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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER ISSUE

Our next installment is our annual super-stuffed slightly spooky special issue. We have two substantial novelettes opening and closing the volume—“Visiting Skins” by Christopher Ruz & Rich Larson has us wondering who we can trust; Dale Bailey is back with another exquisitely crafted tale, this time exploring grief and a mysterious “Night Caller from Outer Space.”

ALSO IN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

We have loads of seasonal tales for you—Stephanie Feldman returns with the poignant and terrifying “The Invisible Bone”; Tegan Moore’s troubled protagonist discovers “The Weight of a Heart”; “We Shall Be Monsters” from Esther M. Friesner brings a fresh take on a familiar story; and we discover danger at an innocuous-seeming game night in Lois Metzger’s “The Great Game.” Two far future religions must reconcile with the past and future in Eric Del Carlo’s “The Wages of Saints” and Andrea Kriz’s “This World Is a World of Dew”; Leah Cypess gives us a character looping through time in “Forever and Again”; while Lawrence Connolly’s yarn explores creation and destruction and the power of “Embers.”

OUR EXCITING FEATURES

Robert Silverberg reminisces on “Starting Out” in his Reflections column; James Patrick Kelly investigates the changing technology of AI friendship in “I, Chatbot,” his newest On the Net; Peter Heck reviews works by Elise Kova, Katherine Addison, Meihan Boey, Thomas R. Weaver, S.M. Stirling, Naomi Novik, Jonathan Maberry, Michael Swanwick, and more; Kelly Lagor’s continuing Thought Experiment series looks at Alien with “The Haunting of the Nostromo”; plus we’ll have an array of poetry.

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You’ll find our September/October 2026 issue on sale at newsstands on August 11, 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!