Novellas
"The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress
"Truth" by Robert Reed
Novelettes
"Defending Elysium" by Brandon Sanderson
"The English Mutiny" by Ian R. MacLeod
Short Stories
"Listening for Submarines" by Peter Higgins
"Prayers for an Egg" by Sara Genge
"Money is No Object" by Leslie What
"Dhuluma No More" by Gord Sellar
"Cat in the Rain" by Jack Skillingstead
Poetry
"The First Dancers" by Michael Meyerhofer
"Return of Zombie Teen Angst" by Mike Allen
"Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff" by Jane Yolen
"A Crisis of Forest" by Sandra Lindow
Departments
"Editorial: The 2008 Dell Magazines Award" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Beaming It Down" by Robert Silverberg
"On the Net: Alternativity" by James Patrick Kelly
"On Books: Post-Genre Speculative Fiction" by Norman Spinrad
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2008, Vol. 32, Nos. 10-11
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
Novellas
"The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress
"Truth" by Robert Reed
Novelettes
"Defending Elysium" by Brandon Sanderson
"The English Mutiny" by Ian R. MacLeod
Short Stories
"Listening for Submarines" by Peter Higgins
"Prayers for an Egg" by Sara Genge
"Money is No Object" by Leslie What
"Dhuluma No More" by Gord Sellar
"Cat in the Rain" by Jack Skillingstead
Poetry
"The First Dancers" by Michael Meyerhofer
"Return of Zombie Teen Angst" by Mike Allen
"Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff" by Jane Yolen
"A Crisis of Forest" by Sandra Lindow
Departments
"Editorial: The 2008 Dell Magazines Award" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Beaming It Down" by Robert Silverberg
"On the Net: Alternativity" by James Patrick Kelly
"On Books: Post-Genre Speculative Fiction" by Norman Spinrad
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2008, Vol. 32, Nos. 10-11
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Virgil Finlay