Our April/May double issue is “dimensionally transcendental”—bigger on the inside than it appears to be on the outside—and we’re still trying to figure out how we managed to cram three big novellas inside, as well as a host of shorter works and the usual columns.

Pamela Sargent returns after too long an absence with her heartfelt and melancholy story of a disparate group of adults in a small New England town desperately trying to piece their lives together after a local tragedy—one that may or may not have been caused by a sinister “Mindband”; Steven Popkes contributes “Jackie’s-Boy,” a story that will undoubtedly prove to be a year-end favorite for many, as a young man and his intelligent talking-elephant traverse a brutal and frightening post-apocalypse America in search of peace in a world that may never know normalcy again; and talented newcomer Gregory Norman Bossert, in his first fiction sale anywhere, describes the trials and travails of a group of scrappy xeno-archeologists as they attempt to preserve the mysterious constructions of an alien race before the human bulldozers plow through, in “The Union of Soil and Sky,” featuring a beautiful new cover by Duncan Long.

Barry B. Longyear returns with an incredibly detailed and compelling account of what might have happened during the last frantic moments of Hitler, deep in his Berlin bunker, surrounded by “Alten Kameraden”; Sara Genge revisits the future-world of her recent story, “Shoes-to-Run,” with “Malick Pan,” the boy who refuses to grow up, despite the havoc he may wreak with a few errant nanomachines; Molly Gloss presents a tale of the “Unforeseen” that puts health-care debates in perspective: what if it was up to your insurance company to decide if you should be brought back from the dead? Tim McDaniel taxes the limits of this Next Issue page with a yarn about a man scientist’s lament, “They Laughed at Me in Vienna, and Again in Prague, and Then in Belfast, and Don’t Forget Hanoi! But I’ll Show Them! I’ll Show Them All, I Tell You!”—you’ll be laughing, too, we promise. Robert Reed channels both Hemingway and On the Beach with his latest apocalypse drama, “Pretty to Think So”; Eugene Fischer makes his Asimov’s print debut with the affecting story of a group of near-future refugees stranded in international waters, homeless and “Adrift.”

Robert Silverberg’s Reflections continues his insightful thoughts about fiction writing in “Showing and Telling II”; Norman Spinrad explores various “Third World Worlds” in “On Books”; plus an array of poetry you’re sure to enjoy.

Look for our April/May double issue on sale at your newsstand on March 2, 2010. Or you can subscribe to Asimov’s—in classy and elegant paper format or those new-fangled downloadable varieties, by visiting us online at www.asimovs.com. We’re also available on Amazon.com’s Kindle!