Hockaday is the managing editor of both Asimov’s and Analog SF digests. She’s also their poetry editor and makes all the selections, so it comes as no surprise she also writes poetry. This collection centers on two overlapping major life events, the death of her father and the birth of her daughter.
It is a deeply personal and introspective search for meaning; one of which many aspects will resonant with anyone who has experienced these life milestones. Hockaday’s lyrical phrasing is easy to access and remarkably honest.
Asimov’s Science Fiction [v46 #3 & 4, #554 & 555 Mar/Apr 2022] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Shutterstock 2 • Contents Pages 4 • Guest Editorial: From SF to Philosphy in Thirteen Steps • Kelly Lagor • ed 6 • Reflections: Across the Centuries • Robert Silverberg • cl 10 • On the Net: Blinded By Science • James Patrick Kelly • cl 13 • How to Construct the Elements • Mary Soon Lee • pm 14 • Thought Experiment: Magic, Science, and the Moon in Le Voyage Dans La Lune • Kelly Lagor • cl 20 • Mender of Sparrows • Ray Nayler • nv 35 • The Magpie Stacks Probabilities • Arie Coleman • ss 39 • Creation • Bruce McAllister • pm 40 • Venus Exegesis • Christopher Mark Rose • nv 53 • Dollbot Cicily • Will McIntosh • nv 81 • Self Portrait • F.J. Bergmann • pm 82 • Sailing to Merinam • Marta Randall • ss 89 • Quake • Peter Wood • ss 99 • The Robot Aloft • Ken Poyner • pm 100 • Aurora • Michael Cassutt • nv 120 • The Gold Signal • Jack McDevitt & Larry Wasserman • ss 127 • Maryon’s Gift • Paul McAuley • ss 133 • Rewinding History • Herb Kauderer • pm 134 • The Short Path to Light • William Ledbetter • nv 150 • Do You Remember? • Steve Rasnic Tem • ss 157 • Next Issue • Anon • pv 158 • Offloaders • Leah Cypess • ss 161 • Blimpies [S’hudonni Empire] • Rick Wilber • na 202 • On Books • Norman Spinrad • rc _204 • Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Robert Guffey, Macabre Ink, $17.99 • br _205 • Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $16.39 • br _206 • Burn-In, P.W. Singer and August Cole, Mariner Books, $16.99 • br 208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact [v92 #1 & 2, January/February 2022] ed. Trevor Quachi, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest, cover by Eldar Zakirov) 2 • Contents pages 4 • Guest Editorial: The (Sometimes) Reality of ‘I Told You So’ • Richard A. Lovett • ed 8 • Communion • Jay Werkheiser & Frank Wu • na 30 • Science Fact: The Science Behind Kepler’s Laws • Jay Werkheiser • cl 48 • The Lobster Pot • Tony Ballantyne • nv; illustration by Eldar Zakirov 64 • Splitting a Dollar • Meghan Hyland • ss 72 • Charioteer • Ted Rabinowitz • ss 77 • Orientation • Adam-Troy Castro • ss 82 • By the Lake Where We First Loved • Paul Starkey • ss 86 • Soroboruo Harbormaster Log • David Whitaker • flash fiction 89 • Special Feature: Science Fiction Meets Science Fact: The Robots of Ancient India • Brishti Guha • ar 94 • The Bumblebee and the Berry • M. Bennardo • ss 97 • In Times to Come • Anon • ms 98 • The Way Back • Jen Downes • ss 104 • Dix Dayton and the Miner from Mars • Liz A. Vogel • ss 109 • Doe No Harm • Louis Evans • ss 116 • Yellow Boots • Stephen L. Burns • ss; illustration by Tomislav Tikulin 128 • A Living Planet • Benjamin C. Kinney • ss 136 • Patience • David • ss 139 • Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation • Peter Kanter • ms 140 • On the Rocks • Ian Randal Strock • flash fiction 142 • The Alternate View: Fermionic Transversable Wormholes • John G. Cramer • cl 145 • The Middle of Nowhere • Rachel S. Bernstein • ss 150 • A Fistful of Monopoles • Raymund Eich • ss 153 • Wind Gets Her Own Place • Joe M. McDermott • nv 171 • Ham • Holly Day • pm 172 • Cloudchaser • Tom Jolly • nv; illustration by Eldar Zakirov 194 • What Once was Pitch Black • G.O. Clark • pm 195 • The Reference Library • Sean CW Korsgaard • rc _195 • Dead Silence, S.A. Barnes, Tor Nightfire, $26.99, hc • rv _196 • Sword & Planet, Christopher Ruocchio ed, Baen, $16.00, kindle • rv _197 • Assassin’s Orbit, John Appel, Solaris Books, $11.99, tpb • rv _197 • Far From the Light of Heaven, Tade Thompson, Orbit, $16.99, tpb • rv 198 • Guest Reference Library • Shinjini Dey • rc _198 • The Ninth Metal, Benjamin Percy, Mariner Books • rv _199 • Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn, Tor/Forge • rv _200 • The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw, Erewhon Books • rv _201 • Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, David Goodwin, Alex Hernandex, Sara Rafael Garcia ed, Mad Creek Books • rv 202 • Brass Tacks • [The Readers] • lc _202 • [letter] • Michael Goodline • lt _202 • [letter] • Joe C. • lt _202 • [letter] • Howard Mark • lt _202 • [letter] • David Gambs • lt _203 • [letter] • Tari Neustaedter • lt 204 • 2021 Index • anon • ix 207 • It’s Anlab Time Again [ballot] • anon • cn 208 • Upcoming Events • Anthony Lewis • cl
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Asimov’s Science Fiction [v46 #1 & 2, #552 & 553 Jan/Feb 2022] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Dominic Harman 2 • Contents Pages 4 • Editorial: Looking Backward • Shelia Williams • ed 6 • Reflections: Five Million Monkey Selfies • Robert Silverberg • cl 10 • On the Net: Good Bots and Bad • James Patrick Kelly • cl 13 • Robot Valentine • Peter Tacy • pm 14 • Snowflake • Nick Walven • na 52 • Welcome Home • Jendayi Brooks-Flemister • ss 59 • Word Soup • Anatoly Belilovsky • pm 60 • River of Stars, Bridge of Shadows • A.A. Attanasio • nv 79 • Speech Lesson • Robert Frazier • pm 80 • The Roots of Our Memories • Joel Armstrong • ss 88 • Unmasking Black Bart • Joel Richards • ss 99 • October’s Feast • Michèle Laframboise • nv 117 • Messaging the Dead • Betsy Aoki • pm 118 • The Beast of Tara • Michael Swanwick • ss 124 • Fasterpiece • Ian Creasey • nv 139 • Long-Term Emergencies • Tom Purdom • ss 151 • Next Issue • Anon • pv 152 • The Boyfriend Trap • Stephanie Feldman • ss 160 • Goldie • Sean Monaghan • na 195 • On Books • Peter Heck • rc _195 • Rabbits, Terry Miles, Del Rey, $28.00, hc * br _195 • Holdout, Jeffrey Kluger, Dutton, $26.00, hc • br _196 • Version Zero, David Yoon, Putnam, $27.00, hc • br _197 • The Minders, John Marrs, Berkley, $17.00, tpb • br _198 • The Rain Heron, Robert Arnott, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.00, tpb • br _198 • Hooting Grange, Jeffrey E. Barlough, Gresham & Doyle, $14.95, tpb • br _199 • The Saints of Salvation, Peter F. Hamilton, Del Rey, $39,00, hc • br _200 • The Future is Yours, Dan Frey, Del Rey, $27.00, hc • br _200 • The Unfinished Land, Greg Bear, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.00, hc • br _201 • Hollow, B. Carling, Vintage, $17.00, tpb • br _202 • Living Forever & Other Terrible Ideas, Emily C. Skaftun, Fairwood Press, $17.99, tpb • br _202 • The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems, Jane Yolen, Shoreline of Infinity, £6.50, tpb • br 203 • Thirty-Sixth Annual Readers’ Award ballot • Anon • cn 205 • Index of Vol. 45, 2021 • Anon • ix 207 • Statement of Ownership • Peter Kanter • ms 208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl
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Asimov’s Science Fiction [v45 #11 & 12, #550 & 551 Nov/Dec 2021] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Maurizio Manzieri 2 • Contents Pages 4 • Editorial: Thirty-Fifth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results • Shelia Williams • ed 6 • Reflections: A Bad Day for the Dinosaurs • Robert Silverberg • cl 9 • I am Apple Orchard • Mark C. Childs • pm 10 • On the Net: Super! • James Patrick Kelly • cl 13 • Tracks • Bruce Boston • pm 14 • Hānai • Gregory Norman Bossert • nv 36 • Muallim • Ray Nayler • ss 45 • And the Raucous Depths Abide • Sam Schreiber • ss 49 • Disrupted Patterns • Jennifer Crow • pm 50 • Dream Interpretation • Jack Skillingstead • nv 67 • The Gem of Newfoundland • Sandra McDonald • nv 79 • Chalk and Carbon • Marissa Lingen • pm 80 • Striding the Blast • Gregory Feeley • ss 90 • Czerby at Midnight [Lena Ke’aloha] • Shelia Finch • nv 104 • Your Memories are Sponsored by a Fossil Fuel Company • Matt Thompson • pm 106 • From the Fire • Leah Cypess • nv 120 • Bread and Circuits • Misha Lenau • ss 128 • Daydream Believer • R. Garcia y Robertson • nv 147 • A Separate Resonance • P M F Johnson • pm 148 • The Ones Who Walk Away from the Ones Who Walk Away • David Gerrold • ss 159 • Tau Ceti Said What? • Jack McDevitt • ss 165 • La Terrienne • John Richard Trtek • na 199 • Next Issue • Anon • pv 200 • On Books: Alternate Realities • Norman Spinrad • rc _200 • Or Even Eagles Flew, Harry Turtledove, Prince of Cats Literary Productions, $6.99 • br _201 • And the Last Trump Shall Sound, Harry Turtledove, Cat Rambo, James Morrow, Caezik SF & Fantasy, $9.99 • br _204 • Speculative Los Angeles, ed. Denise Hamilton, Akashic Books, $13.09 • br _206 • Unfinished Land, Greg Bear, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.00 • br 207 • The Tsuchinoko Always Lies • Megan Branning • pm 208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact [v91 #11 & 12, November/December 2021] ed. Trevor Quachi, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest, cover by Shutterstock) 2 • Contents pages 4 • Guest Editorial: Population and Genius • Howard V. Hendrix • ed 8 • The Malady • Shane Tourtellotte • nv 30 • Science Fact: Will Nuclear Power Save Us from Global Warming? • Christina De La Rocha • cl 37 • Mare Cognitum • Josh Pearce • pm 38 • A Sports Story • Brenda Kalt • ss; illustration by Eli Bischof 47 • From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 • Jo Miles • ss 52 • An Hour of Ames • Dan Reade • ss 59 • Biolog: Dan Reade • Richard A. Lovett • bi 60 • Never to Happen Again • Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg • ss 64 • Flash Fiction: Ars Brevis Est • Anatoly Belilovsky • ff 66 • No Stranger to Native Shores • Matt McHugh • nv; illustration by Christine Kornacki 81 • What We Forget • Bruce McAllister • pm 82 • The Transparent World • Robert Reed • ss 85 • Flash Fiction: The Library at Ecbatana • Timons Esaias • ff 86 • Flash Fiction: Constellating the Darkness • Howard V. Hendrix • ff 88 • The Alternate View: Kardashev Civilizations, Dyson Spheres, and Black Holes • John G. Cramer • cl 92 • The Kindness of Jaguars • Monica Joyce Evans • ss 102 • The Water Beneath Our Feet • Alice Towey • ss 109 • Wander On • William Paul Jones • ss 118 • Caoimhe’s Water Music • Mjke Wood • ss 124 • Moon Unit • Bill Frank • ss 131 • In Times to Come • Anon • ms 132 • Kepler’s Laws conclusion • Jay Werkheiser • sl; illustration by Kurt Huggins 206 • Brass Tacks • [The Readers] • lc _206 • [letter] • GySgt (Ret.) Peter J Peirano, USMC • lt _206 • [letter] • Howard Mark • lt _206 • [letter] • Cy Chauvin • lt _206 • [letter] • Richard A. Lovett, J.D., Ph.D. • lt _207 • [letter] • Robert Wilson • lt _207 • [letter] • Jack Ryan • lt _207 • [letter] • Dan Villani • lt 208 • Upcoming Events • Anthony Lewis • cl
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact [v91 #9 & 10, September/October 2021] ed. Trevor Quachi, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest, cover by Kurt Huggins) 2 • Contents pages 4 • Guest Editorial: The “New Normal” Trap • Stanley Schmidt • ed 10 • Kepler’s Laws • Jay Werkheiser • sl 82 • Science Fact: Orbital Nuclear Power System (ONPS): The Foundation of an Interplanetary Civilization • Donald Wilkins • cl 89 • The Maestro’s Final Work • Alan Ira Gordon • pm 90 • The Book Keepers • J.T. Sharrah • nv; illustration by Tomislav Tikulin 108 • Extrasolar Redundancy in the Nova Tortuga Model of Preservation for Dermochelys coriacea • Bianca Sayan • ss 117 • Quieter Songs Inland • Marissa Lingen • ss 120 • Last Dance at the Gunrunners’ Ball • Joel Richards • ss 126 • When Ada Is • Holly Schofield • ss 128 • The Alternate View: Where’s All the Antimatter? • John G. Cramer • cl 131 • Quantum Entanglement • Ken Poyner • pm 132 • Timing • Robert Scherrer • ff 134 • Room to Live • Marie Vibbert • ss 139 • In Times to Come • Anon • ms 140 • The Soul is Ten Thousand Parts • Chelsea Obodoechina • ss 144 • To Feed the Animals • John J. Vester • ss 151 • The Hunger • Marco Frassetto • nv 168 • The Silence Before I Sleep • Adam-Troy Castro • na; illustration by Kurt Huggins 205 • Don Sakers (1958–2021) • Anon • ob 206 • Brass Tacks • [The Readers] • lc _206 • [letter] • Cy Chauvin • lt _206 • [letter] • Joseph Kesselman • lt _206 • [letter] • Richard M. Boothe • lt _207 • [letter] • David Wolff • lt _207 • [letter] • Malcolm Dunn • lt _207 • [letter] • John Howard Brown • lt 208 • Upcoming Events • Anthony Lewis • cl
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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 2 • Contents Pages 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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Asimov’s Science Fiction [v45 #7 & 8, #546 & 547 Jul/Aug 2021] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Shutterstock.com 2 • Contents Pages 4 • Editorial: The 2021 Dell Magazine Awards • Shelia Williams • ed 6 • Reflections: Memories of the Space Age • Robert Silverberg • cl 10 • On the Net: The Tech that SF Made • James Patrick Kelly • cl 14 • The Prisoner’s Cinema • Gregory Norman Bossert • nv 37 • Alien Ball • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • ss 47 • Recipe for Time Travel in Case We Lose Each Other • Kristian Macaron • pm 48 Philly Killed His Car • Will McIntosh • nv 63 • Failed Space Colonists • Herb Kauderer • pm 64 • Seed Star • Fran Wilde • ss 74 • The Hazmat Sisters • L.X. Beckett • nv 91 • Giving Up the Ghost • Megan Lindholm • nv 103 • Holding Destiny • Jane Yolen • pm 104 • The Children of the Wind • Gregory Feeley • nv 120 • Huginn and Muninn—And What Came After • Michael Swanwick • ss 130 • Fibonacci’s Humors • Rudy Rucker & Brace Sterling • nv 151 • Ansibles • Ursula Whitcher • pm 152 • Tweak • Taimur Ahmad • ss 160 • Out of the Box • Jay O’Connell • na 199 • Next Issue • Anon • pv 200 • On Books • Peter Heck • rc _200 • Dead Lies Dreaming, Charles Stross, Tordotcom, $29.99, hc • br _201 • A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik, Del Rey, 28.00, hc • br _201 • City Under the Stars, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick, Todotcom, $14.99, tpb • br _202 • Persephone Station, Stina Leicht, Saga, $27.00, hc • br _202 • Damned Pretty Things, Holly Matter, Aqueduct Press, $19.00, tpb • br _203 • The Hierarchies, Ros Anderson, Dutton, $26.00, hc • br _204 • The Collapsium, Wil McCarthy, Baen, $16.00, tpb • br _205 • The Shaman of Karres, Eric Flint & Dave Freer, Baen, $25.00, hc • br _206 • Raven Nothing, Som Paris, Aqueduct Press, $20.00, tpb • br _206 • Genesys X, B.J. Graf, Fairwood, $17.99, tpb • br _207 • Nice Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas, Third Man Books, $16.95, tpb • br 208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact [v141 #7 & 8, July/August 2021] ed. Trevor Quachi, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest, cover by Tomislav Tikulin) 2 • Contents pages 4 • The Analytical Laboratory: 2020 Results • Anon • ms 6 • Guest Editorial: Hello to Maturity • John J. Vester • ed 9 • The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station • Marie Vibbert • na 58 • Science Fact: Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable • Richard A. Lovett • cl 64 • The Next Frontier • Rosemary Claire Smith • nv; illustrated by Eldar Zakirov 80 • The Heroes of the Nation • Brenda Kalt • ss 87 • A Daguerreotype of the Moon • Jennifer Crow • pm 88 • Mandatory Arbitration • Leonard Richardson • ss; illustred by Soo Lee 94 • Siliconisis • Tom Jolly • ss 98 • Seed Bombs • Juliet Kemp • ff (Flash Fiction) 100 • The Alternate View: Pulsars, Super-Massive Black Holes, and the Gravitational Wave Background • John G. Cramer • cl 103 • Special Feature: Taming the Serpent • Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. • es 110 • Tin Man • Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg • ss 116 • Humility • James C. Glass • ss 126 • Sample Return • C. Stuart Hardwick • nv 138 • Special Feature: Like School, But There’s No Recess: An Interview with Katie Mack • Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • iv 144 • The First Martian World War • Herb Kauderer • ff (Flash Fiction) 146 • The Last Farewell • Alan K. Baker • ss 149 • When I Think of My Father • Bruce McAllister • pm 150 • Rocket • Frank Wu • ss 154 • Reassembly • Audrey Ference • ss 162 • In Times to Come • Anon • ms 163 • Minnie and the Trekker • Raymund Eich • ss 174 • Long Day Lake • Joe McDermott • nv; illustrated by Tomislav Tikulin 198 • The Reference Library • Don Sakers • rc _199 • The Godel Operation, James L. Cambias, Baen, 288pp, $16.00, tpb • br _200 • Speculative Los Angeles, Denize Hamilton (ed), Akhasic, 272pp, $25.95, hc • br _200 • Screams From the Void, Anne Tibbets, Flame Tree Press, 231pp, $24.95, hc • br _202 • Creatures of Passage, Morowa Yejidé, Akhasic, 304pp, $25.00, hc • br _202 • A River Called Time, Courttia Newland, Akhasic, 464pp, $28.95, hc • br _203 • Arachne’s Exile, Christopher L. Bennett, eSpec, 238pp, $14.95 tpb • br _203 • Dragons, Ty Drago, eSpec, 386pp, $18.95, tpb • br _204 • The 18th Race Omnibus, David Sherman & Keith R.A. DeCandido, eSpec, 554pp, $34.95, tpb • br 206 • Brass Tacks • [The Readers] • lc _206 • [letter] • Richard M. Boothe • lt _206 • [letter] • Ken Gilbert • lt _207 • [letter] • Ken Winkes • lt _207 • [letter] • Daniel Pitterman • lt 208 • Upcoming Events • Anthony Lewis • cl
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