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DECEMBER ISSUEl: Our lead story for December is by multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and World Fantasy Award-winner Michael Swanwick returns us to the bizarre milieu of “King Dragon,” “The Word That Sings the Scythe,” and “An Episode of Stardust,” half Faerie and half gritty science fiction, where haints and feys and elves mix with subways and motorcycles and mechanical dragons, for a dangerous journey deep into the unknown maze of tunnels beneath Babel Tower, as one dragon-haunted man dares to enter “Lord Weary's Empire” The question is, can he get out again? This is as vivid, exciting, and evocative a novella as you're going to read this year, so don't miss it!
ALSO IN DECEMBER: Popular new writer Paolo Bacigalupi plunges us into a harrowing but all-too-probable future Bangkok, as we share the nightmarish life endured by the “Yellow Card Man"; Hugo- and Nebula-winner Brian W. Aldiss, one of the giants of the field, takes us on a voyage that is anything but “Safe!,” either for the voyager or for the folks back home; new writer Ian Creasey shows us a future where the past is not prologue, but rather may be as good as it's going to get, as he examines “The Golden Record"; acclaimed British writer Christopher Priest, making a long-overdue Asimov's debut, takes us on “A Dying Fall” into what happens between your penultimate moment and your last; Robert Reed, one of our most popular and prolific contributors, paints an eccentric portrait of a peculiar society that for all its oddness is not only attractive but strangely “Plausible"; and new writer Susan Forest, making her Asimov's debut, demonstrates that when a deadly plague breaks out on a frontier planet, “Immunity” can cost more than you're really willing to pay for it.
EXCITING FEATURES: Robert Silverberg's “Reflections” column speaks of things “Flashing Before My Eyes"; and Peter Heck brings us “On Books"; plus an array of cartoons, poems, and other features. Look for our December issue on sale at your newsstand on October 10, 2006. Or subscribe today and be sure to miss none of the fantastic stuff we have coming up for you this year (you can also subscribe to Asimov's online, in varying formats, including in downloadable form for your PDA, by going to our website, www.asimovs.com).
COMING SOON: cerebellum-coiffing new tales by Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jack Dann, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Michael Swanwick, Allen M. Steele, Bruce McAllister, Tom Purdom, R. Neube, Jack Skillingstead, Colin C. Davies, A.R. Morlan, and many others.
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