CONTENTS Novella "The Application of Hope" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Novelettes "Stone to Stone, Blood to Blood" by Gwendolyn Clare "Arlington" by Jack Skillingstead "Lost Wax" by Gregory Norman Bossert Short Story "The Ex-Corporal" by Leah Thomas Poetry "Turing Tests" by Peter Chiykowski "Telling the True" by Jane Yolen Departments "Editorial: The 2013 Dell Magazines Award" by Sheila Williams "Reflections: Rereading Simak" by Robert Silverberg "On the Net: What Counts?" by James Patrick Kelly "On Books" by Paul Di Filippo "SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2013, Vol. 37, No. 8 (Whole No. 451) Sheila Williams, editor Cover art by Les Edwards