The August 2011 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 35, Number 8; Whole Number 427) goes on sale 21 June. Contents of this issue will include:
Novelettes:
“The End of the Line” by Robert Silverberg
“Corn Teeth” by Melanie Tem
“Paradise is a Walled Garden” by Lisa Goldstein
Short Stories:
“Watch Bees” by Philip Brewer
“For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again” by Michael Swanwick
“We Were Wonder Scouts” by Will Ludwigsen
“Pairs” by Zachary Jernigan
Poetry:
“Bribing Karma” by Danny Adams
“The Music of Nessie” by Bruce Boston
Departments:
Editorial: “The 2011 Dell Magazines Award” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Earth is the Strangest Planet” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “Writing Lessons” by James Patrick Kelly
Next Issue
On Books by Peter Heck
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
The cover art is by Jeroen Advocaat.
Brewer’s story is his first in Asimov’s. Silverberg’s is a new Majipoor tale, the events of which predate those in “The Time of the Burning” (March 1982).