Asimov’s, September 2007

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"What Wolves Know" by Kit Reed
"By Fools Like Me" by Nancy Kress
"The Caldera of Good Fortune" by Robert Reed
"Draw" by Pati Nagle
"The Good Ship Lollypop" by R. Garcia y Robertson
"How Music Begins" by James Van Pelt
"My Heart is as Dry as Dust" by Kim Zimring
"The Prophet of Flores" by Ted Kosmatka
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Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007

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“Wrong Number” by Alexander Jablokov
“Envoy Extraordinary” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee” by Heather Lindsley
“Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers” by John Langan
“Requirements for the Mythology Merit Badge” by Kevin Haw
“If We Can Save Just One Child…” by Robert Reed

“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang

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Remembering Robert Anson Heinlein

ImageThis July marks the hundredth anniversary of Robert Anson Heinlein’s birth, an event commemorated by The Heinlein Centennial, Inc., an independent group of Heinlein admirers, at the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial in Kansas City, Missouri. If all goes according to plan, a separate group, The Heinlein Society, plans to publish The Heinlein Centennial Reader later this year. (The winners of The Heinlein Centennial’s story contest may be found at their website. The Heinlein Society has announced their short story contest, and they promise details will be available soon.)
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“All You Zombies–” by Robert Heinlein, March 1959 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

ImageThis month marks the centennial of science fiction grand master Robert A. Heinlein‘s birth, and it would seem inappropriate not to somehow acknowledge that here in Tangent‘s “classics” corner.  Given that the event currently being commemorated is a birth, a Heinlein story about a birth seems right, and the obvious pick there is his short story “All You Zombies—,” which first appeared in the March 1959 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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The Best of Jim Baen’s Universe, 2006, edited by Eric Flint

Science Fiction Stories:
“Dog Soldier” by Garth Nix
Image“The Girl with the Killer Eyes” by B. B. Kristopher
“Bow Shock” by Gregory Benford
“Decaf and Spaceship, To Go” by Katherine Sanger
“All the Things You Are” by Mike Resnick
“A Time to Kill” by S. Andrew Swann
“Local Boy Makes Good” by Ray Tabler
“The Old Woman in the Young Woman” by Gene Wolfe
“Candy-Blossom” by Dave Freer
“What Would Sam Spade Do?” by Jo Walton
“Giving it Fourteen Percent” by A. S. Fox
“Every Hole is Outlined” by John Barnes
“Fishing” by Thea Hutcheson
“Bob’s Yeti Problem” by Lawrence Person
“Brieanna’s Constant” by Eric Witchey
“The Darkness” by David Drake

Fantasy Stories:
“The Cold Blacksmith” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Nature of Things” by Maya Kaathryn Bohnoff
“Sisters of Sarronnym; Sisters of Westwind” by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
“The Opposite of Pomegranates” by Marissa Lingen
“As Black as Hell” by John Lambshead
“Benny Comes Home” by Esther Friesner
“Femme Fatale” by Jason Wittman
“A Hire Power” by J. Simon

“Poga” by John Barnes
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Nemonymous 7: Zencore! Scriptus Innominatus, edited by D.F. Lewis

“Torsion” by ?
“MMM – Delicious” by ?
“Undergrowth” by ?
“Fugly” by ?
“The Nightmare Reader” by ?
“The Secret Life of the Panda” by ?
“Upset Stomach” by ?
“The Awful Truth About The Circus” by ?
“Red Velvet Dust” by ?
“The Coughing Coffin” by ?
“Terminus” by ?
“Mary’s Gift, the Stars and Frank’s Pisser” by ?
“Blue Raspberries” by ?
“Berian Winslow & The Stream Of Consciousness Storyteller” by ?
“The Plunge” by ?
“England and Nowhere” by ?
“Word Doctor” by ?

The currently unallocated list of authors of the above stories in alphabetical (not story) order: Anonymous, Daniel Ausema, Charles Black, Dominy Clements, Scott Edelman, Nick Jackson, M.P. Johnson, Kek-W, Tim Nickels, Reggie Oliver, Ursula Pflug, Steven Pirie, Brian Rappatta, Patricia Russo, E. Sedia, S.D. Tullis, & Mark Valentine
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