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JULY ISSUE
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Those of us who somehow find ourselves straddling the generation gap, as described by James Patrick Kelly in this month’s On the Net, are the lucky ones: we are able to enjoy stories by the science fiction luminaries of today and tomorrow, all presented in Asimov’s.
Consider next month’s novella feature by hard SF master Stephen Baxter. “Earth II”is a sprawling, exciting adventure across a massive world filled with mystery, beauty, and danger. Upon this grand landscape, the descendants of the original colonists now pursue manifest destiny through the military might of their empire. These brave—and sometimes brutal—warriors must consider some difficult questions regarding the nature of their adopted world, their place in it, and the role the colony’s few founders’ philosophy plays in their complex and swiftly shifting world. This is Baxter at his very best; it is terse human drama set against ambitious world building, and sure to be on many of your year’s best lists for 2009.
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ALSO IN JULY
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R. Garcia y Robertson returns with a rollicking new world to play in; “SinBad the Sand Sailor” harkens back to both Farmer’s Green Odyssey and the classic work ofEdgar Rice Burroughs as the titular smuggler and raconteur must evade winged pirates, alien slavers from a nearby moon, and the police, as he attempts to win the love of a beautiful air hostess with a real knock-out kiss—this tale’s a blast. Sara Genge’s latest, “Shoes-To-Run,” relates one woman’s struggle toward independance in a future tribe upon a desolate, radiation-scarred world; Michael Cassutt’s elegy for the golden age of the space program determines the ultimate fate of “The Last Apostle”; Kit Reed warns of the dangers a weekend trip to “Camp Nowhere” might yield, and Australian talent Ian McHugh explains the miracle of life through some unusual alien birthing rituals in “Sleepless in the House of Ye.”
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OUR EXCITING FEATURES
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Robert Silverberg, in his Reflections column, swashbuckles through some “Adventures in the Far Future”; Paul Di Filippo brings us “On Books”; plus an array of poetry you’re sure to enjoy. Look for our June issue on sale at your newsstand on May 12, 2009. Or you can subscribe to Asimov’s—by mail or online, in classy and elegant paper format or new-fangled downloadable varieties, by visiting us online at www.asimovs.com. We’re also available on Amazon.com’s Kindle!
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COMING SOON
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...brand new stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Reed, Nancy Kress, William Barton, Carol Emshwiller, Bruce McAllister, Elissa Malcohn, Steve Rasnic Tem, Brenda Cooper, Steven Popkes, Michael Blumlein, Christopher Barzak,Damien Broderick, and many others!
Our July issue will be on sale at your newsstands on May 12, 2009.
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