The October/November 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 34, Numbers 10 & 11; Whole Numbers 417 & 418) goes on sale 31 August. Contents of this issue include:
Novellas:
“Becoming One With the Ghosts” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Several Items of Interest” by Rick Wilber
Novelettes:
“Torhec the Sculptor” by Tanith Lee
“Frankenstein, Frankenstein” by Will McIntosh
Short Stories:
“Names for Water” by Kij Johnson
“The Incarceration of Captain Nebula” by Mike Resnick
“No Distance Too Great” by Don D’Ammassa
“The Termite Queen of Tallulah County” by Felicity Shoulders
“Dummy Tricks” by R. Neube
“Changing the World” by Kate Wilhelm
“Under the Thumb of the Brain Patrol” by Ferrett Steinmetz
Poetry:
“Roadside Stand” by Mark Rich
“Foxwife” by Jane Yolen
“Welcome Home” by Janis Ian
“All That Matters” by Roger Dutcher
“Tourists from Outer Space” by Darrell Schweitzer
Departments:
Editorial: “Mermaids and Pink Elephants” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Ghost Stories” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “Face the Tweets” by James Patrick Kelly
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On Books: “Time, Space, and Culture” by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art is the Witch Head Nebula, from NASA/STScI Digitized Sky Survey/Noel Carboni.