Science Fiction

Our March issue offers two novelettes, quite different in some respects yet both dealing with mysteries, things that aren't what they seem, and familiar patterns in very unfamiliar contexts. Craig DeLancey's "The Ediacarian Machine" starts out as archeology, but the archeologists could never guess where it would lead. Kyle Kirkland's "Upon Their Backs" (which you may recognize as part of a familiar saying) also begins with an archeological air (or is it paleontology or anthropology?), this time ... more info>>

February being the traditional month of romance, we start the issue off with a novellette by Rudy Rucker and Eileen Gunn that treats us to the zany courtship of a lovely Southern California woman and her plugged-in and technologically turned-on "Hive Mind Man." In "Murder Born," Robert Reed's latest novella, an utterly engrossing mystery tale is blended with a remarkable idea. It's a future where murder victims may be returned to their families, but the price is high and mistakes happen.Elsewher... more info>>

A generation ago, a small group of humans fled Earth to make a new home. Because of a freak laboratory accident, they possess a gene that slows aging, and the rest of Earth would have turned them into lab rats in order to control the inheritable factor. The stars were already occupied, and the settlers from the spaceship Orion fought the aliens to create their own home in the stars--New Earth. Old Earth, under Chinese leadership, is expanding. They attacked the aliens and continue their expandin... more info>>

A young girl dreams of seeing the stars and meeting aliens. Her chance comes in the form of a project offering a college education, commissioning in the SAS Fleet, and a partnership with an alien. She successfully qualifies and wins one of the coveted ten positions. Of course everything comes with a price--the alien is a parasite that inhabits the body and mind, and is there for life. Is it a dream or nightmare come true--or maybe both?

Our January-February double issue is a big event in several ways: It takes advantage of its extra space to include lots of special treats that wouldn't fit in a regular issue, and it leads off with the opening of a new Robert J. Sawyer serial, Triggers. The title, as you'll see, has more than one meaning, but at the center of it all is memory: What is it, how does it work, and what triggers it? And, beyond all that, what happens if an unforeseen event allows--and forces--people to share memories... more info>>

lab explosion results in a group of scientists who now age very slowly. Long life doesn't seem like a problem, but Maria Presk knows their secret can't be kept forever. When it gets out, every government in the world will be interested and she, along with her associates, will be lucky if they're ever allowed out of a government lab again--or if they're allowed to live. There's no place on Earth where Maria and the others can be safe, so she comes up with an ambitious plan--they'll build a spaces... more info>>

Best-selling science fiction print author Travis S. "Doc Travis" Taylor and best-selling eBook author Darrell Bain have combined talents to produce a new science fiction thriller. Several alien lifeboats make it to earth in widely separated spots after their interstellar spaceship malfunctions. One of the aliens comes down near the home of Kyle Leverson, a former army intelligence officer and now a widowed science journalist. The aliens think they can never go home but they are able to convert t... more info>>

At 19, Nick tries to do a good deed and instead ends up with a demon's soul. He has powers and other demons are out to hunt him down. As he struggles to master his new abilities, Nick gets closer to Jenny Morgado, the girl he's long loved. Only now that he sees the world of angels and demons does he realize Jenny is a lot more than the girl he thought he knew.

Elizabeth Bear is well known to Asimov's readers. Two of her previous appearances, "Tideline" and "Shoggoths in Bloom," resulted in Hugo Awards for best short story and novelette. She returns to our pages with a knockout novella set in an exquisitely realized future India. Police Sub-Inspector Ferron and Senior Constable Indrapramit must look for clues both in the real world and the virtual if they are to track down a clever murder. "In the House of Aryaman a Lonely Signal Burns" is a tale you w... more info>>

The final book of the Apertures trilogy! The dream of a different alternity where Americans can begin anew has been a goal of Jan and Jani Jenkins almost since the first of the Apertures Era. Now they are working against time and selfish politicians to see it happen before the whole world goes up in flames. They are urgently ferrying colonists and equipment to a new earth that only they can reach, but often it seems as if the fates are conspiring against them and all they hold dear. But when the... more info>>

Cetaganda is another installment in the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally--apparently a suicide, but there are rumors--Miles and Ivan find themselves in the thick of it. Miles tr... more info>>

In the midst of Galactic War a new life-form is born--an AI starship. But with all its weapons and sophisticated programming, the sentient starship is not equipped for its greatest challenge--that of becoming the mother to the last three children of humanity. The deadly T'kaan soon begin the hunt again after they discover that the human race is not quite extinct. As Mother faces these impossible odds, she discovers that deep inside her massive memory systems she holds another treasure--a knowled... more info>>

A new Apertures novel by best-selling ebook author Darrell Bain. Betrayed by a new aperture former he is mentoring, unconscious from a head wound, Jan and his team are stranded in a hostile alternity, with enemy forces surrounding them and closing in for the kill? The exciting sequel to Apertures and the second book set in the Apertures universe.

Andrea Cort, Adam-Troy Castro's prickly but effective troubleshooter, returns to lead off our November issue in "With Unclean Hands," wherein she faces a particularly thorny interspecies problem for which her own past is uniquely relevant. But being especially well qualified does not mean a person will find a task easy. . . . Our science fact article comes from Richard B. Robinson, a researcher on the frontiers of a field that was new to me: "Repairing a Broken Heart: Beyond Electronic Pacemaker... more info>>

A special holiday issue sporting stories about the winter season has been a semi-annual tradition at Asimov's, and we're delighted that this year the holiday spirit returns to the magazine with a brand new novelette by Connie Willis. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll read this story on the edge of your seat as New York Theater comes alive and an aging Broadway star contends with a very unusual protogeé  in "All About Emily." New author Suzanne Palmer makers her Asimov's entrance with ... more info>>

Interzone is a bimonthly, award winning, science fiction and fantasy short story magazine. It contains original fiction and illustrations plus SFF/H related news and reviews of books, movies and DVDs. It is not celebrity oriented. This edition, #235 of July 2011, with stories from Mercurio D Rivera, Gareth Powell, Jon Wallace, Al Robertson & Matthew Cook has the text of the print edition but some of the graphics and advertisements are not present, current printed issue 237, Nov 2011. This issue ... more info>>

Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the planet of Jackson's Whole, while rescuing his brother. Thanks to quick thinking on the part of his staff, and incredible artistry on the part of the specialist who revived him, his first death won't be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, h... more info>>

Four groups of experts are competing for a lucrative contract to transform Jupiter's moon Europa into a planet capable of supporting life; each tries to gain an advantage by purchasing, and sometimes trading, the cloning rights to the scientific masters of history.

Our December issue starts off with a spectacular Bob Eggleton cover for Brad R. Torgersen's novelette, "Ray of Light," which is one of the more unusual post-apocalypse stories you're likely to read. Given a catastrophe big enough to force practically everybody into hiding, one of the central and most important questions is, "When can you go back out?" It's especially difficult when your hiding place is as unusual as this one, and when you have to stay there long enough to start forgetting what's... more info>>

Mother, Jaric and Kyle, along with their newfound friends, continue their search for other survivors of the human race who may have escaped the T'kaan genocide. They travel to the farthest known worlds of the universe, but fail to discover the first solid clue that anyone else survived. After many long months of fruitless searching, their hopes again begin to fade. But there is conflict even within Mother's family. Kyle and Jaric bitterly resent Becky's clone. They cruelly taunt her and treat h... more info>>

Ilona Carrus and Damon Adlus are the final competitors in the Championship Dive, a contest to get as close to the event horizon of a black hole as possible. But when Ilona comes up with a way to get closer than anyone ever has before, Damon chooses to take the most dangerous risk of them all...

Interzone is a bimonthly, award winning, science fiction and fantasy short story magazine in its 29th year of publication. It contains original fiction and illustrations plus SFF/H related news and reviews of books, movies and DVDs. It is not celebrity oriented. This edition, #234 of May 2011, with stories from Will McIntosh, Jason Sanford & Suzanne Palmer, has the text of the print edition but some of the graphics and advertisements are not present, next printed issue 237 due Nov 14. The magazi... more info>>

Twenty-three year old Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan challenges the criminal underground on the planet Jackson's Whole to rescue a research scientist. [Publisher's Note: Labyrinth was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the August 1989 issue of Analog. It was then included in the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short "framing story" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering... more info>>

[Sequel to "The Warrior's Apprentice"] Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military... more info>>

Twins Jan and Jani discover the existence of alternate Earths in a most unusual way. The first exploring party from another alternity immediately recognize that the twins have a powerful but unrealized talent for creating apertures into alternate worlds, but the twins suddenly realize they can spot an aperture and the person who formed it at a considerable distance, a talent they didn't know they had. The explorers from the Pankan Empire on another Earth have never seen the like of the twins. Th... more info>>