The October/November 2012 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 36, Numbers 10 & 11; Whole Numbers 441 & 442) goes on sale next week. Contents of this issue will include:

Novellas:
“The Mongolian Book of the Dead” by Alan Smale
“The Stars Do Not Lie” by Jay Lake

Novelettes:
“The Second Engineer” by Gray Rinehart
“The Ghost Factory” by Will Ludwigsen

Short Stories:
“Antarctica Starts Here” by Paul McAuley
“Results Guaranteed” by Kit Reed
“Lion Dance” by Vylar Kaftan
“This Hologram World” by Eugene Mirabelli
“A Handsome Fellow” by Ekaterina Sedia
“Chromatophores” by John Alfred Taylor
“Shattering” by Steven Utley

Poetry:
“Three Sumerian Mummies” by Peter Simons
“Ghosts” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“The Season” by Ken Poyner
“Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (or something like that)” by Lola Haskins

Departments:
Editorial: “Science Fiction That Scars Children” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Decline and Fall” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “Unreal Life” by James Patrick Kelly
Next Issue
On Books: “Meeting the Other” by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss

The cover art is by Donato Giancola.