The September 2013 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 37, Number 9; Whole Number 452) goes on sale on 16 July. Contents of this issue will include:

Novelettes:
“The Discovered Country” by Ian R. MacLeod
“The Unparallel’d Death-Defying Feats of Astoundio, Escape Artist Extraordinaire” by Ian Creasey
“A Hole in the Ether” by Benjamin Crowell

Short Stories:
“What We Ourselves Are Not” by Leah Cypress
“As Yet Untitled” by James Sallis
“A Stranger From a Foreign Ship” by Tom Purdom
“The Universe We Both Dreamed Of” by Jay O’Connell
“What Changes You, What Takes You Away” by Dominica Phetteplace

Poetry:
“Ponies and Rocketships” by Leslie Anderson
“Teaching on Mars” by Alicia Cole
“Archive Copy” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
“The New Literary Canon” by Megan Arkenberg
“After We’re Gone” by Steve Rasnic Tem

Departments:
Editorial by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “Translations” by Robert Silverberg
Next Issue
On Books by Paul di Filippo
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss

The cover art is by Kinuko Craft.