TOC: Asimov’s December 2009

Asimov’s has posted the table of contents (with samples) for the December 2009 issue:

Novelettes

• “A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime” by Benjamin Crowell
• “Some Like It Hot” by Brian Stableford

Short Stories

• “A Lovely Little Christmas Fire” by Jeff Carlson
• “As Women Fight” by Sara Genge
• “Animus Rights” by John Shirley
• “Angie’s Errand” by Nick Wolven
• “Leaving the Station” by Jim Aikin
• “The Bride of Frankenstein” by Mike Resnick

Poetry

• “The Anti-World” by Andrew Gudgel
• “The World’s Ending Again in 2012” by Darrell Schweitzer
• “Shiner” by G.O. Clark

Departments

• Editorial: All Around the Town by Sheila Williams
• Reflections: Building Worlds: Part III by Robert Silverberg
• On the Net: Dude, Where’s My Hovercar? by James Patrick Kelly
• Almost Possible by Mary Robinette Kowal
• On Books by Peter Heck
• The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss