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Next issue is not only our immense April/May Double Issue, but a very special issue indeed: our Thirtieth Anniversary Issue, jammed to the gills and packed to the waterline not only with cutting edge fiction from some of the biggest names in the business, but with some unique retrospectives and personal reminiscences that look back over and sum up thirty years (thirty years! can it possibly have been that long?) of Asimov’s issues and Asimov’s stories, making this a unique, one-of-a-kind issue that will be treasured by collectors for years to come.
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Our April/May double issue features not one but two huge novellas by prominent authors. First up, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winner Lucius Shepard returns with our lead story for April/May, a big, vivid, and violent novella that takes us to where the criminal underworld of today’s High Stakes Poker scene mixes with the spirit-haunted world of voodoo, for the story how some shady gamblers bite off more than they can chew when they try to bite into someone who looks like “Dead Money.” This one is as exciting, and as full of double-crosses and triple-crosses, as any noir thriller, so don’t miss it! Then Hugo-winner Allen M. Steele takes us back to the newly settled frontier world of Coyote, setting for his popular novels Coyote, Coyote Rising, and Coyote Frontier to take us on a tense journey of exploration into unraveled wilderness in company with a party of reluctant explorers who must guard against each other almost as much as against the hostile environment that threatens them at every turn, and who face their greatest challenge when they encounter the sinister alien menace of “The River Horses.” This is flat-out, fast-paced adventure writing at its best, and you won’t want to miss this one either. But that’s not even close to being all we have in store for you in our huge April/May double issue!
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Multiple Hugo and Nebula-winner Robert Silverberg, one of the most distinguished writers in the entire history of the field, returns to show us what it’s like to have a disquieting, stomach-roiling job like that of “The Eater of Dreams”; National Book Award-winner Lisa Goldstein guides us to the quiet serenity of a library for an encounter that’s anything but quiet and serene, as we meet “Lilyanna”; Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winner Michael Swanwick walks us down some very mean streets and into some rather peculiar neighborhoods as a murder investigation leads to “A Small Room in Koboldtown”; Nebula and Hugo-winner Nancy Kress demonstrates that sometimes the ability to concentrate can be taken to extremes, as she plays an unsettling “End Game”; best-selling author and Philip K. Dick Award-winner Karen Joy Fowler, returning after too long an absence, guides us to a small town whose inhabitants have a rather odd slant on life, in “Always”; multiple Hugo and Nebula-winner Mike Resnick experiences déjà vu of an unusual kind, as he takes us through a bittersweet “Distant Replay”; Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winner Gene Wolfe gives us a nightmarish glimpse of life under “Green Glass”; best-selling author William Barton shows us that if you want to do something right, sometimes you have to do it yourself, as he gives us a hopefully prophetic preview of “The Rocket into Planetary Space”; best-selling author and John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner Jack McDevitt explains how the debate over what happened on “The Fifth Day” can be of life-altering importance, or even fatal; and British writer Liz Williams keeps company with a lighthouse keeper dwelling next to a bitter winter sea who must brace herself to resist the assaults of the “Wolves of the Spirit.”
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Robert Silverberg takes a look back over “Thirty Years!” of Asimov’s; all of Asimov’s editors, past and present, share reminiscences about the magazine’s history in a very special Editorial; and Norman Spinrad’s “On Books” column wonders “Whither the Hard Stuff?”; plus an array of cartoons, poems, and other features. Look for our huge April/May Special Thirtieth Anniversary Double Issue on sale on your newsstand on March 6, 2007. Or you can subscribe to Asimov’s—either by mail, or online, in varying formats, including in downloadable form for your PDA, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com)—and make sure that you don’t miss any of the great stuff we have coming up for you!
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cortex-coddling stories by Lucius Shepard, Karen Joy Fowler, Allen M. Steele, Kit Reed, Lisa Goldstein, Neal Asher, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Robert Reed, Jack McDevitt, Jack Skillingstead, Elizabeth Bear, and many others!
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