The August 2013 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 37, Number 8; Whole Number 451) goes on sale on 18 June. Contents of this issue will include:

Novella:
“The Application of Hope” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Novelettes:
“Stone to Stone, Blood to Blood” by Gwendolyn Clare
“Arlington” by Jack Skillingstead
“Lost Wax” by Gregory Norman Bossert

Short Story:
“The Ex-Corporal” by Leah Thomas

Poetry:
“Turing Tests” by Peter Chiykowski
“Telling the True” by Jane Yolen

Departments:
Editorial: “The 2013 Dell Magazines Award” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Rereading Simak” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “What Counts?” by James Patrick Kelly
Next Issue
On Books by Paul Di Filippo
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss

The cover art is by Les Edwards.