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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2009
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David A. Hardy's spectacular December cover illustrates a story as hard to capture in a single image as it was to imagine in the first place: "Formidable Caress," the latest of Stephen Baxter's "Tales of Old Earth." Old Earth, you may remember (though you don't have to) is a most peculiar place where time is layered, running at different rates at different altitudes. That's what makes it possible to experience a drama on such a colossal scale that it would at first seem intrinsically beyond the ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009
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Stories both sweet and savory await you in our piquant December issue--and something for almost every taste. The more sophisticated palates among us often prefer both flavors intertwined, and Brian Stableford posits, in his newest novelette for us, that "Some Like It Hot." Don't fear--there will be no sign of either Tony Curtis or Jack Lemmon dressed as not-so-lovely ladies (and sadly no sign of Marilyn, either), but, instead, we offer a sophisticated fictional treatise on the future of commerci... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2009
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Our December issue is here, and it's our favorite time of year: Time for you to send us your 2009 Readers Award ballots, and tell us which of the year's stories you liked best! Before making your choices, be sure to read this last issue of 2009. See mysteries unfold by paper trail, first in a series of letters to an old school chum, in Richard A. Lupoff's "Patterns," then in a teenager's journal washed up on the Jersey shore, in David Dean, "Erin's Journal." Catch a glimpse of a criminal: a neig... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 2009
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Mexico, India, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are just a few of the places where the December issue finds charming thieves, wily con artists, and murderous moneymen. The Chevalier Remy descends into the depths of the seventeenth century Parisian underworld in R. T. Lawton's "Boudin Noir." A slave called Colm in ancient Iceland proves to be calm and quick thinking in the midst of murderous passions in Mike Culpepper's "The Trollfarm Killing." In Iain Rowain's eerie story "Nowhere To Go," a homebound ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2009
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Our November issue features a dramatic cover by an old Analog favorite, Vincent Di Fate, for a two-part serial by G. David Nordley, To Climb a Flat Mountain. If you're marooned in an unfamiliar environment, obviously the first order of business is survival, which is even more of a challenge if, the more you learn about where you are, the less sense your surroundings make. The world Nordley has created here is one that shouldn't even exist, but he's done his usual admirable job of making it belie... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2009
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No room here to be clever about our fabulous October/November double issue, so let�s begin: Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore contribute a literary tale of loss and personal redemption amidst the curious life cycle of an insect known as the "Blood Dauber"; Heather Lindsley, making her Asimov�s debut, tells of the troubles experienced by time-traveling wage-slaves who answer the eternal question of just "Where the Time Goes"; R. Garcia y Robertson returns to his Burroughs-inspired milieu for a j... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2009
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Our October issue starts with a bang, with a Bob Eggleton cover for Michael F. Flynn's novella, "Where the Winds Are All Asleep," a unique and literally deep adventure story. You may think our world has been thoroughly explored, and indeed our knowledge of it has been growing by leaps and bounds. Can it still hold surprises? The answer may be right under your feet, and far bigger (and scarier) than you'd guess.
The rest of our diverse grab bag of fiction comes from both old favorites (like Jerr... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact: One Year Subscription
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact began as Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930, and has continuously published the vanguard of SF with an emphasis on science--helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card, to name a few. This subscription includes a whole year's set of eBook issues: eight monthly single issues (regular newsstand price $3.99) and two double-issues--January/February and July/August (regu... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2009
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Our July/August "double" issue features two big stories. The cover is for "Seed of Revolution," the latest and possibly the best of Daniel Hatch's series about Chamal, the world where evolution works very differently than it does on Earth. (No, it doesn't matter if you haven't read the earlier stories; in fact, you may get a clearer understanding of Chamal's bizarre biology from this story than from any of its predecessors.) The differences necessarily color the way its inhabitants look at every... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2009
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People often wish they could keep their youth forever, but what if they really could, in an extreme way? And what if somebody else makes that decision for them, to keep the physical and mental advantages of a child while gaining some of the best features of adulthood? That's what happens in "Evergreen," Shane Tourtellotte's lead novelette in our September issue. And, as so often happens, the ramifications of a choice that sounds simple are far more complex and less clear-cut than those who make ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction: One Year Subscription
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Asimov's Science Fiction, first published in 1977, has become science fiction's most lauded publication. Stories from Asimov's have earned more Hugos and Nebulas in the past 20 years than any other publication, and the editors of Asimov's have won 16 Hugos for Best Editor in that time. Works in Asimov's range from hard to literary to more fantastical SF, as well as fantasy and a touch of horror. This subscription includes a whole year's set of eBook issues: eight monthly single issues (regular n... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Two Year Subscription
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact began as Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930, and has continuously published the vanguard of SF with an emphasis on science--helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card, to name a few. This subscription includes a whole year's set of eBook issues: eight monthly single issues (regular newsstand price $3.99) and two double-issues--January/February and July/August (regu... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2009
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Next month we celebrate all that is fine and good about science fiction in our April/May double issue; a bargain at any price, for it has two excellent novellas on offer, as well as a piquant melange of shorter works, all by some of the best writers in the genre.
Our lead novella, with a striking cover image courtesy of SF artist Paul Youll, is Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "The Spires of Denon," a stand-alone addition to her popular "Diving into the Wreck" universe. This time we find a group of arc... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2009
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World Fantasy- and Stoker-Award finalist Michael Blumlein makes his Asimov's debut in our August issue with the tender, witty, and beautifully written "California Burning." In it, a man, eager to bury his recently passed father, finds the task is much more difficult than he'd expected. Along the way, he also discovers that his father wasn't quite who he seemed, and that dealing with the aftermath of a parent's death is a much riskier and difficult affair when that parent may not have been from t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2009
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Our June issue has a couple of linked, unusual, and immediately obvious traits: the cover illustrates a piece of writing by the artist himself, and that piece is a fact article, not a story. Michael Carroll, well known and regarded as both artist and writer, recently got an inside look at NASA's plans for a project to build an actual settlement on the Moon in the relatively near future, and shares that vision with us here.
As usual, the fiction covers quite a bit of ground, including an alterna... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2009
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch, one of this year's Readers' Award winners, returns with another big novella, this time set in a wholly new universe from her "Diving into the Wreck" series. In "Broken Windchimes," a talented human vocalist, culturally sequestered by his alien patrons, finds both hope and transcendence through the unknown pleasures of his own race's music. Lisa Goldstein, Nebula-nominee at time of writing, returns with a tale of a circus you can't quite run away to join in "Away from Her... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, first published in 1977, has become science fiction's most lauded publication. Stories from Asimov's have earned more Hugos and Nebulas in the past 20 years than any other publication, and the editors of Asimov's have won 16 Hugos for Best Editor in that time. Works in Asimov's range from hard to literary to more fantastical SF, as well as fantasy and a touch of horror. This subscription includes a whole year's set of eBook issues: eight monthly single issues (regular n... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September-October 2009
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Our September/October double issue brings you twice the stories and twice the thrills! Veteran storytellers Clark Howard and Peter Turnbull offer two different approaches to organized crime: A crime boss must decide whom he can trust when the feds start closing in, in the Howard thriller "The Way They Limp," and detectives Hennessy and Yellich investigate the contract-killing of an apparently ordinary man in the Turnbull procedural "Mob Violence." Dale C. Andrews brings us an old-fashioned whodu... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2009
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Adam-Troy Castro is back in our May issue with "Among the Tchi," a sneaky bit of satire that I suspect will ring a bell with lots of readers. It has a great variety of company, with stories by Tom Ligon, Alexis Glynn Latner, Robert R. Chase, Shane Tourtellotte, and Steven Gould featuring an invigorating mix of adventure, alien worlds, and a touch of romance, among other things--always including, above all, imagination and thought-provoking entertainment.
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Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2009
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Those of us who somehow find ourselves straddling the generation gap, as described by James Patrick Kelly in this month's On the Net, are the lucky ones: we are able to enjoy stories by the science fiction luminaries of today and tomorrow, all presented in Asimov's.
Consider next month's novella feature by hard SF master Stephen Baxter. "Earth II" is a sprawling, exciting adventure across a massive world filled with mystery, beauty, and danger. Upon this grand landscape, the descendants of the ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2009
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Next month we celebrate an auspicious anniversary--that of the twenty-fifth anniversary of James Patrick Kelly's famed June stories. Not only have these June stories offered some of Kelly's most honored works over the years--the Hugo winning "Think Like a Dinosaur" and "10 to 16 to 1" and the Nebula nominated "Undone," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and "Men Are Trouble" are some notable examples--they've also proven to be some of the most popular stories in our annual Readers' Award polling. You like him... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2009
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Revealed in our May issue: The winners of the 2008 Readers Award! And the wide-ranging stories in this issue include a puzzling case of murder and "Identity Theft" for Jon Breen's detectives Berwanger and Foley; a tongue-in-cheek snapshot of a demonic bureaucrat's daily life in Hell, in Marilyn Todd's "667, Evil and Then Some;" a married couple falling apart after their move to France in Caroline Benton's "L'Etang du Diable;" a new case for Terence Faherty's 1950s Hollywood PI Scott Elliott, in ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July-August 2009
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Mystery stories are about the pursuit of justice, but sometimes that pursuit takes a wrong turn. As several of this month's stories demonstrate, the disinterested pursuit of justice can be particularly difficult during times of crisis, as in Loren D. Estleman's WWII-era procedural, "Soft Lights and Sabotage"; when addressing emotionally-charged topics, as in D. A. McGuire's "The Disappearance of Billy Dawber"; or when mixed with the heady scent of celebrity, as in Brendan DuBois's "The High Hous... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November 2009
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It's awards season in mysterydom, and we have several authors to congratulate. Jane K. Cleland's "Killing Time" (November 2008), featuring antiques dealer Josie Prescott, was a finalist for the Best Short Story Agatha Award at the Malice Domestic convention in May, and is currently a finalist for the Anthony Award for best story; the Anthonys will be presented at the 40th Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Indianapolis in October.
Several other awards are also announced during Bouchercon: t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2009
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The stories in AHMM are often bought months before they are published, and of course are written even earlier than that. When we bought Mike Wiecek's satiric "Colorblind" earlier this year, we enjoyed its social commentary, but as we prepared it for publication in this issue, we realized that it has become unexpectedly topical. Though the bug Mr. Wiecek created for his story is very different from the pandemic known colloquially as "Swine Flu," his vision of the public, governmental, and media r... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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