The April/May 2011 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 35, Numbers 4 & 5; Whole Numbers 423 & 424) is now on sale. Contents of this issue include:
Novelettes:
“The Day the Wires Came Down” by Alexander Jablokov
“Clockworks” by William Preston
“A Response from EST17” by Tom Purdom
“Becalmed” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Short Stories:
“An Empty House with Many Doors” by Michael Swanwick
“The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick
“North Shore Friday” by Nick Mamatas
“The Fnoor Hen” by Rudy Rucker
“Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak
“The One That Got Away” by Esther M. Friesner
“The Flow and Dream” by Jack Skillingstead
Poetry:
“Religion is Canceled” by Danny Adams
“Ballad of the Warbots” by Jack O’Brien
“Monsters of the Stratosphere” by Darrel Schweitzer
“Garden Fairies” by Jane Yolen
“Seeking Out Lobe-Finned Truths” by Robert Frazier
“Black Hole” by William John Watkins
Departments:
Editorial: “Rose-Tinted Goggles” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “More About the Plot Genie” by Robert Silverberg
Thought Experiments: “Celebrating Isaac” by James Gunn
On Books: “Urbi et Orbi” by Norman Spinrad
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art is by Benjamin Carre.