Novella
"Where There Is Nothing, There Is God" by David Erik Nelson
Novelettes
"They Have All One Breath" by Karl Bunker
"Empty Shoes by the Lake" by Gay Partington Terry
"HigherWorks" by Gregory Norman Bossert
Short Stories
"How the Damned Live On" by James Sallis
"The Cold Side of the Island" by Kali Wallace
Poetry
"Million-Year Elegies: Archaeopteryx" by Ada Hoffmann
"Relativistic Dickinson" by John Richard Trtek
Departments
"Guest Editorial: That's Far Out, So You Read It Too?" by Sarah Pinsker
"Reflections: Dead as a Dodo" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books" by Peter Heck
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2016, Vol. 40, No. 12
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by NASA
Novella
"Where There Is Nothing, There Is God" by David Erik Nelson
Novelettes
"They Have All One Breath" by Karl Bunker
"Empty Shoes by the Lake" by Gay Partington Terry
"HigherWorks" by Gregory Norman Bossert
Short Stories
"How the Damned Live On" by James Sallis
"The Cold Side of the Island" by Kali Wallace
Poetry
"Million-Year Elegies: Archaeopteryx" by Ada Hoffmann
"Relativistic Dickinson" by John Richard Trtek
Departments
"Guest Editorial: That's Far Out, So You Read It Too?" by Sarah Pinsker
"Reflections: Dead as a Dodo" by Robert Silverberg
"On Books" by Peter Heck
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2016, Vol. 40, No. 12
Sheila Williams, editor
Cover art by NASA