 Asimov's Science Fiction magazine has announced the contents for their July 2008 issue (Vol. 32, No. 7; whole number 390). The cover art (at right) is by Tor Lundvall.
Novella:
"The Philosopher's Stone" by Brian Stableford
Novelettes:
"Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" by Gord Sellar
"Vinegar Peace, or, the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" by Michael Bishop
Short Stories:
"The Woman Under the World" by Steven Utley
"Cascading Violet Hair" by R. Neube
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson
Poetry:
"Light Across an Impossible Lake" by Mark Rich
Departments:
Editorial: "Two Robots and an Alien Walk into a Bar" by Sheila Williams
Reflections: "Rereading Stapledon II" by Robert Silverberg
In Memoriam: Janet Kagan
Letters
Thought Experiments: "When the Whole World Looked Up" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
On Books by Paul Di Filippo
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
Sellar's story is his first in Asimov's. He was born in Malawi, grew up in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan, and lives in South Korea.
Stableford's story is his "third novella concerning the alternate adventures of some famous sixteenth century personalities…".
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