Novelettes
"A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime" by Benjamin Crowell
"Some Like It Hot" by Brian Stableford
Short Stories
"A Lovely Little Christmas Fire" by Jeff Carlson
"As Women Fight" by Sara Genge
"Animus Rights" by John Shirley
"Angie's Errand" by Nick Wolven
"Leaving the Station" by Jim Aikin
"The Bride of Frankenstein" by Mike Resnick
Poetry
"The Anti-World" by Andrew Gudgel
"The World's Ending Again in 2012" by Darrell Schweitzer
"Shiner" by G. O. Clark
Departments
"Editorial: All Around the Town" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Building Worlds: Part III" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books" by Peter Heck
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009, Vol. 33, No. 12
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Duncan Long
Novelettes
"A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime" by Benjamin Crowell
"Some Like It Hot" by Brian Stableford
Short Stories
"A Lovely Little Christmas Fire" by Jeff Carlson
"As Women Fight" by Sara Genge
"Animus Rights" by John Shirley
"Angie's Errand" by Nick Wolven
"Leaving the Station" by Jim Aikin
"The Bride of Frankenstein" by Mike Resnick
Poetry
"The Anti-World" by Andrew Gudgel
"The World's Ending Again in 2012" by Darrell Schweitzer
"Shiner" by G. O. Clark
Departments
"Editorial: All Around the Town" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: Building Worlds: Part III" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books" by Peter Heck
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009, Vol. 33, No. 12
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Duncan Long