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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Our lead story for July continues Brian Stableford's occasional series following the outrageous exploits of several famed Elizabethan personalities during humanity's introduction to the alien (not to mention strange) Universe. In the latest installment, we leave the humid nightmares of "Doctor Muffet's Island" behind, and, returning to England, find alchemist and charlatan Thomas Kelley in a peculiar position when his usual fraudery becomes chilling reality thanks to the mysterious powers of "The Philosopher's Stone"!

July also features the return of one of the genre's finest talents, Michael Bishop, with his haunting allegory on the loss of a loved one, "Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage"; R. Neube returns with a funny and scathing take on the complications of love in a tightened-belt society of interplanetary colonists in "Cascading Violet Hair"; Gord Sellar, making a memorable Asimov's debut, takes us on a long, strange trip around the Solar System with an unlikely cadre of jazz legends in "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues"; Kij Johnson submits a clever meditation on the fleeting nature of human (and simian) happiness in "26 Monkeys, also the Abyss"; and Steven Utley contributes the latest in his "Silurian Tales" sequence with the frightfully cold equations of "The Woman Under the World."

We bring back our Thought Experiments column in July with a personal, inspirational essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch regarding the historic Moon landing in "When the Whole World Looked Up"; Robert Silverberg, in his "Reflections" column, continues his exploration of Golden Age SF in "Rereading Stapledon II"; Paul Di Filippo presents "On Books"; plus an array of pleasant poetry by many of your favorite poets. Look for our July issue at your newsstand on May 13, 2008. Or you can subscribe to Asimov's--by mail or online, in varying formats, including downloadable forms, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com--and make sure that you don't miss any of the great stuff we have coming up!

New stories by Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Neal Barrett, Jr., Carol Emshwiller, Mary Rosenblum, Geoffrey A. Landis, Robert Reed, Ian Creasey, Jack Skillingstead, Robert R. Chase, Will McIntosh, Steven Utley, Matthew Johnson, and many others....

CONTENTS
Department: EDITORIAL: TWO ROBOTS AND AN ALIEN WALK INTO A BAR by Sheila Williams
Department: REFLECTIONS: REREADING STAPLEDON II by Robert Silverberg
Department: IN MEMORIAM: JANET KAGAN: 1946-2008
Department: LETTERS
Department: THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS: WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD LOOKED UP by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Novelette: LESTER YOUNG AND THE JUPITER'S MOONS' BLUES by Gord Sellar
Short Story: THE WOMAN UNDER THE WORLD by Steven Utley
Short Story: CASCADING VIOLET HAIR by R. Neube
Novelette: VINEGAR PEACE, OR, THE WRONG-WAY USED-ADULT ORPHANAGE by Michael Bishop
Short Story: 26 MONKEYS, ALSO THE ABYSS by Kij Johnson
Novella: THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE by Brian Stableford
Poetry: LIGHT ACROSS AN IMPOSSIBLE LAKE by Mark Rich
Department: ON BOOKS by Paul Di Filippo
Department: SF CONVENTIONAL CALENDAR by Erwin S. Strauss
Department: NEXT ISSUE

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2008

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