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...
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...
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...
Ian McDonald’s new tale, which begins with a passionate love story and takes us to the end of the universe and beyond, is set against the same background as his 1995 novel Terminal Café (Bantam). The author’s latest SF novel, Kirinya, is just...