The July/August 2025 cover for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. The cover story is The Chronolithographer's Assistant, by Suzanne Palmer. The illustration depict a young man in old fashioned clothing turning the wheel on a lithograph press. There are vessels of brightly coloured liquids on nearby tables and shelves. The background is dissolved into fuzzy shapes of trees, with two malevolent-looking futuristic drones emerging.

As a mail subscriber to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine, I get a vote in their 2025 reader's awards. It was fun to go back and re-read my favourite stories for the year to decide my rankings:

Best Novella:
1. Quantum Ghosts, #NancyKress
2. The […]

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Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, with cover story 'Spares Parts for the Mind' by Greg Egan, plus stories by Tegan Moore, Ray Nayler, Sean McMullen, Sean Monaghan, Allen M. Steele, and Susan Schwartz.

The most recent #AsimovsScienceFiction to appear in my mailbox features an absorbing cover future story from #GregEgan about a dementia sufferer's experimental brain implants that lead him to a partial recovery, but also highlights a world of techbro hype […]

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Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, with cover story 'The Ghost' by John Kessel, and other stories by Ted Kosmatka, Leah Cypess, Karen Heuler, Alexander Jablokov, and Bruce Sterling & Paul Di Filippo

Slightly odd issue of #AsimovsScienceFiction with four of ten stories which I wouldn't call science fiction at all. Not that I'm particularly invested in policing genre boundaries, but it seems strange to stray so far from the magazine's strengths. My […]

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Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, with cover story 'The Ghost' by John Kessel, and other stories by Ted Kosmatka, Leah Cypess, Karen Heuler, Alexander Jablokov, and Bruce Sterling & Paul Di Filippo

New #AsimovsScienceFiction in the mail! Looking forward to getting started on it once I've finished my current read.

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@scifi Finished the July/August issue of #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine. A bit of a rollercoaster of quality this issue, with the low point a story by Dominica Phetteplace that I found remarkably clumsily written. But, more importantly, very high high points: #RichLarson with a story that […]

Cover of July/August edition of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Cover story is The Chronolithographer's Assistant by Suzanne Palmer. Also advertised are Tobias S. Buckle, Derek Künsken, Rich Larson, Dominica Phettepkace, Robert Reed.

New edition of #AsimovsScienceFiction just arrived in the mail! Looking forward to the #RichLarson in particular. @scifi

Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, May/June 2025. Cover story is Woolly, by Carrie Vaughn. Image of wooly mammoths on a hill side, with a house and car in the foreground.

New #AsimovsScienceFiction delivered. So far I've only read the #HarryTurtledove story, which was great fun. Looking forward to the rest! @scifi

Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. The cover art is a vaguely futuristic city scape.

#FinishedReading my first of a subscription to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine. With its wonky printing (page margins randomly shifting, print changing darkness across each page) it feels a bit like samizdat; I don't mind that, but surely they could have done […]

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Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, March/April 2025 edition, featuring stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Nancy Kress

Super excited to have received my first ever edition delivered of #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine! A featured story by Nancy Kress, who I've recently been getting into, seems like a good omen. #SF #SciFi