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For Asimov’s Science Fiction, it is the age of milestones. With the January/February issue of 2024, Sheila Williams surpassed Gardner Dozois’s tenure of nineteen years at the helm, to become this magazine’s longest serving editor. The September/October issue of 2025 was the five hundredth physical issue, even though the official numbers are out of step due to the “double issue” publication schedule. And, of course, the magazine will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with the March/April issue of 2027. I wasn’t a reader from the very beginning—and yet, I remember seeing the very first issue on a newsstand, with its red