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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The satisfying thump you'll hear next month is the arrival of our outstanding October/November double issue in your home's mailbox. We've done our best to cram the 240 pages of it to the breaking point, starting with not one, but two striking novellas by two of your favorite Asimov's authors. Our first, by Nebula and Hugo award-winning dynamo Nancy Kress, concerns the bizarre goings-on in a managed care home where the elderly residents are unsure whether the startling effects of "The Erdmann Nexus" are age specific, scientific, or metaphysic! Next, Hugo winner Robert Reed returns with a claustrophobic, troubling meditation on justice and the lengths frightened government interrogators are willing to go to find the "Truth" according to an imprisoned terrorist from the future. We're sure this will be considered one of 2008's most talked-about and controversial stories.

Peter Higgins, making his impressive Asimov's debut, presents a haunting tale, reminiscent of the best of Tanith Lee, about a naval officer who hears a lot more than expected while "Listening for Submarines"; the acclaimed Gord Sellar returns with "Dhuluma No More," a counterpoint to Robert Reed's novella from the perspective of a desperate African terrorist in an uncertain future; Ian R. MacLeod presents a striking reversal of British history, recounting the bloody affair of "The English Mutiny"; Brandon Sanderson, the young talent currently completing the late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time saga, pens his debut for Asimov's, an action-packed SF novelette, "Defending Elysium"; Jack Skillingstead entertainingly explains why someone left a "Cat in the Rain"; Leslie What returns with a charming piece about the trouble a bottomless wallet may cause when "Money Is No Object"; and Sara Genge, making her Asimov's debut, treats us to a sad day in the life of some unusual aliens in "Prayers for an Egg."

Robert Silverberg honors Murray Leinster's fecund imagination by "Beaming It Down" in his "Reflections" column; James Patrick Kelly examines various "Alternativities" in "On the Net"; Norman Spinrad predicts a future of "Post-Genre Speculative Fiction" in "On Books"; plus an array of poetry. Look for our October/November double issue at your newsstand on September 2, 2008. Or you can subscribe to Asimov's--by mail or online, in varying formats, including downloadable forms, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com. We're also now available on Amazon.com's Kindle!

Department: EDITORIAL: THE 2008 DELL MAGAZINES AWARD by Sheila Williams
Department: REFLECTIONS:: BEAMING IT DOWN by Robert Silverberg
Department: ON THE NET: ALTERNATIVITY by James Patrick Kelly
Novella: THE ERDMANN NEXUS by Nancy Kress
Short Story: LISTENING FOR SUBMARINES by Peter Higgins
Short Story: PRAYERS FOR AN EGG by Sara Genge
Poetry: THE FIRST DANCERS by Michael Meyerhofer
Novelette: DEFENDING ELYSIUM by Brandon Sanderson
Short Story: MONEY IS NO OBJECT by Leslie What
Poetry: RETURN OF ZOMBIE TEEN ANGST by Mike Allen
Short Story: 'DHULUMA' NO MORE by Gord Sellar
Novelette: THE ENGLISH MUTINY by Ian R. MacLeod
Poetry: GOODBYE BILLY GOAT GRUFF by Jane Yolen
Short Story: CAT IN THE RAIN by Jack Skillingstead
Poetry: A CRISIS OF FOREST by Sandra Lindow
Novella: TRUTH by Robert Reed
Department: ON BOOKS: POST-GENRE SPECULATIVE FICTION by Norman Spinrad
Department: SF CONVENTIONAL CALENDAR by Erwin S. Strauss
Department: NEXT ISSUE

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2008

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