Asimov's Science Fiction 1997-07

Mother Africa
The author began “writing stories in the fourth grade, some time around the Mesozoic Era, and k...
Scarey Rose in Deep History
Rebecca Ore has published seven novels since 1988. The latest, Gaia’s Toys, has just come out i...
Payback
Sonia Orin Lyris takes on our vast, and sometimes incomprehensible, universe in a compact tale...
Itsy Bitsy Spider
With his June 1995 novelette, “Think Like a Dinosaur,” James Patrick Kelly has entered the rank...
The Flag on Gorbachev Crater
Charles L. Harness was born in West Texas in 1915. He has a BS in chemistry, and an LLB, and he...
Front Man
Although “Front Man” marks Greg Abraham’s first solo appearance in these pages, it is his secon...