Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1990

by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Judith Moffett, Mary Rosenblum

CONTENTS

Novella
"The Ragged Rock" by Judith Moffett

Novelette
"Targets" by Mark W. Tiedemann

Short Stories
"Cibola" by Connie Willis
"Space Aliens Saved My Marriage" by Sharon N. Farber
"Frames of Light" by Lawrence Person
"A Woman's Ritual" by Cherry Wilder
"Evenings, Mornings, Afternoons" by Bridget McKenna
"Bedside Conversations" by Brian Stableford
"The Gadarene Dig" by Phillip C. Jennings
"Floodtide" by Mary Rosenblum
"Wild for You" by Lewis Shiner

Poetry
"Astrology Column" by Joe Haldeman
"For the Killed Astronauts" by Tony Daniel
"A Dragon's Yuletide Shopping List" by James Patrick Kelly and Robert Frazier
"Metafossil" by William John Watkins
"Maybe Together" by Don Webb

Departments
"Editorial: Imagination" by Isaac Asimov
"Letters"
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1990, Vol. 14, No. 13 (Whole No. 164)
Gardner R. Dozois, editor
Cover art by Michael Whelan

196 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1990

About the author

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.
Wikipedia entry: Gardner Dozois

http://us.macmillan.com/author/gardne...

Reviews

[Kevin Phyland · Rating 4 out of 5]

When a features columnist gets assigned to a story about a woman claiming to be related to a tracker for Coronado, and who knows the location of the seven cities of gold, she gets to write a whole different and rather beautiful story in “Cibola” by Connie Willis. Mark W. Tiedemann gives us the sinister tale of a female agent in Spain infiltrating Basque separatists but capable of inflicting fatal STDs in “Targets”, while Brian Stableford gives us the story of a male gay couple who must deal wit the unusual medical problem of fetus in fetu - an enclosed twin zygote which later starts to form a baby - and the legal and familial problems it engenders in “Bedside Conversations”. Phillip C. Jennings takes us to an archaelogical site in Jordan where two men encounter a most unexpected live snakelike being in “The Gadarene Dig”, and Mary Rosenblum shows us a father so scared of being alone that he drags his son into a situation more dangerous than his impending interstellar mission in “Floodtide”. Closing the issue Judith Moffett takes us to the radioactive wastelands of Philadelphia after a nuclear meltdown where a young boy fights a losing battle against the grief of the loss of his best friend until a surprising offer from the alien Hefn in “The Ragged Rock”.