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Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2006 [MultiFormat]
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: ON SALE UNTIL JUNE 5, 2007! Our special October/November Double Issue, always one of the most eagerly anticipated issues of the year, is jam-packed with as many stories as we can possibly fit into it, including the best work by both rising new stars and some of the Biggest Names in the business.
One of our most popular and prolific writers, Robert Reed, brings us our lead story for October/November, with an intense and fascinating look at a society where the invention of the "ripper" opens the universe to colonization and makes it possible for every man to be the ultimate ruler, literally the father, of his own world--but at a rather dark and disturbing price. This will be one of the most talked-about stories of the year, so don't miss it! Then another of our most frequent contributors, William Barton, gives us our vivid cover story for October/November, sweeping us along with a group of boys playing in the woods who find adventures stranger and more dangerous than they could possibly have imagined, as they explore the fabulous realms to be found when you venture "Down to the Earth Below." These two huge novellas alone will give you hours of great reading--but that's not even close to being all we have in store for you in this special issue!
Sturgeon Award-winner Michael F. Flynn, one of the mainstays of our sister magazine Analog, makes a too-rare appearance in these pages with the story of an all-swallowing enigma that leads us to an appreciation of "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth"; Nebula-winner Pamela Sargent revisits a Famous Film Icon for the true story of what happened "After I Stopped Screaming"; new writer Ron Collins, making his Asimov's debut, shows us that "1 Is True"; renowned British writer Ian Watson advises us about "Saving for a Sunny Day, or, The Benefits of Reincarnation"; Melissa Lee Shaw shares her house with more than just abandoned pets in the unsettling "Foster"; James Van Pelt provides a moving portrait of "The Small Astral Object Genius"; veteran writer Kit Reed takes us to a sinister family reunion with "Biodad"; and Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winner Carol Emshwiller examines the surprising elements that go into the psychological makeup of "The Seducer."
Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column warns us about the importance of "Making Backups"; Norman Spinrad's "On Books" column muses about "The Big Kahuna"; and James Patrick Kelly's "On the Net" column unveils "The Secrets of the Web Masters (Part One)"; plus an array of poems, puzzles, and other features. Look for our huge October/ November Double Issue on sale at your newsstand on September 5, 2006. Or subscribe today and be sure to miss none of the fantastic stuff we have coming up for you this year (you can also subscribe to Asimov's online, in varying formats, including in downloadable form for your PDA, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com).
NOVELLAS
A BILLION EVES by Robert Reed
DOWN TO THE EARTH BELOW by William Barton
NOVELETTES
DAWN, AND SUNSET, AND THE COLOURS OF THE EARTH by Michael F. Flynn
1 IS TRUE by Ron Collins
SHORT STORIES
BIODAD by Kit Reed
AFTER I STOPPED SCREAMING by Pamela Sargent
THE SMALL ASTRAL OBJECT GENIUS by James Van Pelt
THE SEDUCER by Carol Emshwiller
SAVING FOR A SUNNY DAY, OR, THE BENEFITS OF REINCARNATION by Ian Watson
FOSTER MELISSA by Lee Shaw
POETRY
PREPONDERANCE OF THE SMALL by Rebecca Marjesdatter
HELL ON WHEELS by Sandra J. Lindow
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF by Greg Beatty
FRANKENSTEIN VS. THE FLYING SQUIRRELS by David Livingstone Clink
GREY NOVEMBER by Holly Phillips
FORWARD AND BACKWARD BELIEF by Vincent Miske
REMEMBERING THE FUTURE by Darrell Schweitzer
DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL: THE PULP-ART TIME MACHINE by Sheila Williams
REFLECTIONS: MAKING BACKUPS by Robert Silverberg
ON THE NET: SECRETS OF THE WEBMASTERS (PART ONE) by James Patrick Kelly
LETTERS
SCIENCE FICTION SUDOKU by Rebecca Mayr
ON BOOKS: THE BIG KAHUNA by Norman Spinrad
THE SF CONVENTIONAL CALENDAR by Erwin S. Strauss
NEXT ISSUE
DECEMBER ISSUE: Our lead story for December is by multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and World Fantasy Award-winner Michael Swanwick returns us to the bizarre milieu of "King Dragon," "The Word That Sings the Scythe," and "An Episode of Stardust," half Faerie and half gritty science fiction, where haints and feys and elves mix with subways and motorcycles and mechanical dragons, for a dangerous journey deep into the unknown maze of tunnels beneath Babel Tower, as one dragon-haunted man dares to enter "Lord Weary's Empire" The question is, can he get out again? This is as vivid, exciting, and evocative a novella as you're going to read this year, so don't miss it!
ALSO IN DECEMBER: Popular new writer Paolo Bacigalupi plunges us into a harrowing but all-too-probable future Bangkok, as we share the nightmarish life endured by the "Yellow Card Man"; Hugo- and Nebula-winner Brian W. Aldiss, one of the giants of the field, takes us on a voyage that is anything but "Safe!," either for the voyager or for the folks back home; new writer Ian Creasey shows us a future where the past is not prologue, but rather may be as good as it's going to get, as he examines "The Golden Record"; acclaimed British writer Christopher Priest, making a long-overdue Asimov's debut, takes us on "A Dying Fall" into what happens between your penultimate moment and your last; Robert Reed, one of our most popular and prolific contributors, paints an eccentric portrait of a peculiar society that for all its oddness is not only attractive but strangely "Plausible"; and new writer Susan Forest, making her Asimov's debut, demonstrates that when a deadly plague breaks out on a frontier planet, "Immunity" can cost more than you're really willing to pay for it.
EXCITING FEATURES: Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column speaks of things "Flashing Before My Eyes"; and Peter Heck brings us "On Books"; plus an array of cartoons, poems, and other features. Look for our December issue on sale at your newsstand on October 10, 2006. Or subscribe today and be sure to miss none of the fantastic stuff we have coming up for you this year (you can also subscribe to Asimov's online, in varying formats, including in downloadable form for your PDA, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com).
COMING SOON: cerebellum-coiffing new tales by Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jack Dann, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Michael Swanwick, Allen M. Steele, Bruce McAllister, Tom Purdom, R. Neube, Jack Skillingstead, Colin C. Davies, A.R. Morlan, and many others.
eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2006
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Words: 116950
Reading time: 334-467 min.
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