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Shelia Williams & Michael Swanwick’s Editorial: Never Say “Rather Unlikely” Again
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cats?
Robert Frazier “Your Clone Hones Telepathy” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: We Are the Cat People
Allen M. Steele’s Thought Experiment: The History of Science Fiction, and Why it Matters
Derek Künsken “Water and Diamond”
Jane Yolen “The Language of Water” (verse)
Nick Wolven “Stormdiver”
Julie Novakova “The Gift”
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Ray Nayler “Incident at San Juan Bautista”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Joyride”
David Ebenbach “Pregnancy as a Location in Space-Time”
Linda Nagata “Theories of Flight”
In Memoriam: Harlan Ellison (1934–2018)
Tom Purdom “Parallel Military Cultural Evolution in a Non-Human Society”
Suzanne Palmer “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” (verse)
William Ledbetter “What I Am”
R. Garcia y Robertson “Girl With a Curl”
Megan Engelhardt “Echoes of Light from Orbit” (verse)
Peter Heck: On Books
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Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #11 & 12, whole #514 & 515, Nov/Dec 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Donato Giancola
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Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Thirty-Second Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: I Invent the Compact Disc in 1961
In Memoriam: Gardner Dozois (1947–2018)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: X O
Bruce Boston “Vampire Fortuneteller” (verse)
Greg Egan “3-Adica”
Janet Yolen “Song of the Peat Hag” (verse)
Stephanie Feldman “The Witch of Osborne Park”
William Shunn “The Golem” (verse)
Carrie Vaughn “The Huntsman and the Beast”
Suzanne Palmer “R.U.R-8?”
Erin Roberts “The Grays of Cestus V”
Robert Frazier “The Temple Necromanteion” (verse)
Robert Reed “Denali”
Doug C. Souza “The Callisto Stakes”
Herb Kauderer “Ghosts of Robots” (verse)
Sheila Finch “Survivors”
William John Watkins “The Lovecraft Ritual” (verse)
Jean Marie Ward “The Wrong Refrigerator”
F.J. Bergmann “Avocation” (verse)
David Erik Nelson “In the Sharing Place”
Leah Cypess “Best Served Slow”
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Rick Wilber “The Secret City”
Mary Soon Lee “Packing for the Afterlife” (verse)
Norman Spinrad: On Books
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Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #9 & 10, whole #512 & 513, Sep/Oct 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Eldar Zakirov
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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
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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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Jay Cole: Guest Editorial: A Semester with Isaac Asimov
In Memoriam: Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
Robert Silverberg: Reflections: Circe and Doctor Moreau
James Patrick Kelly On the Net: The Art of Algorithms
Bruce Boston “Unwritten” (verse)
Rick Wilber & Alan Smale “The Wandering Warriors”
Robert Borski “World on a String” (verse)
Cadwell Turnbull “When the Rains Come Back”
Janet Yolen “Pachyderm Thoughts” (verse)
Sue Burke “Life from the Sky”
Ken Poyner “Alien Found” (verse)
Paul Park “Creative Nonfiction”
Peter Wood “Riverboats, Robots, and Ransom in the Regular Way”
Nancy Kress “Cost of Doing Business”
John Richard Trtek “The Drone Nurse’s Lullaby” (verse)
Marc Laidlaw “A Mammoth, So-Called”
Jane Lindskold “Unexpected Flowers”
Sandra McDonald & Stephen D. Covey “Time Enough to Say Goodbye”
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David Gerrold & Ctein “Bubble and Squeak”
Norman Spinrad: On Books
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Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #5 & 6, whole #508 & 509, May/Jun 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Alejandro Colucci
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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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Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #3 & 4, whole #506 & 507, Mar/Apr 2018
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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