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Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2009 [MultiFormat]
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Next month we celebrate all that is fine and good about science fiction in our April/May double issue; a bargain at any price, for it has two excellent novellas on offer, as well as a piquant melange of shorter works, all by some of the best writers in the genre.
Our lead novella, with a striking cover image courtesy of SF artist Paul Youll, is Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "The Spires of Denon," a stand-alone addition to her popular "Diving into the Wreck" universe. This time we find a group of archaeologists, a crack duo of cave divers, and a no-nonsense security-leader, all with cloudy motives, somehow working together to comprehend the alien purpose of the titular spires. By story's end, you'll find that nothing on Denon is quite what it seems. Next, we have Brian Stableford's grand conclusion to his series of not-exactly-Elizabethan space operas, "The Great Armada." Dee, Drake, and the rest of the motley historical cast (with some surprising additions, as well as a golem) must take the initiative against the Selenites directly into space, with the aid of their own flotilla of etheric attack ships. The final battle versus these invaders will surely lead to Fleshcore, arachnid, and human casualties. Who lives? Who dies? Read and find out.
But that's not all: SF legend Kate Wilhelm returns with the discomfiting story of "An Ordinary Day with Jason"; Deborah Coates charms with an SF concept straight out of the pleasant dreams of this managing editor: "Cowgirls in Space"; Chris Beckett returns with P.K. Dick-inspired mind-mangler "Atomic Truth"; Nancy Kress gives us a sneak-peek at a future-culture game of telephone in "Exegesis"; Robert Reed considers the merits and dangers of "True Fame"; Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn team up for the nightmare invasion of "The Armies of Elfland"; Jack Skillingstead pens the tale of a desperate, paranoid man's "Human Day"; and Damien Broderick's fine "This Wind Blowing, and This Tide" explores a mysterious alien shipwreck on Saturn's moon Titan with a decidely unusual science team!
Our April/May issue will be on sale at your newsstands on March 3, 2009.
CONTENTS
Department: EDITORIAL: 400 by Sheila Williams
Department: REFLECTIONS: REREADING VAN VOGT by Robert Silverberg
Novella: THE GREAT ARMADA by Brian Stableford
Short Story: TRUE FAME by Robert Reed
Short Story: AN ORDINARY DAY WITH JASON by Kate Wilhelm
Poetry: SMALL CONQUERORS by Geoffrey A. Landis
Short Story: ATOMIC TRUTH by Chris Beckett
Novelette: THE ARMIES OF ELFLAND by Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick
Poetry: We Ignore Him by P M F Johnson
Short Story: HUMAN DAY by Jack Skillingstead
Short Story: COWGIRLS IN SPACE by Deborah Coates
Poetry: BRIDGES by Peter Roberts
Novelette: THIS WIND BLOWING, AND THIS TIDE by Damien Broderick
Department: NEXT ISSUE
Short Story: EXEGESIS by Nancy Kress
Novella: THE SPIRES OF DENON by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Department: ON BOOKS: WHAT KILLED TOM DISCH? by Norman Spinrad
Department: SF CONVENTIONAL CALENDAR by Erwin S. Strauss
eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2009
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2009
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Words: 114356
Reading time: 326-457 min.
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