Asimov’s Science Fiction, November December 2020 by Kevin J Anderson

From its earliest days in 1977 under the editorial direction of Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine has maintained the tradition of publishing the best stories, unsurpassed in modern science fiction, from award-winning authors and first-time writers alike. In recent years, Asimov’s has placed more stories on the Final Hugo Ballot than all of its competitors combined, and more than twice as many as its closest competitor. Bestselling author Robert Silverberg calls Asimov’s “a truly distinguished magazine, worthy of being set beside such classics of the earlier golden ages as John W. Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction of 1939-42.” The Austin Chronicle lauds Asimov’s as “the most consistently innovative and readable SF magazine on the newsstands today.”

History
Have you ever wondered where George R. R. Martin’s Daenerys Targaryen first appeared on the printed page? Where Kim Stanly Robinson first staked his claim on “Green Mars”? Who first published Octavia E. Butler’s Hugo and Nebula Award winning short fiction? What magazine was home to the first professional fiction publications of Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, and Allen M. Steele? Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, of course.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
November/December 2020 Vol. 44 Nos. 11 & 12

1 – Guest Editorial – Where We Came from Is Where We’re Going by Allen M. Steele

2 – Reflections – Finding the Mountains of Madness by Robert Silverberg

3 – After a Year of Solitude by Lora Gray

4 – On the Net – What Information Wants by James Patrick Kelly

5 – Archaeologists Uncover Bones, Bifocals, a Tricycle by Steven Withrow

6 – Christmas at the Hilbert Astoria by Sam Schreiber

7 – The Mirages by Alaya Dawn Johnson

8 – The Hind by Kevin J. Anderson & Rick Wilber

9 – Grief, as Faithful as My Hound by Marissa Lingen

10 – Black Box Sonnet #13,041 by Garrison Kammer

11 – Forger Mr. Z by Chen Qiufan, (Translated by Andy Dudak)

12 – Protozoan Pride by Peter Payack

13 – Return From the Stars by James Gunn

14 – Footprint by Kate Maruyama

15 – Let Them Go by Darrell Schweitzer

16 – Pull It From the Root by Zack Be

17 – The Long Iapetan Night by Julie Novakova

18 – Return to Glory by Jack McDevitt

19 – Next Issue

20 – Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis

21 – On Books by Paul Di Filippo