Asimov's Science Fiction - February 2014

In dieser Ausgabe

February 2014 leads off with “Schools of Clay,” an exciting new hard science fiction novelette by Derek Künsken. The action never lets up in this fast-paced tale about aliens whose life cycle incorporates time travel and black holes. First-time Asimov’s
author, Maurice Broaddus, wraps up the issue with a thrilling steampunk novelette set in an alternate Jamaica. History is wonderfully re-imagined and explored in the life-and-deathstruggle for “Steppin’ Razor”!

Sarah Pinsker travels through space to make her Asimov’s debut with a poignant look at a recently widowed photographer offered the chance to document “The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province”; Jason K. Chapman investigates life after “The Long Happy Death of Oxford Brown”; longpublished, but new to Asimov’s, author Marissa Lingen lightens our mood with the insightful “Ask Citizen Etiquette”; M. Bennardo treats us to a wistful “Last Day at the Ice Man Café”; and “Ball and Chain,” Maggie Shen King’s first story for Asimov’s, reveals the future of marriage in a gender imbalanced China.

Robert Silverberg’s Reflections presents us with the startling joy of “Rereading Philip José Farmer”; Peter Heck’s On Books muses on the works of Connie Willis, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Moriarty, and others; plus we’ll have an array of poetry that you’re sure to enjoy!