Asimov's Science Fiction - August 2014

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Although fiction by Jay O’Connell has lately become something of a staple in our pages, August 2014 brings us his first long story. As Earth’s immanent doom from nuclear bombs and asteroid impacts looms, Jay’s novella offers us a shining ray of hope that the timeline as we know it may indeed be the best “Of All Possible Worlds.”

Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Nancy Kress returns to Asimov’s with an amusing novelette about that most painful of all authorial conditions, “Writer’s Block”; Sarah Pinsker reminds us of family, grief, love, and “The Low Hum of Her”; life is full of unsung heroes, but it may be a while before we forget about the protagonist of Nick Wolven’s powerful “Placebo”; a teenager learns to appreciate his grandmother’s lifelong commitment to wildlife and much more in brand new author Doug C. Souza’s “Mountain Screamers”; and the unquestioning loyalty of humanity’s best friend is poignantly depicted in Jeremiah Tolbert’s “Wet Fur.”

Robert Silverberg’s Reflections investigates the unusual “Longevity” of so many gifted SF writers; the exciting mélange of books reviewed in Paul Di Filippo’s On Books includes works by L.E. Modesitt, H.H. Monro, John Shirley, and Ann Leckie; James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net explains why “It’s Educational”; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and other features you’re sure to enjoy.