The August 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 34, Number 8; Whole Number 415) goes on sale 27 July. Contents of this issue include:
Novelettes:
“Crimes, Follies, Misfortunes, and Love” by Ian Creasey
“Warning Label” by Alexander Jablokov
“Slow Boat” by Gregory Norman Bossert
Short Stories:
“Superluminosity” by Alan Wall
“The Lovely Ugly” by Carol Emshwiller
“The Battle of Little Big Science” by Pamela Rentz
“The Witch, The Tinman, The Flies” by J.M. Sidorova
“On the Horizon” by Nick Wolven
Poetry:
“Cultural Boundaries” by F.J. Bergmann
“A Wrong Turn” by Elizabeth Penrose
“The Great Peeloff” by Qadira P. Garger
Departments:
Editorial: “The 2010 Dell Magazines Awards” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Brave New Words” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “Brave New Worlds” by James Patrick Kelly
Next Issue
On Books by Peter Heck
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art is by Michael Whelan.
Rentz’s story is her first professional sale. Wall’s is his first story for Asimov’s. Sidorova’s story is her first professional sale in her adopted language of English (her first sales were in her native Russian).