From The Editor
Welcome to Asimov’s Science Fiction!
Fulfilling a lifelong goal, I began my career with Asimov’s in 1982. I thought then, that it was the best magazine on Earth. I still do.
For ten years I had the privilege of working with Isaac Asimov. I’ve also worked with a pantheon of editors and authors publishing groundbreaking fiction. This has been a rewarding journey for me. As editor of the magazine, I invite you to enter our pages. Come along and enjoy the same excitement we feel when reading each new issue of Asimov’s. See you there!
– Sheila Williams
About the Editor
Sheila Williams is the two-time Hugo Award winning Editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, which has won the prestigious Locus Award for Best Magazine multiple times.
Sheila’s interest in science fiction began in her early years in western Massachusetts, when her father read Edgar Rice Burroughs books to her as a child. By the time Sheila was in sixth grade, her parents found her a British anthology abroad called Adventure Stories for Girls, which she read no less than a dozen times. Sheila went on to graduate from Elmira College, New York, studying at the London School of Economics junior year, and received her Master’s from Washington University in St. Louis.
In addition to her editorial stewardship of the magazine, Sheila Williams is the editor/co-editor of more than two dozen best-selling science fiction anthologies. One of Sheila’s proudest accomplishments is co-founding, with Rick Wilber in 1993, the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, co-sponsored by Dell Magazines and The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. The Award – with its cash prize, conference appearance, and in-depth consultation with Sheila and other established authors – encourages young writers and helps them form lasting relationships with other aspiring writers. Many of these finalists go on to become published authors.
Editorial: An Evening In Soho
by Sheila Williams
Writing this editorial in early fall of 2024 for an issue that will be in sale in the winter of 2025 makes me feel a bit like I’m slipping through time. We held an authors’ reading in celebration of Asimov’s and Analog in New York City on a warm August evening a few weeks before the unofficial end of summer. It was our third time hosting an event at the beautiful Housing Works Bookstore. Housing Works, which was founded in 1990, advocates for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The bookstore is located on Crosby Street in a historic SoHo neighborhood. To reach the store, you can stroll down a cobblestone street, just as someone might have done in the nineteenth century. The store is lined with mahogany bookshelves and the balconies are reached via cast iron spiral staircases. The bookstore is the perfect location for an event celebrating the written word. READ MORE
You can email Sheila Williams at Asimovs@DellMagazines.com. Get the inside scoop! Check out Fran Wilde’s interview with Sheila at Geekmom.com for special insight into her editorial process and more!