Table of Contents January 2026

A new crop of stories to start off the new year with!

It's a new year, and that means that we have 12 months of stories to look forward to in 2026. I don't have many resolutions, other than to read 52 books in 2026, but I am hoping to carve out more time to read more short stories. I used to read a lot more, and I've just fallen out of that habit. This column has helped me start that again, and I'll encourage you to do the same, and let me know in the comments what you've enjoyed reading.

You can check out last month's installment here – it's been newly updated with the stories that came out over the course of December, and you can check out prior installments of this column here.

Okay, here are the short stories coming out this month:

Analog Science Fact and Fiction (January/February 2026 Vol. XCVI No. 1 & 2)

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Fiction

"Sin Eaters" by Mark W. Tiedemann
"The Origami Man" by Doug Franklin
"Monkey Trap" by Geoffrey Hart
"Salary Man" by Matt Mchugh
"You Who Sought The Stars’ Distant Light" by Stewart C. Baker
"Artificial Cupidity" by Hayden Trenholm
"Still Cold, Still Losing Air" by Sean Monaghan
"A Goodbye At The End Of The Universe" by Ian Baaske
"Silver Hands" by E.l. Mellor
"Unsung" by Derrick Boden
"A Future Full Of Glaciers" by Peter Medeiros
"Flag Lamp" by Jonathan Olfert
"Recognition, Memory" by Benjamin C. Kinney
"Jack Cade’s Rebellion" by Philip Brian Hall
"A Chatbot’s Guide To Self-respect" by Jo Miles
"Like Father, Like Son" by Theodora Sutcliffe
"And She Is Content" by Frank Ward
"Linka’s Out" by Rich Larson
"Iron Star Swing" by Kate Orman
"Jiggity Jog" by Don Mark Baldridge

Poetry

"Escape Pod" by S.l. Johnson
The Bones They Left" by Shanley Poole

Nonfiction

Editorial: The State Of The Union by Trevor Quachri
Nor Any Drop To Drink by Kevin Walsh
The War, Astounding, And Campbell by Edward M. Wysocki
Me-n-you-genics by Howard V. Hendrix
In Times To Come
The Alternate View by John G. Cramer
In Memorian: J.t. Sharrah by Emily Hockaday
In Memorian: Bruce Boston by Emily Hockaday
Unknowns: Time Lapse by Todd Mcclary, Edited By Alec Nevala-lee
The Reference Library by Sean Cw Korsgaard
Brass Tacks

Asimov's Science Fiction (January/February 2026 Vol. 50 Nos. 1 & 2)

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Fiction

"The Lady in Camo" by John Richard Trtek
"Ecobomb" by Alexander Jablokov
"Stay" by William Preston
"The Tourist" by R.T. Ester
"As Long as We’re Still Here, We Might as Well Dance" by Adam-Troy Castro
"The Greenway" by Susan Palwick
"The Man with the Ruined Hand" by Sean Monaghan
Replacement Theory" by Jack Skillingstead
The Imaginative Youngster’s Handbook to UFOs" by Will Ludwigsen
All My Birds" by K.A. Teryna (translated by Alex Shvartsman)
The Moribund" by Lavie Tidhar
And We Shall Find Rest" by James Sallis

Poetry

"Monster" by Megan Branning
"The Freetown Bar and Bookstore" by M.C. Childs
"Thirty-Six Views of the Milky Way" by Connor Yeck
"Closing Time" by Brian U. Garrison
"Humans Make Anything Their Pets" by Dawn Vogel

Nonfiction

Editorial: WorldCon Extravaganza by Sheila Williams
Reflections: The Multiplicity of Mermaids by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: Welcome to Just Okay by James Patrick Kelly
Thought Experiment: Bradbury and Truffaut’s Empathy in Fahrenheit 451 by Kelly Lagor
Asimov’s Readers’ Award Ballot
On Books by Kelly Jennings