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ASIMOV'S SF 1995,complete [13 issues]
Condition for most issues is Near-Fine to Fine: subscription copies that look unread. No stamps, marks or writing for any - this is a clean set. All labels removed cleanly - see scans. Over time, the binding glue seems to shrink - producing the typical "wavy" look near the spine. My own copies look the same - this is probably unavoidable. When I get a chance, I will add a spine-scan for the year set at the end.
This is the year Asimov's made the "brilliant" decision to bind a subscription renewal to both December issues. If you remove them (like most people) - you find that there is no printing/paper on the spine underneath (there is just glue.) Most/all copies I see for sale have this problem because everyone removed the renewal form. This set has the complete subscription renewals still attached - you can treat them as you like.
13 issues of Asimov's Science Fiction - the complete year 1995: January through Mid-December. This is Volume 19, numbers 1 to 15 (each double-sized issue is counted as 2 volumes.) The 13-issue year was standardized after 1982 so that December has 2 issues (December & Mid-December) rather than some random month as before. The title simplified to Asimov's Science Fiction as of November 1992.
Gardner Dozois became editor in mid-1985, and appeared on the masthead in 1986. He took over a great magazine and made it even better: Isaac Asimov's has become the best SF magazine with stories by the top authors in the field - dominating the Hugo and Nebula nominations for short fiction. Regular features include a letter column, column/editorial "Reflections" by Robert Silverberg, "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss, and Baird Searles' "On Books" (Norman Spinrad does an occasional column.) Illustrations by Steve Cavallo, Laurie Harden, Peter Peeples, Bob Eggleton, Gary Freeman, Ron Chironna, George Krauter, Dell Harris, Jim Connelly, Kandis Elliot, Alfred Ramage, Mike Aspengren, Alan M. Clark, Marylin Cole, Peter Bartczak, Todd Lockwood, John McGee, Mark Penta, Pat Morrissey, Darryl Elliott.
Asimov's Science Fiction January 1995 (Volume 19, No. 1 – Whole #226)
Cover by Peter Peeples (for "Waging Good")
Novella: "Hypocaust & Bathysphere" by Rebecca Ore Novelettes: "Waging Good" by Robert Reed
"And I Must Baffle at the Hint" by L. Timmel Duchamp
Stories: "Hero" by Stephen Baxter
"The Invisible Woman" by Thomas M. Disch
"Sitcom" by Lewis Shiner
"Long Term Project: Report to the Great Council of Cockroaches (Or, What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs)" by Geoffrey A. Landis.
Asimov's Science Fiction February 1995 (Volume 19, No. 2 – Whole #227)
Cover by George M. Krauter.
Novelettes: "Ellen O'Hara" by Ian R. MacLeod
"Flight" by Mary Rosenblum
"Road Kills" by Kandis Elliot
"Joss" by Maureen F. McHugh
"Research Project" by Tom Purdom
Story: "Walking Out" by Michael Swanwick [Hugo nominee]
Asimov's Science Fiction March 1995 (Volume 19, No. 3 – Whole #228)
Cover by Jim Burns (for "Yaguara.")
Novella: "Yaguara" by Nicola Griffith [reprinted from Little Deaths (1994); Nebula nominee] Novelettes: "The Plot of His Ancestors" by John Brunner ("China" series)
"Dreams from a Severed Heart" by Robert Reed
"Trout Fishing in Leytonston" by David Redd
"Comet Gypsies" by G. David Nordley
Story: "Teaching Machines" by Lawrence Watt-Evans.
Asimov's Science Fiction April 1995 (Volume 19, Nos. 4 & 5 – Whole #229-230)
"Double" issue - 320 pages
Cover by Mark Harrison (for ""A Man of the People")
Novellas: "A Man of the People" by Ursula K. Le Guin (part of Four Ways to Forgiveness; Hugo nominee)
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" by Brian Stableford [Nebula nominee] Novelettes: "When the Old Gods Die" by Mike Resnick ("Kirinyaga" series; Hugo & Nebula nominee)
"George's Shirt" by Avram Davidson
"Farthest Man from Earth" by John C. Wright
"From Whom All Blessings Flow" by Stephen Dedman
"Casting at Pegasus" by Mary Rosenblum
Stories: "The Rainses'" by Nisi Shawl
"Into the Tunnel!" by Brian W. Aldiss
"The Bone-Carver's Tale" by Jeff VanderMeer
"Life on the Moon" by Tony Daniel [Hugo nominee]
"Noses" by Eliot Fintushel.
Poetry by William Jon Watkins, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier.
Asimov's Science Fiction May 1995 (Volume 19, No. 6 – Whole #231)
Cover by Garry Overacre ("Da Vinci Rising")
Novella: "Da Vinci Rising" by Jack Dann [Nebula winner - "best novella"] Novelettes: "Sith Season" by Kandis Elliot
"One Hand Clapping" by Steve Martinez
"Ellie" by Jack McDevitt
Stories: "The Beast With Two Backs" by Eliot Fintushel
"A Place of Honor" by Pat Murphy
"Pay As You Go" by Paul Hellweg.
Asimov's Science Fiction June 1995 (Volume 19, No. 7 – Whole #232)
Cover by Todd Lockwood (for "Think Like a Dinosaur")
Novelettes: "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly [Hugo winner - "best novelette," Nebula nominee]
"Across the Darkness" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"Drifting Off the Coast of New Mexico" by Steven R. Boyett
"Amphibians" by Pamela Sargent
"Thorri the Poet's Saga" by S. N. Dyer & Lucy Kemnitzer
Stories: "On the Last Day, God Created" by Virginia Baker
"The Age of Innocence" by Brian Stableford
"Scorpion's Kiss" by J. Brooke.
Asimov's Science Fiction July 1995 (Volume 19, No. 8 – Whole #233)
Cover by Bob Eggleton.
Novella: "A Woman's Liberation" by Ursula K. Le Guin (part of Four Ways to Forgiveness; Hugo & Nebula nominee) Novelettes: "Starship Day" by Ian R. MacLeod
"The Centaur Garden" by Mary Rosenblum
Stories: "Edwige" by Tanith Lee
"Twenty-Three" by Avram Davidson
"Frames" by Mario Milosevic
"Mr. Pacifaker's House" by Holly Wade Matter.
Asimov's Science Fiction August 1995 (Volume 19, No. 9 – Whole #234)
Cover by Chris Moore (for "Dawn Venus")
Novella: "Fault Lines" by Nancy Kress [Hugo nominee] Novelettes: "Dawn Venus" by G. David Nordley
"The Phantom of Dunwell Cove" by Charles Sheffield ("Erasmus Darwin" series)
Stories: "Take Me To the Pilot" by Paul Di Filippo
"Rocket Ghosts" by Wil McCarthy
"The Death of Beatrix Potter" by Candyce Byrne.
Asimov's Science Fiction September 1995 (Volume 19, No. 10 – Whole #236)
Cover by Bruce Jensen (for "Brother Perfect")
Novella: "Brother Perfect" by Robert Reed ("Sister Alice" series) Novelettes: "Luminous" by Greg Egan [Hugo nominee]
"Green" by Diane Mapes
Stories: "Paradise Lost" by Don Webb
"The War Memorial" by Allen Steele
"Fillet of Man" by Eliot Fintushel.
Asimov's Science Fiction October 1995 (Volume 19, No. 11 – Whole #236)
Cover by Todd Lockwood (for "The Death of Captain Future")
Novella: "The Death of Captain Future" by Allen Steele [Hugo winner - "best novella," Nebula nominee] Novelettes: "Evolution" by Nancy Kress
"Out of Touch" by Brian Stableford
"The Balance in the Storm" by Marina Fitch
Stories: "Dikduk" by Eliot Fintushel
"Alice's Asteroid" by G. David Nordley.
Asimov's Science Fiction November 1995 (Volume 19, Nos. 12 & 13 – Whole #237-238)
"Double" issue - 320 pages
Cover by Bruce Jensen (for "Death in the Promised Land")
Novellas: "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" by David Marusek
"Aeon's Child" by Robert Reed
"Death in the Promised Land" by Pat Cadigan Novelettes: "Ether OR" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"TAP" by Greg Egan [Hugo nominee]
"Romance in Lunar G" by Tom Purdom
"Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove [Hugo, Nebula nominee]
Stories: "No Love in All of Dwingeloo" by Tony Daniel
"The Skin Trade" by Brian Stableford.
Poems by Keith Allen Daniels, William Jon Watkins.
Asimov's Science Fiction December 1995 (Volume 19, No. 14 – Whole #239)
Cover by Kinuko Y. Craft (for "Seven Wonders")
Novellas: "The Doryman" by Mary Rosenblum
"Seven Wonders" by R. Garcia y Robertson (part of Atlantis Found) Novelette: "Fragments of a Painted Eggshell" by Alexander Jablokov
Stories: "How to Feed Your Inner Troll" by Leslie What
"Passage to Galena" by Phillip C. Jennings
"Tongues" by Robert Reed.
Asimov's Science Fiction Mid-December 1995 (Volume 19, No. 15 – Whole #240)
Cover by John Maggard (for "Hot Times in Magma City")
Novella: "Bibi" by Mike Resnick & Susan Shwartz [Hugo & Nebula nominee]
"Hot Times in Magma City" by Robert Silverberg Novelette: "All Under Heaven" by John Brunner ("China" series)
Stories: "Ex Vitro" by Daniel Marcus
"Jigoku no Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)" by John D. McDaid
"Tiger I" by Tanith Lee.
