Garcia y Robertson"Books of the Risen Sea" by Suzanne PalmerShort Stories"Riding the Blue Line with Jack Kerouac" by Sandra McDonald"Disturbance in the Produce Aisle" by Kit Reed"Dead Men in Central City" by Carrie Vaughn"Arriving at Terminal: Xi's Story" by James Gunn"The Ganymede Gambit: Jan's Story" by James Gunn"Zigeuner" by Harry Turtledove"The Fourth Hill" by Dennis E. Staples"The Cabinet" by William Preston"An Incident in the Literary Life of Nathan Arkwright" by Allen M. Steele"Squamous and Eldritch Get a Yard Sale Bargain" by Tim McDaniel"First Contact" by Stuart GreenhousePoetry"Jump-Point Failure" by John Richard Trtek"Poaching Country" by Bethany Powell"Your Clone Finds Her Stray" by Robert Frazier"Locked in Amber" by Jane Yolen"X Marks the Spot" by Robert Borski"Sleeping Beauty Attains Bliss" by Leslie J. AndersonDepartments"Editorial: Thirty-First Annual Readers' Awards' Results" by Sheila Williams"Reflections: The Last Hittite" by Robert Silverberg"On the Net: Remembering Bertie!" by James Patrick Kelly"On Books: Outside America" by Norman Spinrad"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. StraussAsimov's Science Fiction, September/October 2017, Vol. 41, Nos. 9-10 (Whole Nos. 500-501)Sheila Williams, editorCover art by Cynthia Sheppard

    Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Rachel Swirsky and P. H. Lee, Marie Brennan, A.C. Wise, and Maurice Broaddus. Reprinted fiction by Tim Pratt, essays by Aidan Moher, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Karlyn Ruth Meyer, Marissa Lingen, and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, poetry by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Alexandra Seidel, Cynthia So, and Betsy Aoki, interviews with Greg Van Eekhout and Maurice Broaddus by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker“Big Box” by Greg van Eekhout“Compassionate Simulation” by Rachel Swirsky and P. H. Lee“On the Impurity of Dragon-kind” by Marie Brennan“How the Trick Is Done” by A.C. Wise“The Migration Suite: A Study in C Sharp Minor” by Maurice Broaddus“A Champion of Nigh-Space” by Tim Pratt“Was Trials of Mana Worth Growing Up For?” by Aidan Moher“The Gang’s All Here: Writing Lessons from The Good Place” by Tansy Rayner Roberts“The Better Place” by Karlyn Ruth Meyer“Beware the Lifeboat” by Marissa Lingen“Sir Elsa of Tortall, Knight of the Realm” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry“capturing the mood” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires“Sing” by Alexandra Seidel“If Love Is Real, So Are Fairies” by Cynthia So“Buruburu” by Betsy Aoki

    Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate—a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray’s stunning collection of stories: Museum of the Weird.Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amidst the humor. Characters find their footing in these bizarre scenarios and manage to fall into redemption and rebirth. Museum of the Weirdinvites you into its hallways, then beguiles, bewitches, and reveals a writer who has discovered a manner of storytelling all her own.