Asimov's Science Fiction - July 2014

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The July 2014 issue brings the multiple Hugo-Award-winning Allen M. Steele back to our pages with a mysterious novella concerning the enigmatic “Legion of Tomorrow.” Although at first glance this puzzling organization seems to simply represent science fiction’s rich past, it soon becomes clear that their plans for the future may offer humanity’s best shot at an adventuresome new day.

While Allen’s story starts us on our journey toward tomorrow, Alexander Jablokov gets us all the way there with an anecdote about an academic working long after our own time who learns more about himself than the past in “The Instructive Tale of the Archeologist and His Wife”; “The Woman from the Ocean” is a distant traveler who returns from a generations-spanning space voyage to find a much altered humanity in Karl Bunker’s new story; new author Evan Fuller brings us back to the near future for a
look at corporate politics in “Five Six Seven”; Sandra McDonald returns to our own time for a heartbreaking tale about a young woman with an unusual talent and those around her who become a part of the “Story of Our Lives”; M. Bennardo muses on “How Do I Get to Last Summer From Here?”; and then we’ll hop back to a future where the players may remind us of today—but life as we know it is almost unrecognizable—and accept our invitation to Robert Reed’s terrifying “Blood Wedding.”

Robert Silverberg’s Reflections asks the stunning question— “Was Jules Verne a Science Fiction Writer?”; Norman Spinrad’s On Books analyzes “Retro Versus Visionary”; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and other features you’re sure to enjoy.