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April/May Issue
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Our mammoth April/May Double Issue is jammed with stuff by both Hot New Writers and some of the Biggest Names in the business! Popular new writer Paul Melko, last seen here with stories such as “Strength Alone” and “The Summer of the Seven,” returns next month with our lead story for April/May, a fast-paced and compelling novella that casts a provincial farm boy adrift on the infinite sea of varying possible worlds with no way home, and no choice but to force himself against “The Walls of the Universe” and see what he can find there to call his own. This one’s a fascinating trip, so don’t fail to take it!
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Also In April/May
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Multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winner (and recently named Grandmaster) Robert Silverberg invites us along on a Grand Tour to a strange place inhabited by strange people (from our provincial twenty-first century perspective, anyway!) as “Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth”; new writer Greg van Eekhout takes us to a world where dangerous magic is in your very bones, at least if you are “The Osteomancer’s Son”; popular author Mary Rosenblum sends us on a dangerous and intrigue-filled mission to take some extremely valuable “Home Movies”; new writer James Maxey returns to plunge us into the slam-bang world of superheroes, which turns out to be a more complicated place than you’d think, as we follow “The Final Flight of the Blue Bee”; R. Neube gives us a disquieting vision of a hardscrabble future society where most human lives are “Not Worth a Cent”; Wil McCarthy enrolls us in “Heisenberg Elementary,” although we may be a bit uncertain about it; new writer Constance Cooper makes an Asimov’s debut that spins webs of intrigue and counter-intrigue around “The King’s Tail”; hot British writer Liz Williams whisks us to a bizarre far-future Mars to play a deadly game of tag with ghosts and lethal scissorwomen during “The Age of Ice”; William Shunn, making his Asimov’s debut, demonstrates that an ignorant young boy can discover whole new worlds once he learns to see things with the proper “Inclination”; Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch haunts us with the tale of a man who is gradually stripped of everything “Except the Music”; and new writer Steve Bein makes his Asimov’s debut by launching us on a suspenseful mission to commit “Datacide.”
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Exciting Features
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Robert Silverberg’s “Reflections” puts some time into “Tracking Down the Ancestors”; Norman Spinrad’s “On Books” examines “Aussies, Brits, and Yanks”; and, in our Thought Experiment feature, our own Brian Bieniowski explores the aural delights to be found on “A Possible Planet: SF and Electronic Music”; plus an array of letters, poems, and other features. Look for our April/May Special Double Issue on sale at your newsstand on March 7, 2006. Or subscribe today and be sure to miss none of the fantastic stuff we have coming up for you this year.
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