Stories from Asimov's have won 41 Hugos and 24 Nebula Awards, and our editors have received 18 Hugo Awards for Best Editor. Asimov's was also the 2001 recipient of the Locus Award for Best Magazine.
Welcome. Please come in. Enter some futures. Feel free to pull up a chair and sit down with these fantastic stories from Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. No two of these futures is the same. Yet, while the characters cope with presents that are removed from our own to varying degrees, the dilemmas they face are never removed from the joys and terrors of the human condition. Many of these stories are…
Kij Johnson, who has won the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Asimov’s Readers’ Award for her short fiction, currently has a short story on the Hugo Awards’ ballot and a different one is a finalist for the Locus Award. At the moment, Kij is a graduate student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. With her latest tale, she departs from her traditional short story length to pen a captivating novella about a dangerous alien planet and the humans who attempt to tame it.
Kit came to Nearside with two trunks and an oiled-cloth folio full of plans for the bridge across the mist. His trunks lay tumbled like stones at his feet, where the mailcoach guard had dropped them. The folio he held close, away from the drying mud of yesterday’s storm.
Nearside was small, especially to a man of the capital, where buildings towered seven and eight stories tall, a city so large that even a vigorous walker could not cross it in half a day. Here hard-packed dirt roads threaded through irregular spaces scattered with structures and fences. Even the inn was plain, two stories of golden limestone and blue slate tiles, with (he could smell) some sort of animals living behind it. On the sign overhead, a flat, pale blue fish very like a ray curveted against a black background.
A brightly dressed woman stood by the inn’s door. Her skin and eyes were pale, almost colorless. “Excuse me,” Kit said. “Where can I find the ferry to take me across the mist?” He could ...
"A
truly extraordinary sampler of tales.... Every piece in this
superlative collection is a nugget of pure science fiction gold."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review
This
anniversary anthology presented in chronological order showcases 30
years of excellent stories published in the legendary magazine,
Asimov’s Science Fiction. Asimov’s Science Fiction was founded in 1977.
As one of science fiction’s most influential and prolific writers,
Isaac Asimov wanted to provide a home for new SF writers—a new magazine
for young writers could break into. Asimov’s Science Fiction remains
that home, as well as the publisher of some of the field’s best known
authors.
Editorial by Sheila Williams: The 2011 Dell Magazines Award
