Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine has announced the fiction line-ups for their January and February 2008 issues.
In January, they’ll be publishing:
Short Stories:
“Unlikely” by Will McIntosh—his first story in Asimov’s is a “wry tale about what life might be like if we really did know how it worked.”
“The Whale’s Lover” by Deborah Coates
Novelettes:
“The Perfect Wave” by Rudy Rucker & Marc Laidlaw
“Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders” by Mike Resnick
“The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald” by Tanith Lee—this is “a disturbing and violent look at the effects a deadly new plague could have on human society.”
Serial:
“The Fool’s Errand” by Allen M. Steele—this is the third of four parts of Galaxy Blues, another novel in Steele’s Coyote universe.

The February line-up includes:
Short Stories:
“The Last American” by John Kessel—which “takes a grim and brutal look at a master manipulator”
“Sex and Violence” by Nancy Kress—a short-short story that just might explain the existence of life on Earth
“Inside the Box” by Edward M. Lerner—this is his first story for Asimov’s
Novelette:
“From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled…” by Michael Swanwick—the editorial note says that, though this story shares a place name with Swanwick’s new novel (The Dragons of Babel), “this completely unrelated new science fiction tale departs Shinar for Gehenna.”
“The Egg Man” by Mary Rosenblum
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner—this is a story about “the unforeseen repercussions of an incomprehensible alien device.”
Serial:
“The Great Beyond” by Allen M. Steele—this is the fourth and concluding part of Galaxy Blues, which will be the sixth novel in Steele’s Coyote universe. He blames all the Coyote work on the readers who “have demanded that I keep writing these books, and I’m all too happy to comply.”