Novella
"The Philosopher's Stone" by Brian Stableford
Novelettes
"Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" by Gord Sellar
"Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" by Michael Bishop
Short Stories
"The Woman Under the World" by Steven Utley
"Cascading Violet Hair" by R. Neube
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson
Poetry
"Light Across an Impossible Lake" by Mark Rich
Departments
"Editorial: Two Robots and an Alien Walk Into a Bar..." by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Rereading Stapledon II" by Robert Silverberg
"In Memoriam: Janet Kagan, 1946-2008" by Sheila Williams
"Letters"
"Thought Experiments: When the Whole World Looked Up" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"On Books" by Paul Di Filippo
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2008, Vol. 32, No. 7
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Tor Lundvall
Novella
"The Philosopher's Stone" by Brian Stableford
Novelettes
"Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" by Gord Sellar
"Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" by Michael Bishop
Short Stories
"The Woman Under the World" by Steven Utley
"Cascading Violet Hair" by R. Neube
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson
Poetry
"Light Across an Impossible Lake" by Mark Rich
Departments
"Editorial: Two Robots and an Alien Walk Into a Bar..." by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Rereading Stapledon II" by Robert Silverberg
"In Memoriam: Janet Kagan, 1946-2008" by Sheila Williams
"Letters"
"Thought Experiments: When the Whole World Looked Up" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"On Books" by Paul Di Filippo
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2008, Vol. 32, No. 7
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Tor Lundvall