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Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction In motorsport, Kalle Rovanperä (pictured)
magazine edited by Sheila Williams (pictured) since 2004. It and Jonne Halttunen win the World Rally
was launched in 1976 under the title Isaac Asimov's Science Championship.
Fiction Magazine, and was quickly successful, reaching a A coal mine fire in Karaganda Region,
circulation of over 100,000 within a year. George H. Scithers, Kazakhstan, kills 46 people.
the first editor, published many new writers who went on to Hurricane Otis makes landfall near
be successful in the genre. Shawna McCarthy became the Acapulco, Mexico, leaving at least 48
editor in 1983, and expanded the range of stories Asimov's people dead. Kalle Rovanperä
Sheila Williams, the was willing to publish. Stories involving sex or violence In the United States, 18 people are killed
current editor scandalized some readers, but Isaac Asimov, the editorial in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
director, defended McCarthy's choices in an editorial.
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McCarthy transformed the magazine into a leading market for science fiction
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writers, and more award-winning stories appeared, including fiction by Robert
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Silverberg and John Varley. Gardner Dozois took over as editor in 1985 and
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