The April/May 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 33, Numbers 4 and 5; Whole Numbers 399 and 400) goes on sale on 3 March. The four hundredth issue (it debuted as a quarterly in Spring 1977) will contain:
Novellas:
“The Great Armada” by Brian Stableford
“The Spires of Denon” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Novelettes:
“The Armies of Elfland” by Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick
“This Wind Blowing, and This Tide” by Damien Broderick
Short Stories:
“True Fame” by Robert Reed
“An Ordinary Day with Jason” by Kate Wilhelm
“Atomic Truth” by Chris Beckett
“Human Day” by Jack Skillingstead
“Cowgirls in Space” by Deborah Coates
“Exegesis” by Nancy Kress
Poetry:
“Small Conquerors” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“We Ignore Him” by PMF Johnson
“Bridges” by Peter Roberts
Departments:
Editorial: “400” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Rereading Van
Vogt” by Robert Silverberg
Next Issue
On Books: “What Killed Tom Disch?” by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art, by Paul Youll, is for “The Spires of Denon”.
Stableford’s story is “the last in a series of tales about the galactic adventures of such sixteenth century luminaries as Sir Walter Raleigh, Edwin De Vere, John Dee, and Francis Drake”.
Gunn and Swanwick’s collaboration is “one of several stories [the pair] drafted online, in real time, as part of the Clarion West Write-a-thon in 2007.”