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…
Connie Willis’s most recent novel, a two-volume work entitled Blackout and All Clear, is set in World War II, in the middle of the evacuation of Dunkirk, the intelligence war, and the London Blitz. It won the Nebula Award and is a current finalist for the Hugo. In reviewing Blackout, the Washington Post described Connie as “a novelist who can plot like Agatha Christie and whose books possess a bounce and stylishness that Preston Sturges might envy.” She is currently working on a new novel about Roswell, alien abduction, cattle mutilations, and Area 51. It is, of course, a comedy. These books have, unfortunately, distracted Connie from writing her annual Christmas story. Luckily, this year she took some time between novels to fashion a holiday story.
“Fuck The Red Shoes. I wanted to be a Rockette.”
—A Chorus Line
All right, so you’re probably wondering how I, Claire Havilland, three-time Tony winner, Broadway legend, and star of Only Human—ended up here, standing outside Radio City Music Hall in a freezing rain two days before Christmas, soaked to the skin and on the verge of pneumonia, accosting harmless passersby.
"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
