The September 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 33, Number 9; Whole Number 404) goes on sale on 28 July. This issue will contain:
Novella:
“Broken Windchimes” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Novelette:
“Soulmates” by Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn
Short Stories:
“Away from Here” by Lisa Goldstein
“Camera Obscured” by Ferrett Steinmetz
“In Their Garden” by Brenda Cooper
“The Day Before the Day Before” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Tear-Down” by Benjamin Crowell
“Her Heart’s Desire” by Jerry Oltion
Poetry:
“Speculative Tai Chi” by Kendall Evans
“Nearly Ready for Occupation” by Danny Adams
“The Last Alchemist” by Bruce Boston
Departments:
Editorial: “The 2009 Dell Magazines Award” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Building Worlds: Part I” by Robert Silverberg
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On Books by Paul Di Filippo
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art, by John Picacio, illustrates “Away from Here”.
Steinmetz’s story is his first for Asimov’s; he graduated from the Clarion Writers’ Workshop last year. Oltion’s first publication came in 1981, and he won a Nebula in 1998, but this story is his first in Asimov’s.