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Our January/February 2025 issue starts the new year off with an exciting jolt. We have a huge new novella from James Patrick Kelly. “Moon and Mars” is a harrowing story about a group of young people who will soon crew an interstellar starship through a wormhole—unless complex human relationships or unsettling Earthly politics intervene!
Robert Reed returns with a Great Ship tale about “A Girl from Hong Kong”; Jendayi Brooks-Flemister offers us a situation that is anything but “Completely Normal”; Siobhan Carroll takes us on a journey in which birds spy, humans and aliens are unreliable, and “In the Splinterlands the Crows Fly Blind”; new author Nikki Braziel uses spaceships, time travel, and future technology to create “Through the Pinhole, or, the Origin of a Holostory”; another author new to Asimov’s, Beston Barnett, gives us an unsettling story about a scientist fighting an AI for survival that reveals “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain”; Matthew Kressel, who’s also new to the magazine, shoots us “Five Hundred KPH Toward Heaven”
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Moon and Mars
by James Patrick Kelly
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Mariska Volochkova settled onto a swivel chair that had started life as a bar stool over in North Robinson. “Surprise me,” she said. Now it served as the lone styling station for the base’s makeshift salon.
“I hate it when they say that.” Andra floated a styling cape over Mariska’s spacer uniform and snapped it behind her neck. “Okay, we’ll have to keep it simple since there’s not much to work with here.” She spritzed product onto Mariska’s head and rubbed it into her hair. READ MORE
In the Splinterlands the Crows Fly Blind
by Siobhan Carroll
When Sarah Hawksfeather told Charlie his good-for-nothing brother was missing, he wasn’t worried. It was just like Gabe to head out to the Grasslands and forget to tell his latest girlfriend he was going. Charlie told Sarah as much as he soldered a connection on a Vestigium motherboard. His hands were full of alien tech right now; he didn’t have time for Gabe’s latest craziness. READ MORE
