The January 2014 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction (Volume 38, Number 1; Whole Number 456) goes on sale on 5 November. Contents of this issue will include:

Novelettes:
“Memorials” by Aliette de Bodard
“Primes” by Ron Collins
“The Common Good” by Nancy Kress

Short Stories:
“Extracted Journal Notes for an Ethnography of Bnebene Nomad Cultre” by Ian McHugh
“Static” by William Jablonksy
“The Carl Paradox” by Steve Rasnic Tem

Poetry:
“Transfiguration” by John Amen
“The Old Time Traveler’s Song” by William John Watkins
“At Lake Champlain” by E. Kristin Anderson

Departments:
Editorial: “A Once in a Lifetime Day” by Sheila Williams
Reflections: “The Plurality of Worlds: A Contrarian View” by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: “More Editing and Writing” by James Patrick Kelly
Next Issue
On Books by Paul Di Filippo
Twenty-Eighth Annual Readers’ Award
2013 Index
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss

The cover art is by Gromovataya.