Asimov's Science Fiction - December 2014

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Tim Sullivan’s breathtaking December novella reinvents language, relationships, societal structures, space travel, celestial objects, and much more. As “Anomaly Station” spins out of control, a haughty young man and an aging technician must work together to stay alive and salvage humanity’s major power source. But survival isn’t easy when suspicion of your partner runs deep, and you are guarding dark secrets of your own. Don’t miss this explosive end to 2014.
Robert Reed escorts us on a side trip from the Great Ship to “The Cryptic Age” for an intriguing origin myth; new to Asimov’s author Christopher East rolls the calendar back to a chilly December 1986 for a mysterious night at “Videoville”; new author Andrew Miller brings us to a bittersweet “Graduation”; Sue Burke reveals what really happened when the aliens landed near a couple’s “Summer Home”; new author Vernon Hedrick addresses a modern intergenerational divide and the timeless problem with the “Kids These Days”; and Gwendolyn Clare stokes our anxieties with a puzzling structure and her unsettling investigation of why “It Gets Bigger.”
In “Rereading S. Fowler Wright,” Robert Silverberg December Reflections column turns to the past for a Dantean perspective on the distant future; Peter Heck’s On Books reviews works by Gregory Benford & Larry Niven, Allen M. Steele, Tom Purdom, Lauren Owen, and Charles Stross; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and other features you’re sure to enjoy.