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Last December, Robert Silverberg reminded me that Asimov’s September/October 2025 issue would be the 500th physical edition of the magazine. Bob said, “It’s too late for me to mention issue 500 in a column, but I hope you’ll mention it yourself somewhere. Quite a milestone.” No matter how you look at it, the 500th or the 596th & 597th issue of a magazine is most certainly a significant milestone! Although I worked on the 57th, 58th, and 59th issues of Asimov’s, my name first appears in the 60th issue—January 1983. Altogether, my name has appeared in 440 of the 500