The October/November 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 33, Numbers 10 and 11; Whole Numbers 405 and 406) goes on sale today, 1 September. This issue contains:
Novella:
“The Sea of Dreams” by William Barton
Novelettes:
“Blood Dauber” by Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore
“Wife-Stealing Time” by R. Garcia y Robertson
“Flowers of Asphodel” by Damien Broderick
“Flotsam” by Elissa Malcohn
“The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter” by Christopher Barzak
Short Stories:
“Where the Time Goes” by Heather Lindsley
“Erosion” by Ian Creasey
“Before My Last Breath” by Robert Reed
“Deadly Sins” by Nancy Kress
Poetry:
“Derivative Work” by Elissa Malcohn
“For Ye, Of Very Little Faith” by W. Gregory Stewart
“Monsters” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“Unghost Stories” by Greg Beatty
“The Hedge Witch’s Upgrade” by Sandra Lindow
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Bryan D. Dietrich
Departments:
Editorial: “True Confessions” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Building Worlds: Part II” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “The People’s Telescope” by James Patrick Kelly
Thought Experiments: “Almost Possible” by Mary Robinette Kowal
Next Issue
On Books: “The Folk of the Fringe” by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art is by Dominic Harman.
Barzak’s and Lindsley’s stories are each their first for Asimov’s. Malcohn’s is her third in the magazine, following a 23-year hiatus (her debut was in November 1984, and her second appearance was in Mid-December 1986). Kosmatka & Poore’s story is the former’s fifth sale to the magazine, but the latter’s first.