirty I Receive a Box Full of Your Steel Bones • Avra Margariti • pm
162 • The Realms of Water • Robert Reed • na
195 • Next Issue • Anon • pv
196 • On Books • Norman Spinrod • rc
Relic, by Alan Dean Foster; Random House, $7.99
Transformation, by James Gunn; ReAnimusPress.com, $3.99
The Death of the Universe, by Brandon Q. Morris; $14.99
201 • Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation • Peter Kanter • ms
203 • Thirty-Fifth Annual Readers’ Award Ballot • Anon • ms
205 • 2020 Index • Anon • ix
208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl