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eBook Description: ON SALE UNTIL DECEMBER 7, 2006 Our mammoth April/May Double Issue is jammed with stuff by both Hot New Writers and some of the Biggest Names in the business! Popular new writer Paul Melko, last seen here with stories such as "Strength Alone" and "The Summer of the Seven," returns next month with our lead story for April/May, a fast-paced and compelling novella that casts a provincial farm boy adrift on the infinite sea of varying possible worlds with no way home, and no choice but to force himself against "The Walls of the Universe" and see what he can find there to call his own. This one's a fascinating trip, so don't fail to take it! Multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winner (and recently named Grandmaster) Robert Silverberg invites us along on a Grand Tour to a strange place inhabited by strange people (from our provincial twenty-first century perspective, anyway!) as "Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth"; new writer Greg van Eekhout takes us to a world where dangerous magic is in your very bones, at least if you are "The Osteomancer's Son"; popular author Mary Rosenblum sends us on a dangerous and intrigue-filled mission to take some extremely valuable "Home Movies"; new writer James Maxey returns to plunge us into the slam-bang world of superheroes, which turns out to be a more complicated place than you'd think, as we follow "The Final Flight of the Blue Bee"; R. Neube gives us a disquieting vision of a hardscrabble future society where most human lives are "Not Worth a Cent"; Wil McCarthy enrolls us in "Heisenberg Elementary," although we may be a bit uncertain about it; new writer Constance Cooper makes an Asimov's debut that spins webs of intrigue and counter-intrigue around "The King's Tail"; hot British writer Liz Williams whisks us to a bizarre far-future Mars to play a deadly game of tag with ghosts and lethal scissorwomen during "The Age of Ice"; William Shunn, making his Asimov's debut, demonstrates that an ignorant young boy can discover whole new worlds once he learns to see things with the proper "Inclination"; Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch haunts us with the tale of a man who is gradually stripped of everything "Except the Music"; and new writer Steve Bein makes his Asimov's debut by launching us on a suspenseful mission to commit "Datacide." Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" puts some time into "Tracking Down the Ancestors"; Norman Spinrad's "On Books" examines "Aussies, Brits, and Yanks"; and, in our Thought Experiment feature, our own Brian Bieniowski explores the aural delights to be found on "A Possible Planet: SF and Electronic Music"; plus an array of letters, poems, and other features. Cover Art by Bob Eggleton. Printable in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. NOVELLAS
Inclination by William Shunn
The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko

NOVELETTES
Except the Music by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Home Movies by Mary Rosenblum

SHORT STORIES
Heisenberg Elementary by Wil McCarthy
The Final Flight of the Blue Bee by James Maxey
Datacide by Steve Bein
Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth by Robert Silverberg
The Age of Ice by Liz Williams
The Osteomancer's Son by Greg van Eekhout
Not Worth a Cent by R. Neube
The King's Tail by Constance Cooper

POETRY
Choose by W. Gregory Stewart
The Sonnet from Hell by Sue Burke
The Tree of Life Drops Propagules by Greg Beatty
Brick, Concrete, and Steel People by Bruce Boston
Burying Maud by William John Watkins

DEPARTMENTS
Editorial: Coming of Age by Sheila Williams
Reflections: Tracking Down the Ancestors by Robert Silverberg
Letters
Thought Experiments: A Possible Planet: SF & Electronic Music by Brian Bieniowski
On Books: Aussies, Brits, and Yanks by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss

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