Asimov's Jul/Aug 2018Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: The 2018 Dell Magazine Awards
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Terra Incognita
John Richard Trtek “The Hull Breach” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Listen, Watch, Read
Bruce McAllister “Leaving” (verse)
Ian R. MacLeod “Ephemera”
Amy Miller “Note to Our Guests” (verse)
Suzanne Palmer “Stone in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain”
Jane Yolen “Counting the Cost” (verse)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Lieutenant Tightass”
Michael Meyerhofer “The Big Bang Was Not” (verse)
Dale Bailey “Rules of Biology”
Richard Schiffman “A Love Poem” (verse)
Michael Cassutt “Unter”
In Memoriam: Mary Rosenblum (1952–2018)
Zack Be “True Jing”
Kendall Evans & John Philip Johnson “Lament of the Four Moons” (verse)
Octavia Cade “The Backward Lens of Compromise”
Leah Cypress “Attachment Unavailable”
Harry Turtledove “Liberating Alaska”
In Memoriam: Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018)
Jack Skillingstead “Straconia”
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Allen M. Steele “Starship Mountain”
Paul Di Filippo: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #7 & 8, whole #510 & 511, Jul/Aug 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Mycoolssites/Dreamstime.com
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Contents Linda Landrigan: Lights! Camera! Murder! (introduction) The Lineup Rebecca Cantrell “Homework” art by Ally Hodges Kevin Egan “The Movie Lover” Mark Lagasse: Mixed-Up Grandmasters (puzzle) Eve Fisher “Blue Moon” Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Hanging…

From Weirdbook No. 34: Dark humor abounds in Gregg Chamberlain’s “Bunnies of the Apocalypse.” A satanist, about to sacrifice a child to the glories of the dark lord, finds his young victim more resourceful than he…

Editor Alec Cizak and I are busy working on the next Pulp Modern, and it’s nearly ready. Just a few more tweaks and it’ll be off for a print proof. I’ll start on the Kindle and…

Aron Nels Steinke is one of my favorite indie cartoonists. He started out drawing mini comics and tabling at indie comic shows like Stumptown and Short Run. His first children’s book, The Super Crazy Cat Dance,…

From International Science Fiction No. 1 (Nov. 1967): From The U.S.S.R. Ilya Varshavsky’s “Perpetual Motion,” translated by S. Ostrofsky, is a light-hearted extrapolation on the societal roles of humans and robots, with characters like Spoon and…

From Weirdbook No. 34: In “Excavation” by Franklyn Searight, a lightning strike in Morris Clooney’s front yard seems to have triggered something. Over the coming months the earth rises to form a rectangular bed, a puzzle…

Contents Editorializing: Make Mine a Monster! Monster! Mail Daniel Best: The Mummy in Australia Monster!’s Spring Supernatual Stunner Dana Marie Andra: Inside the Outer Limits with Harlan Ellison & Robert Culp Stephen Jilks: Channel of Darkness:…

The fanzine of vintage men’s adventure paperbacks. Contents Justin Marriott: Intro Justin Marriott: Book Safari (JM’s latest PB acquisitions) Frazetta’s Blazing Combat The Paperback Warrior: Quick-fire reviews from The Paperback Warrior gang. Tom Simon: Searching for…