Novelettes
"Toppers" by Jason Sanford
"Patience Lake" by Matthew Claxton
"President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut" by Sandra McDonald
Short Stories
"Wakers" by Sean Monaghan
"The Mutants Men Don't See" by James Alan Gardner
"KIT: Some Assembly Required" by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
"Kairos" by Sieren Damsgaard Ernst
Poetry
"On the Death of Classical Physics" by Michael Meyerhofer
"Your Clone Excels at You" by Robert Frazier
"SETI" by Andrew Paul Wood
"The Martian Air Merchants" by Ken Poyner
Departments
"Editorial: Discovering Women of Wonder" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: The Software of Magic" by Robert Silverberg
"On the Net: Thinking About Dinosaurs" by James Patrick Kelly
"On Books" by Paul Di Filippo
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2016, Vol. 40, No. 8
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Kinuko Craft
Novelettes
"Toppers" by Jason Sanford
"Patience Lake" by Matthew Claxton
"President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut" by Sandra McDonald
Short Stories
"Wakers" by Sean Monaghan
"The Mutants Men Don't See" by James Alan Gardner
"KIT: Some Assembly Required" by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
"Kairos" by Sieren Damsgaard Ernst
Poetry
"On the Death of Classical Physics" by Michael Meyerhofer
"Your Clone Excels at You" by Robert Frazier
"SETI" by Andrew Paul Wood
"The Martian Air Merchants" by Ken Poyner
Departments
"Editorial: Discovering Women of Wonder" by Sheila Williams
"Reflections: The Software of Magic" by Robert Silverberg
"On the Net: Thinking About Dinosaurs" by James Patrick Kelly
"On Books" by Paul Di Filippo
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2016, Vol. 40, No. 8
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by Kinuko Craft