Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2008

by Sheila Williams (Editor), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Contributor), Kathleen Ann Goonan (Contributor)

CONTENTS

Novella
"The Room of Lost Souls" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Novelettes
"Memory Dog" by Kathleen Ann Goonan
"An Alien Heresy" by S. P. Somtow
"Strangers When We Meet" by Kate Wilhelm

Short Stories
"Slidin'" by Neal Barrett, Jr.
"The House Left Empty" by Robert Reed
"An Almanac For the Alien Invaders" by Merrie Haskell
"An Art, Like Everything Else" by Nick Wolven
"Ghost Town" by Catherine Wells
"Another Country" by Matthew Johnson
"The Advocate" by Barry B. Longyear

Poetry
"Gargoyle People" by Bruce Boston
"Speak Without Gravity" by Mark Rich
"Robo-Cat®" by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
"The Lunarcheologist Requests" by Greg Beatty
"The Flying Dutchman" by Bryan D. Dietrich
"Children" by P M F Johnson
"Robot Cat" by Roger Dutcher
"Deaths on Other Planets" by Joanne Merriam

Departments
"Editorial: 31" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Rereading Stapledon" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books: The Multiverse" by Norman Spinrad
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss

Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2008, Vol. 32, Nos. 4-5 (Whole Nos. 387-388)
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Donato Giancola

244 pages, Perfectbound

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

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Sheila Williams is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form.

Sheila grew up in a family of five in western Massachusetts. Her mother had a master's degree in microbiology. Ms. Williams’ interest in science fiction came from her father who read Edgar Rice Burroughs books to her as a child. Later Ms. Williams received a bachelor's degree from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, although she studied at the London School of Economics during her junior year. She received her Master's from Washington University in St. Louis. She is married to David Bruce and has two daughters.

She became interested in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (as it was then titled) while studying philosophy at Washington University. In 1982 she was hired at the magazine, and worked with Isaac Asimov for ten years. While working there, she co-founded the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (at one time called the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing). In 2004, with the retirement of Gardner Dozois, she became the editor of the magazine.

Along with Gardner Dozois she also edited the "Isaac Asimov's" anthology series. She also co-edited A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women (2001) with Connie Willis. Most recently she has edited a retrospective anthology of fiction published by Asimov's: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology. Booklist called the book "A gem, and a credit to editor Williams."
She has been nominated for 4 Hugo Awards as editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

See also Sheila Williams's entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.