The author of our vibrant cover story has recently published a new novel, American Woman (Forge), and a collection of short stories, The Moon Maid and Other Fantastic Adventures. Several of the tales in this collection were first published in...
Although he never met Avram Davidson in person, Michael Swanwick has always been a great admirer of his work. When the estate asked him to complete one of Avram’s unfinished stories, he was happy to do so. “Davidson was one of the great prose...
Kage Baker tells us that “it is a matter of recorded fact that Robert Louis Stevenson did go off alone into the mountains above Monterey in 1879, where he fell ill and lay delirious for three days under an oak tree, before being found by hunters....
Survival is the only currency...
For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood--and the extraordinary powers it confers to those known as the Blood-blessed--to fuel and protect its empire. But when the drake blood...
Kali Parks is a shadow in the war between two factions that are fighting to gain control of Chicago. Born and raised on the streets, she stands as a silent sentinel at her brother’s side as he battles to gain control. She will do whatever it...
James Patrick Kelly tells us he has “wanted to write a story that examined gender roles for a long time, and had notes about a three-sexed alien species that date back to 1990. I finally started the story because I needed something to bring to the...
Sarah Clemens is a legal medical illustrator. Her first story for Asimov’s is inspired by “memories of growing up in that strange place called the South, where there’s an eccentric relative in every family and the Civil War is still referred...
Our last tale from M. Shayne Bell, “Mrs. Lincoln’s China” (July 1994), was a finalist for the 1995 Hugo award. His beautiful new story evokes the African continent of H. Rider Haggard and other nineteenth-century authors. A continent that was...