Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - July/August 2022

In this issue

Our July/August 2022 issue features Rick Wilber’s blockbuster alternate-history novella about “The Goose.” This story includes Nazi spies enmeshed in the movie industry, Hollywood personalities, high school sophomore and brilliant shortstop Billie the Kid, and even the Spruce Goose.
Revolution seems to be coming for Will McIntosh’s frozen Bridesicles in “Work Minus Eighty”; Jack McDevitt treats us to some “Cosmic Harmony”; Octavia Cade takes us to the beach to investigate “Pollen and Salt”; Jonathan Sherwood spins a complex tale of “Retrocausality”; in K.A. Teryna’s “Tin Pilot,” augmented veterans are hunted by their government; a desperate rescue mission on a distant planet rivets from beginning to end in Michèle Laframboise’s “Screaming Fire”; when a group of teenagers wake up early on “The Big Deep,” Annika Barranti Klein scrutinizes some suspicious behavior; Robert R. Chase explains why we should be cautious when exchanging fruit or much else on the “Goblin Market”; new author Megha Spinel’s non time-travel tale transports us to 92 A.D. to reveal “The Secret of Silphium”; Paul Melko transforms humanity in “Ugly”; and Michael Swanwick examines romance and the origins of time travel in “Reservoir Ice.”
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections column spends some time “Looking Backward”; we get a viewing of “Scream Dreams, the Sequel” in James Patrick Kelly’s latest On the Net; Peter Heck’s On Books reviews works by Charles Stross, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, Matthew Hughes, and others; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and additional features you’re sure to enjoy.