Contents
Sheila Williams Editorial: More Words About Some Words
Robert Silverberg Reflections: Rereading Fletcher Pratt
James Patrick Kelly On the Net: Is the Internet Broken?
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Dix”
In Memoriam: Kit Reed (1932–2017)
Mary Robinette Kowal “Artisanal Trucking, LLC”
James Van Pelt “Queen of the River: The Harbor Hope”
Peter Payack “The Evolutionary Race” (verse)
Rudy Rucker “Emojis”
Darrell Schweitzer “When the Time-Travelers from the Future Finally Reach Us” (verse)
Ray Nayler “A Threnody for Hazan”
Robert Reed “Love Songs for the Very Awful”
Jane Yolen “Is It True? It’s Not True” (verse)
Rachel Swirsky & Trace Yulie “Seven Months Out and Two to Go”
Sean Monaghan “The Billows of Sarto”
Todd Dillard “Palate of the Babel Fish” (verse)
James Gunn “The Waiting Room: The Pedia’s Story”
James Gunn “Attack on Terminal: The Pilgrims’ Story”
Robert Frazier “Your Clone Defies Aging” (verse)
Rich Larson “In Event of Moon Disaster”
Alexandra Renwick “Because Reasons”
Bill Johnson “Bury Me in the Rainbow”
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Erwin S. Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

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Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Jeff Brown
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Contents
Sheila Williams Editorial: A Few Words About Some Words
Robert Silverberg Reflections: Gog & Magog II by
James Patrick Kelly On the Net: Don’t Read the Comments
In Memoriam: Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017)
James Gunn Thought Experiment: Space Opera and the Quest for Transcendence
James Gunn “The Seeds of Consciousness: 4107’s Story”
James Gunn “The Final Commandment: Trey’s Story”
G.O. Clark “Room With a View” (verse)
Rudy Rucker & Paul Di Filippo “In the Lost City of Leng”
Jane Yolen “Writing Away Coincidence”
Ian Creasey “The Equalizers”
Cixin Liu “Sea of Dreams” translation: John Chu
Matthew Hughes “Solicited Discordance”
Jessy Randall “Annie Jump Cannon Cataloged Stars” (verse)
Jessy Randall “Annie Jump Cannon Goes Home from the Lab” (verse)
Robert R. Chase “Assassin in the Clouds”
Statement of ownership, management and circulation
Jane Yolen “Balance” (verse)
Allen M. Steele “Barren Isle”
S. Qiouyi Lu “Mother Tongues”
Bruce Boston “Synesthesia” (verse)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “The Rescue of the Renegat”
Josh Pearce “Objects in Space” (verse)
Paul Di Filippo On Books
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Thirty-Second Annual Readers’ Award Ballot
Index: 2017
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Erwin S. Strauss SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #1 & 2, whole #504 & 505, Jan/Feb 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Eldar Zakirov
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Feb. 20, 2018
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