Asimov’s May/June 2019

Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Anthology News!
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Our Shaggy Cousins
Bruce Boston “Failing Masterpiece” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Fire the Canon!
James Gunn’s Thought Experiment: Science Fiction Considers the Post-Human
Bill Johnson “Unfinished Business”
E. Lily Yu “The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi”
James Sallis “Mother’s Day” (verse)
Ian R. MacLeod “The Memory Artist”
Ted Kosmatka “Sacrificial Iron”
Jane Yolen “Crane Wife” (verse)
Peter Wood “Never the Twain Shall Meet”
G.O. Clark “Distracted While Gardening” (verse)
Sean Monaghan “Chasing Oumuamua”
Fred D. White “Terra Incognita” (verse)
John Richard Trtek “Recrossing Brooklyn Ferry”
David Barber “The Other SETI” (verse)
Jay O’Connell “Not Only Who You Know”
Peter Payack “Timeless Graffiti” (verse)
Rahul Kanakia “The Intertidal Zone”
Next Issue
Carrie Vaughn “Gremlin”
Jenny Blackford “Quantum String” (verse)
Norman Spinrad: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 5 & 6, whole No. 520 & 521, May/June 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: NASA/Shutterstock
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