Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - May/June 2023

In this issue

May/June 2023 features “Lemuria 7 Is Missing,” a thrilling new novella by Allen M. Steele. See if you can figure out the solution to this harrowing mystery! We’ve also crammed in an exciting novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson. Here the challenge is to survive the “Mars Gambit.” Don’t miss either tale.
We have a deeply moving story about a young person and a “Sexy Apocalypse Robot” from Sandra McDonald; Andy Dudak plunges us into an extremely tense tale about “Games Without Frontiers”; Chris Willrich provides us with clues for escaping “The Second Labyrinth”; we meet “The Fifteenth Saint’ in Ursula Whitcher’s new story; and Zack Be lets us know why “The Visions Are Free After Exit 73.” The perils of the “Boomerang” are revealed in a new story by Bill Johnson & Greg Frost; Lavie Tidhar breaks our hearts at the “Zoo Station”; and Tom Purdom provides us with an “Exit Contract.”
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections tends “The Garden of Deleted Words”; “Not Prediction, but Predication: The True Power of Science Fiction” is the subject of Ray Nayler’s Guest Editorial; James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net discusses the complicated process of “Translations”; Kelly Lagor’s Thought Experiment delves into “Shakespeare, Freud, and the Unconscious in Forbidden Planet; Kelly Jennings’s On Books reviews works by Stephen King, T. Kingfisher, John Scalzi, Kelly Robson, and others; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and additional features you’re sure to enjoy.