San Antonio’s man of sf letters, Damien Broderick, keeps trucking with a short story called “Dead Air” in the February 2010 issue of ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, now on sale. Other stories in this issue include the novella “The Ice Line” by Stephen Baxter; novelettes “Stone Wall Truth” by Caroline M. Yoachim; “The Woman Who Waited Forever” by Bruce McAllister; and “The Wind-Blown Man” by Aliette de Bodard; and the short story “The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond” by David Erik Nelson. The issue rounds out with editorials and essays by Sheila Williams, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, and Peter Heck, as well as the 24th Annual Readers’ Award Ballot.
