Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine has announced the contents for their October/November 2008 double issue (Vol. 32, Nos. 10 & 11; whole numbers 393 & 394). The cover art is by Virgil Finlay. This issue goes on sale on 2 September.
Novellas:
“The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress
“Truth” by Robert Reed
Novelettes:
“Defending Elysium” by Brandon Sanderson
“The English Mutiny” by Ian R. MacLeod
Short Stories:
“Listening for Submarines” by Peter Higgins
“Prayers for an Egg” by Sara Genge
“Money is No Object” by Leslie What
“Dhuluma No More” by Gord Sellar
“Cat in the Rain” by Jack Skillingstead
Poetry:
“The First Dancers” by Michael Meyerhofer
“Return of Zombie Teen Angst” by Mike Allen
“Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff” by Jane Yolen
“A Crisis of Forest” by Sandra Lindow
Departmennts:
Editorial: “The 2008 Dell Magazines Award” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Beaming it Down” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “Alternativity” by James Patrick Kelly
On Books: “Post-Genre Speculative Fiction” by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
Genge’s and Higgins’s short stories are each their first sale to Asimov’s; both have been published in other, smaller magazines. Sanderson’s novelette is his first sale to Asimov’s; he recently completed the unfinished final volume in the late Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” series, which Tor will soon publish.