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July/August 2026 Issue

Our next issue features not one but two incredible novellas. Sam W. Pisciotta sends us to the eighteenth century, where married scientists try to tame chaos after traveling to the New World—but they find their reason is only “A Flame in the Dark.” Reader favorite Allen M. Steele also sends us back in time: we travel with his chrononauts to a major historic disaster—where the mission is to assure the deadly event comes to pass. Is it really “Better the Devil You Know”?

Also in July/August

In a time-spanning tale, Sandra McDonald sends us on the “Last Train to Gertrude Stein”; Zack Be investigates neural implants and humanity’s inner wild via an insurance investigator with “Gumchew”; alternate history star Alan Smale sends us to Carthaginean General Hanibal’s war camp in 212 b.c.; in Robert Reed’s “Oliana’s Skull,” immortals are an ocean away; new to Asimov’s author Gregory Marlow’s narrator is “Seeking” while aliens arrive to Earth; also new to Asimov’s, Minister Faust’s ecoscaper Niang is back in Senegal fighting for a green future in “The Hydrological Cycle of Souls”; and our last author making his Asimov’s debut this issue, Karol Lagodzki, looks for hardwon hope in “Brother Adelbert’s Last Shift.”

Our Exciting Features

Robert Silverberg explains why a successful story is one in which “One Thing Happens” in his Reflections column; Hear from “Worldwide Editors” in James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net; and Paul Di Filippo does a “Small Press Roundup” in On Books, reviewing works by Lois McMaster Bujold, Samuel Delaney, Geoff Ryman, Theodora Goss, Mike Allen, and L. Timmel Duchamp; plus we’ll have an array of poetry.

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You’ll find our July/August 2026 issue on sale at newsstands on June 9, 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!