Novelettes
"The Observation Post" by Allen M. Steele
"Shadow Angel" by Erick Melton
"Burning Bibles" by Alan Wall
Short Stories
"D.O.C.S." by Neal Barrett, Jr.
"Danilo" by Carol Emshwiller
"The Odor of Sanctity" by Ian Creasey
"Grandma Said" by R. Neube
"Stalker" by Robert Reed
Poetry
"Harold Gets Off on the Doppler Effect" by James Kamlet
"Elven Alvin" by P M F Johnson
"Stone Roach" by Fiona Moore
"The Music of Robots" by Bruce Boston
Departments
"Editorial: Twenty-Fifth Annual Readers' Awards' Results" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: The Reign of the Retired Emperor" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books" by Paul Di Filippo
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2011, Vol. 35, No. 9
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Maurizio Manzieri
Novelettes
"The Observation Post" by Allen M. Steele
"Shadow Angel" by Erick Melton
"Burning Bibles" by Alan Wall
Short Stories
"D.O.C.S." by Neal Barrett, Jr.
"Danilo" by Carol Emshwiller
"The Odor of Sanctity" by Ian Creasey
"Grandma Said" by R. Neube
"Stalker" by Robert Reed
Poetry
"Harold Gets Off on the Doppler Effect" by James Kamlet
"Elven Alvin" by P M F Johnson
"Stone Roach" by Fiona Moore
"The Music of Robots" by Bruce Boston
Departments
"Editorial: Twenty-Fifth Annual Readers' Awards' Results" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: The Reign of the Retired Emperor" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books" by Paul Di Filippo
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2011, Vol. 35, No. 9
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Maurizio Manzieri