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May/June Issue

We are featuring “Hot”—an almost novel-length tale in our May/June 2026 issue! Well-known historical and science fiction novelist, Cecelia Holland’s first story for Asimov’s drops us into an over-heated suburban society on the verge of a climate apocalypse and leaps into breathtaking action. This story of survival and resilience is a novella you won’t want to miss.

Also in May/June

A.M. Dellamonica plunges us into the Yukon wilds where an unusual cast of characters do their best to survive a “Failed Attempt at Predation”; Dale Bailey describes a different sort of trauma in “Sophie Simpson’s Whizz-Bang Day at World War I”; the timeline in Steve Rasnic Tem’s “The Sky Above, the Sea Below” revolves from an Earth facing climate change to life on Mars; new to Asimov’s author Zhou Wen brings fresh meaning to the question of “Who am I this time?” in “The Girl Who Stole Life.” The tale was translated from Chinese by Xueting C. Ni. New author Kelsey Hutton sweeps us under water and into the brutal “Belly of the Beast”; Betsy Aoki creates a complex dance of interactions in a story about space travel, colonization, and “The Language of Machines”; Stephanie Feldman’s story of an escape artist and a medium invites us “Half Inside the Spirit Box”; and Greg Egan’s tale considers conspiracy theories and a simple biological molecule in “Alpha Gal.”

Our Exciting Features

Robert Silverberg’s Reflections takes a spin on a “Round-Robin”; Meet “Tomorrow’s Bots” in James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net; Kelly Lagor’s Thought Experiment looks at “Iterations in and of Planet of the Apes” and Kelly Jenning’s On Books reviews works by R.F. Kuang, Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress, Mira Grant, Adam Oyebanji, Jo Walton, and others; plus we’ll have an array of poetry.

New!

You’ll find our May/June 2026 issue on sale at newsstands on February 10, 2026. Or subscribe to Asimov’s—in paper format or our own downloadable varieties—by visiting us online at www.asimovs.com. We’re also available individually or by subscription via Amazon.com’s Kindle Unlimited and BarnesandNoble.com’s Nook!