Archives
Editorials by Sheila Williams
2024
Cri de Coeur – March/April 2024
Chat GPT and Me – January/February 2024
2023
Celebrations 2023! – November/December 2023
Thirty-Seventh Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – September/October 2023
The 2023 Dell Magazines Awards – July/August 2023
Guest Editorial: Not Prediction, But Predication – May/June 2023
Visiting 1983 – March/April 2023
Party! – January/February 2023
2022
Thirty-Sixth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – November/December 2022
Resilience – September/October 2022
The 2022 Dell Magazines Awards – July/August 2022
Guest Editorial: Teaching the Metatext – May/June 2022
Guest Editorial: From SF Philosophy in Thirteen Steps – March/April 2022
Looking Backward – January/February 2022
2021
Thirty-Fifth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – November/December 2021
Monstrous – September/October 2021
The 2021 Dell Magazines Awards – July/August 2021
Transitions – May/June 2021
Pandemic Editing – March/April 2021
A Magical Erie – January/February 2021
2020
Guest Editorial: Where We Came from Is Where We’re Going – November/December 2020
Thirty-Fourth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – September/October 2020
The 2020 Dell Magazines Awards – July/August 2020
Guest Editorial: Will NASA’s Next Generation Spacesuit Fit You? – May/June 2020
Thoughts on a Definition of Science Fiction – March/April 2020
Happy Birthday, Isaac Asimov! – January/February 2020
2019
A Sadder and a Wiser Woman – November/December 2019
Thirty-Third Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – September/October 2019
The 2019 Dell Magazines Award – July/August 2019
Anthology News! – May/June 2019
Editor Extraordinaire – March/April 2019
Just Deserts – January/February 2019
2018
Never Say “Rather Unlike” Again – November/December 2018
Thirty-Second Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – September/October 2018
The 2018 Dell Magazine Award Winners – July/August 2018
Guest Editorial: A Semester with Isaac Asimov – May/June 2018
More Words About Some Words – March/April 2018
A Few Words About Some Words – January/February 2018
2017
Excelsior! – November/December 2017
Thirty-First Annual – September/October 2017
The 2017 Dell Magazine Awards – July/August 2017
Anniversaries and Milestones – May/June 2017
Guest Editorial: Things Change – March/April 2017
Forty Years! – January/February 2017
2016
Guest Editorial: That’s Far Out, So You Read It Too? – December 2016
Our Slightly Spooky Issue – October/November 2016
Thirtieth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – September 2016
Discovering Women of Wonder – August 2016
The 2016 Dell Magazines Award – July 2016
Behind the Scenes – June 2016
Guest Editorial: The One Myth About Writers That Drives Me Crazy – April/May 2016
Age Diversity in Asimov’s – March 2016
Days of Futures Past – February 2016
All the News that Fits – January 2016
2015
The Year in Novellas – December 2015
Twenty-Ninth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – October/November 2015
Two Memorials – September 2015
Appreciation – August 2015
The 2015 Dell Magazines Award – July 2015
Guest Editorial by Kathleen Ann Goonan: Teaching Science Fiction, or Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? – June 2015
Philadelphia Stories – April/May 2015
Translation Enigmas – March 2015
Another Day at the Fair – February 2015
Whirlwind WorldCon; or, Shameless Name Dropping – January 2015
2014
The Gifts We Remember – December 2014
Twenty-Eighth Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results – October/November 2014
Lucius Shepard, He was a Friend of Mine – September 2014
The 2014 Dell Magazine Award – August 2014
Eat or Be Eaten – July 2014
Where Are They Now? – April/May 2014
A Day at the Fair – March 2014
Remembering Frederik Pohl – February 2014
A Once in a Lifetime Day – January 2014
2013
Living In A Science Fictional Universe – December 2013
Twenty-Seventh Annual Readers’ Awards Results – October/November 2013
On Not Dying of the Light – September 2013
The 2013 Dell Magazine Awards – August 2013
Luna’s First Heroes – July 2013
Guest Editorial by Ed Finn: Celebrate National Science Fiction Day by Learning to Live in the Future – June 2013
TFNG – April/May 2013
The Distaff Stuff – March 2013
Perils of Time Travel – February 2013
Poet of Mars – January 2013
2012
Merry Armageddon – December 2012
Science Fiction That Scars Children – October/November 2012
The 26th Annual Readers’ Award Results – September 2012
The 2012 Dell Magazines Award – August 2012
The Secret Sharer – July 2012
We Have Met the Alien – June 2012
Vive La Différence! – April/May 2012
Whose Cannon? – March 2012
On Winning the Hugo – February 2012
Centering Science Fiction – January 2012
2011
Sliding Doors – December 2011
Send in the Right Reviewer – October/November 2011
The Twenty-Fifth Annual Readers’ Award Results – September 2011
The 2011 Dell Magazines Award – August 2011
What’s in a Title? – July 2011
Enter a Future – June 2011
Rose-Tinted Goggles – April/May 2011
Neal Barrett, Jr. – March 2011
¡Ay, Caramba! – February 2011
Martin Gardner – January 2011
2010
Sheila and Ted’s Excellent Adventure – December 2010
Mermaids and Pink Elephants – October November 2010
2010 Readers’ Award – September 2010
The 2010 Dell Magazines Award – August 2010
Out of This World – July 2010
Do Androids Dream of Electric Zhu Zhu Pets? – June 2010
B-Side Mentality – April/May 2010
Affecting Eternity II – March 2010
Affecting Eternity – February 2010
A Magazine by Any Name – January 2010
2009
All Around the Town – December 2009
True Confessions – October/November 2009
The 2009 Dell Magazines Award – September 2009
2009 Readers’ Awards – August 2009
Boom and Bust – July 2009
James Patrick Kelly – June 2009
400 – Apri/May 2009
You Might Go Home Again – March 2009
Musica Universalis – February 2009
Controlled Chaos – January 2009
2008
New Dimensions – December 2008
The 2008 Dell Magazines Award – October/November 2008
2008 Readers’ Awards – September 2008
Guest Editorial: Sir Arthur C. Clarke: 1917-2008—A Tribute – August 2008
Two Robots and an Alien Walk Into a Bar… – July 2008
Making an Entrance – June 2008
31 – April/May 2008
Panning for Gold – March 2008
My Rowboat – February 2008
Harry Potter and the Future of Reading – January 2008
2007
Revisiting Apollo 8 – December 2007
Trends – October/November 2007
2007 Readers’ Awards – September 2007
The 2007 Dell Magazines Award – August 2007
First Impressions – July 2007
Heroes, Unsung – June 2007
Isaac Asimov, George Scithers, Kathleen Moloney, Shawna McCarthy, Garnder Dozois, and Sheila Wiliams: In Memories Yet Green – April/May 2007
Alli/Tip and Me – March 2007
Guest Editorial by Brian Bieniowski: A Second-Hand Sensibility – February 2007
Anniversaries – January 2007
2006
How My Heart Breaks When I Hear That Song – December 2006
The Pulp-Art Time Machine – October/November 2006
2006 Readers’ Awards – September 2006
The 2006 Dell Magazines Award – August 2006
Moon Day – July 2006
The Yellow Pill or Altered Perceptions – June 2006
Coming of Age – April/May 2006
Science Fiction Sudoku – March 2006
Alternate History – February 2006
Interaction – January 2006
2005
Writing Workshops – December 2005
Behind the Scenes – October/November 2005
Generations – September 2005
The 2005 Dell Magazines Award – August 2005
2005 Readers’ Awards – July 2005
Robotics – April/May 2005
Editor’s Note – March 2005
Editorial – February 2005
Editorial – January 2005
Reflections by Robert Silverberg:
2024
Lovecraft’s First Folio – March/April 2024
I Didn’t Write It – January/February 2024
2023
Homo Superior-Us? – November/December 2023
Advertisements for Myself, Again – September/October 2023
Dimensions – July/August 2023
The Garden of Deleted Words – May/June 2023
The Kensington Stone – March/April 2023
Farewell to the Vinland Map – January/February 2023
2022
Temps Perdu – November/December 2022
Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth? – September/October 2022
Looking Backward – July/August 2022
The Neanderthal Cathedral – May/June 2022
Across the Centuries – March/April 2022
Fifty Million Monkey Selfies – January/February 2022
2021
A Bad Day for the Dinosaurs – November/December 2021
Roc of Ages – September/October 2021
Memories of the Space Age – July/August 2021
The First Encyclopedia – May/June 2021
Betelgeuse, We Hardly Knew Ye – March/April 2021
One Hundred Years of Robots – January/February 2021
2020
Finding the Mountains of Madness – November/December 2020
The Road Not Taken – September/October 2020
Rereading L. Ron Hubbard – July/August 2020
The One That Gets You Hooked – May/June 2020
Do Androids Dream of Electric Popes? – March/April 2020
The Pharaoh’s Trachea – January/February 2020
2019
California Secedes! – November/December 2019
Rereading Shiel – September/October 2019
Imaginary Voyages – July/August 2019
Our Shaggy Cousins – May/June 2019
Gardner Dozois – March/April 2019
Looking Backward – January/February 2019
2018
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cats? – November/December 2018
I Invent the Compact Disc in 1961 – September/October 2018
Terra Incognita – July/August 2018
Circe and Doctor Moreau – May/June 2018
Rereading Fletcher Pratt – March/April 2018
Gog & Magog II – January/February 2018
2017
Gog & Magog – November/December 2017
The Last Hittite – September/October 2017
Sharing Worlds – July/August 2017
Advertisements for Myself – May/June 2017
Forty Years! – March/April 2017
Two Cheers for Piltdown Man – January/February 2017
2016
Dead as a Dodo – December 2016
Magical Thinking – October/November 2016
“Darn,” He Smiled – September 2016
The Software of Magic – August 2016
Persons from Porlock – July 2016
My Trip to the Future – June 2016
Thinking About Homer – April/May 2016
Writing Under the Influence – March 2016
A Famous Fantastic Mystery – February 2016
Fimbulwinter – January 2016
2015
Non-Asimovian Robots – December 2015
Star (Psi Cassiopeia) – October/November 2015
The Sixth Palace – September 2015
Reunite Gondwanaland! – August 2015
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, Starcraft – July 2015
The World to End Last Month – June 2015
Praising or Banning – April/May 2015
Lost in Translation II – March 2015
One-Hit Wonders – February 2015
Richard Hakluyt of Space – January 2015
2014
Rereading S. Fowler Wright – December 2014
Robert A. Heinlein, Author of The Martian Chronicles – October/November 2014
Flashing Before My Eyes – September 2014
Longevity – August 2014
Was Jule Verne a Science Fiction Writer? – July 2014
Another Transition – June 2014
Borges, Leinster, Google – April/May 2014
Blues and Greens – March 2014
Rereading Philip José Farmer – February 2014
The Plurality of Worlds: A Contrarian View – January 2014
2013
The Plurality of Worlds – December 2013
Translations II – October/November 2013
Translations – September 2013
Rereading Simak – August 2013
“John Frum, He Come” – July 2013
“. . . Not Even Wrong” – June 2013
My Desk – April/May 2013
The Year’s Best Science Fiction – March 2013
Looking for Atlantis – February 2013
The Raft of Medusa – January 2013
2012
Libraries – December 2012
Decline and Fall – October/November 2012
Anthologies – September 2012
Big Endians/Little Endians – August 2012
Life In The Future – July 2012
Rereading Philip K. Dick – June 2012
As Slow As Possible – April/May 2012
My Voyage to Atlantis – March 2012
Rereading Edison – February 2012
2011
The Strange Case of the Patagonian Giants – December 2011
A Writer’s Diary – October/November 2011
The Reign of the Retired Emperor – September 2011
Earth is the Strangest Planet – August 2011
The Fantastic Voyages of Sir John Mandeville – July 2011
Nothing New Under the Sun – June 2011
More About The Plot Genie – April/May 2011
The Plot Genie – March 2011
A Relic of Antiquity – February 2011
The Ruin – January 2011
2010
Rereading Kornbluth – December 2010
Ghost Stories – October/November 2010
Calling Dr. Asimov! – September 2010
Brave New Words – August 2010
The Search for Other Earths – July 2010
Satan, Get Thee Hence! – June 2010
Showing and Telling II – April/May 2010
Showing and Telling – March 2010
Rereading Clarke – February 2010
The Antikythera Computer – January 2010
2009
Building Worlds: Part III – December 2009
Building Worlds: Part II - October/November 2009
Building Worlds: Part I – September 2009
Adventures in the Far Future II – August 2009
Adventures in the Far Future – July 2009
In the Bush of Ghosts – June 2009
Rereading van Vogt – April/May 2009
Doomsday – March 2009
It Wasn’t All That Easy – February 2009
Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta – January 2009
2008
A Logic Named Will – December 2008
Beaming It Down – October/November 2008
Another Thirtieth Anniversary – September 2008
Some Thoughts on the Short Story – August 2008
Rereading Stapledon II – July 2008
The Death of Gallium – June 2008
Rereading Stapledon – April/May 2008
Space Junk for Sale – March 2008
Toilet Nirvana – February 2008
Aladdin’s Cave– January 2008
2007
Rereading Heinlein– December 2007
Rereading Theodore Sturgeon – October/November 2007
Saddam Wasn’t the Worst – September 2007
Decoding Cuneiform – August 2007
Limbo on the Moon – July 2007
Resurrecting the Quagga – June 2007
Thirty Years! – April/May 2007
Jack Williamson – March 2007
Rereading Jack Vance – February 2007
Farming– January 2007
2006
Flashing Before My Eyes– December 2006
Making Backups– October/November 2006
The Kraken – September 2006
The Thumb on the Dinosaur’s Nose: II – August 2006
The Thumb on the Dinosaur’s Nose – July 2006
Sixtus the Sixth – June 2006
Tracking Down the Ancestors – April/May 2006
Plutonium for Breakfast – March 2006
The Days of Perky Vivienne – February 2006
Levitating Your Dinner – January 2006
2005
Lovecraft as Science Fiction– December 2005
Serials– October/November 2005
Robert Burton, Anatomist of Melancholy – September 2005
The Greatness of Cornelius Drible – August 2005
Two Worldcons, Worlds Apart – July 2005
Mr. Orwell, Meet Mr. Dick and Herr Kafka – June 2005
Fantasies About Fiction – April/May 2005
A Pair of Ragged Jaws – March 2005
Grand Masters, the Sequel – February 2005
Gardner Moves On – January 2005
Thought Experiments
2024
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2023
Kelly Lagor: Aliens, Outsiders, and Things – September/October 2023
Kelly Lagor: Shakespeare, Freud, and the Unconscious in Forbidden Planet – May/June 2023
Kelly Lagor: The Showing and Telling of Metropolis and Fritz Lang – January/February 2023
2022
Kelly Lagor: The Science Fiction and Horror of Frankenstein – September/October 2022
Kelly Lagor: Magic, Science, and the Moon in Le Voyage Dans La Lune – March/April 2022
2019
James Gunn: Science Fiction Considers the Post-Human – May/June 2019
2018
Allen M. Steele: The History of Science Fiction and Why It Matters – November/December 2018
James Gunn: Space Opera and the Quest for Transcendence – January/February 2018
2016
Pushing the World in a Certain Direction and Other Acts of Submission – January 2016
2014
Jay O’Connell: Is Resistance Futile? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Glass – October/November 2014
Allen M. Steele: Tomorrow Through the Past – September 2014
2013
Ed Finn: Dreaming Up a Center for Science and the Imagination – October/November 2013
2011
James Gunn: Celebrating Isaac – April/May 2011
2010
Aliette De Bodard: The View from the Other Side: Science Fiction and Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries – September 2010
2008
Rudy Rucker: The Great Awakening – August 2008
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: When the Whole World Looked Up – July 2008
2007
Michael Cassutt : Me and Deke and the Paradigm Shift – February 2007
2006
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Barbarian Confessions – December 2006
Therese Littleton: Preserving the History of the Future – July 2006
Brian Bieniowski: A Possible Planet: SF & Electronic Music – April/May 2006
Joe Lazzaro: More Than Halfway To Anywhere – March 2006
Brooks Peck: Cyberpunk is Alive and Well and Living In- Where Else?- Japan – February 2006
2005
Therese Littleton: Invasion of the Vinyl Space Monkeys – December 2005
Rudy Rucker: Adventures in Gnarly Computation – November 2005
Cory Doctorow: When the Singularity is no Longer A Literary Device – June 2005
Therese Littleton: The Robots We Want – May 2005
Roger Ebert: How Propeller-Heads, BNFs, Sercon Geeks, Newbies, Recovering GAFIAtors, and Kids in the Basements Invented the World Wide Web, All Except for the Delivery System – January 2005