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The satisfying thump you’ll hear next month is the arrival of our outstanding October/November double issue in your home’s mailbox. We’ve done our best to cram the 240 pages of it to the breaking point, starting with not one, but two striking novellas by two of your favorite Asimov’s authors. Our first, by Nebula and Hugo award-winning dynamo Nancy Kress, concerns the bizarre goings-on in a managed care home where the elderly residents are unsure whether the startling effects of “The Erdmann Nexus” are age specific, scientific, or metaphysic! Next, Hugo winner Robert Reed returns with a claustrophobic, troubling meditation on justice and the lengths frightened government interrogators are willing to go to find the “Truth” according to an imprisoned terrorist from the future. We’re sure this will be considered one of 2008’s most talked-about and controversial stories.
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Peter Higgins, making his impressive Asimov’s debut, presents a haunting tale, reminiscent of the best of Tanith Lee, about a naval officer who hears a lot more than expected while “Listening for Submarines”; the acclaimed Gord Sellar returns with “Dhuluma No More,” a counterpoint to Robert Reed’s novella from the perspective of a desperate African terrorist in an uncertain future; Ian R. MacLeod presents a striking reversal of British history, recounting the bloody affair of “The English Mutiny”; Brandon Sanderson, the young talent currently completing the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, pens his debut for Asimov’s, an action-packed SF novelette, “Defending Elysium”; Jack Skillingstead entertainingly explains why someone left a “Cat in the Rain”; Leslie What returns with a charming piece about the trouble a bottomless wallet may cause when “Money Is No Object”; and Sara Genge, making her Asimov’s debut, treats us to a sad day in the life of some unusual aliens in “Prayers for an Egg.”
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Robert Silverberg honors Murray Leinster’s fecund imagination by “Beaming It Down” in his “Reflections” column; James Patrick Kelly examines various “Alternativities” in “On the Net”; Norman Spinrad predicts a future of “Post-Genre Speculative Fiction” in “On Books”; plus an array of poetry. Look for our October/November double issue at your newsstand on September 2, 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. We’re also now available on Amazon.com’s Kindle!
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new stories by Nancy Kress, Brian Stableford, Chris Beckett, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Tim Sullivan, Melanie Tem & Steve Rasnick Tem, Carol Emshwiller, Jack McDevitt, Larry Niven, Geoffrey A. Landis, Jerry Oltion, David Ira Cleary, Steven Utley, and many others. . . .
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