Asimov's, May/June 2026 Sophie Simpson is a sharp, plain, perpetually skint girl from a single-parent household who wears her cousin Mary’s ill-fitting hand-me-downs and eats cheese and pickle sandwiches every…
Introduction Cecelia Holland, whose career spans more than six decades of historical and speculative fiction—her debut novel The Firedrake appeared in 1966—brings to "Hot" (published in Asimov's Science Fiction, May/June…
Asimov's, May/June 2026 “Hot” is a climate collapse novella set in the near-future California coast, following Francie Beuerlein, a teenage girl navigating civilizational breakdown during a catastrophic, lethal heat wave.…