Our annual slightly spooky double October/November issue is crammed full of novellas, novelettes, and short stories. Recent Novella Readers’ Award winner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, returns with an eerie new far-future novella about “Becoming One With the Ghosts.” Recent Short Story Readers’ Award winner and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist, Will McIntosh, gives us a surprisingly moving novelette about the oútre meeting of “Frankenstein, Frankenstein”! We plan to complement these two strange stories with an equally weird image of the Witch Head Nebula from NASA.

ALSO IN OCTOBER/NOVEMBER

Rick Wilber returns after far too long an absence and somehow we manage to jam his exciting novella about the dire consequences of collaborating with alien invaders in “Several Items of Interest” into this already overstuffed issue; Don D’Ammassa spins a poignant tale about “No Distance Too Great”; Mike Resnick looks into the brutal “Incar-ceration of Captain Nebula”; Ferrett Steinmetz explores what it’s like for ostracized athletes to be “Under the Thumb of the Brain Patrol”; Tanith Lee’s novelette “Torhec the Sculptor” reveals the secret of the ultimate artist; R. Neube’s characters find out just how dangerous “Dummy Tricks” can be; Kij Johnson startles us with all the “Names for Water”; Kate Wilhelm tells the terrifying tale of why “Changing the World” may have some alarming results; and Felicity Shoulders charms us with the exploits of “The Termite Queen of Tallulah County.”

James Patrick Kelly’s latest “On the Net” warns us that sooner than later we’ll have to “Face the Tweets”; Robert Silverberg’s “Reflections” spins some haunting “Ghost Stories”; Norman Spinrad follows up his last “On Books” with an essay about “Time, Space, and Culture”; plus we’ll have an array of poetry you’re sure to enjoy. Look for our October/ November issue on sale at newsstands on August 31, 2010. Or you can subscribe to Asimov’s—in paper format or in downloadable varieties—by visiting us online at www.asimovs.com. We’re also available on Amazon’s Kindle, Sony's eReader, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and at Fictionwise!

new stories by Michael Swanwick, Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jack Skillingstead, Neal Barrett, jr., Tom Purdom, Sara Genge, Chris Beckett, Robert Reed, Carol Emshwiller, Ian Creasey, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gregory Norman Bossert, Nick Mamatas, and many others.