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One of science fiction’s greatest hidden treasures, Neal Barrett, Jr., returns with the lead story of our August issue. In “Radio Station St. Jack” Barrett directs his sights, as in many of his best stories, to yet another post-apocalypse, one in which Father Mac must somehow protect his radio station, his faithful flock, and the nun he loves, from Bob the Destroyer’s rampaging raiders, (and hopefully preserve his own tender posterior in the process). This is a wild and witty tale of a down-to-earth padre just trying to keep it together after the rest of the world’s fallen apart—we think you’ll love it.
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Acclaimed new writer Ted Kosmatka returns with a new hard-SF story about a laboratory experiment, once thought harmless, that just might rip the world apart under its “Divining Light”; Carol Emshwiller aims right for the heart-strings with her tragic tale of an innocent stranger in our strange land who goes by the name of either “Wilmer or Wesley”; Robert Reed warns that the local senior citizens you see harmlessly feeding pigeons in the park might not be what they seem in “Old Man Waiting”; Matthew Johnson presents a timely and uncomfortable portrait of the outsourcing woes of the future in “Lagos”; Jack Skilling-stead demonstrates that “What You Are About to See” might just be the result of an unseen alien agenda; and J. Chris Rock, making a strong Asimov’s debut, describes the perilous journey of “Lucy” along the murky seas of Saturn’s moon Titan.
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Rudy Rucker contributes a new Thought Experiments column that forcasts no less than the strange shape of future humanity after “The Great Awakening”; Robert Silverberg calls upon over fifty years of experience to present “Some Thoughts on the Short Story” in his “Reflections” column; James Patrick Kelly goes back to school with the intention of “Storming the Academy” in “On the Net”; Peter Heck presents “On Books”; plus an array of pleasant poetry by many of your favorite poets. Look for our August issue at your newsstand on June 24, 2008. Or you can subscribe to Asimov’s—by mail or online, in varying formats, including downloadable forms, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com—and make sure that you don’t miss any of the great stuff we have coming up!
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new stories by Nancy Kress, William Barton, Melanie Tem & Steve Rasnick Tem, Ian R. MacLeod, Stephen Baxter, Mary Rosenblum, Larry Niven, Geoffrey A. Landis, Robert Reed, Ian Creasey, Jack Skillingstead, Robert R. Chase, Will McIntosh, Steven Utley, and many others. . . .
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