Fantasy

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 ...

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, ...

An expedition to the Cretaceous provides more than one predator with a…

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 t...

Faced with an unbearably hard life in the “Factory,” even the radiation poisoning of the “up and out” seems preferable to a girl like…

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 ...

This is a short story about the meaninglessness of some actions in life. Have you ever done something for someone, knowing that it would not give you any ben...

Hard and mocking mini-dystopias, in each of which people of the future have to sacrifice some of the simple values...

Ironic and fascinating chronicles of humanity's first attempts to bring the benefits of earthly civilization to distant planets... Tough and mocking mini-dys...