[Daniel Blackland 01] • The Osteomancer's Son

**CONTENTS**

**Novellas**

"Inclination" by William Shunn

"The Walls of the Universe" by Paul Melko

**Novelettes**

"Except the Music" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

"Home Movies" by Mary Rosenblum

**Short Stories**

"Heisenberg Elementary" by Wil McCarthy

"The Final Flight of the Blue Bee" by James Maxey

"Datacide" by Steve Bein

"Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth" by Robert Silverberg

"The Age of Ice" by Liz Williams

"The Osteomancer's Son" by Greg van Eekhout

"Not Worth a Cent" by R. Neube

"The King's Tail" by Constance Cooper

**Poetry**

"Choose" by W. Gregory Stewart

"The Sonnet from Hell" by Sue Burke

"The Tree of Life Drops Propagules" by Greg Beatty

"Brick, Concrete, and Steel People" by Bruce Boston

"Burying Maud" by William John Watkins

**Departments**

"Editorial: Coming of Age" by Sheila Williams

"Reflections: Tracking Down the Ancestors" by Robert Silverberg

"Letters"

"Thought Experiments: A Possible Planet: SF & Electronic Music" by Brian Bieniowski

"On Books: Aussies, Brits, and Yanks" by Norman Spinrad

"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss

*Asimov's Science Fiction* , April 2006, Vol. 30, Nos. 4-5 (Whole Nos. 363-364)

Sheila Williams, editor

Cover art by Bob Eggleton