The August 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 33, Number 8; Whole Number 403) goes on sale on 23 June. This issue will contain:
Novelettes:
“The Qualia Engine” by Damien Broderick
“California Burning” by Michael Blumlein
Short Stories:
“Creatures of Well-Defined Habits” by Robert Reed
“Blue” by Derek Zumsteg
“The Consciousness Problem” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“Two Boys” by Steven Popkes
“Turbulence” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Poetry:
“Chicken from Minsk” by Karin L. Frank
“Osteometry” by Erin Hoffman
“Doing Splits” by Ruth Berman
“And My Sinuses are Killing Me” by Tina Connolly
“Human Resources” by F.J. Bergmann
Departments:
Editorial: “2009 Readers’ Awards” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Adventures in the Far Future II” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “And the Winner Is” by James Patrick Kelly
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On Books
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art, by John Jude Palencar, originally appeared as the cover of Stephen King’s The Drawing of the Three from his Dark Tower series.
Kowal’s story is her first for Asimov’s; she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer last year. Blumlein’s, too, is his first story for the magazine.