The included fiction is:
Tornado Warning • poem by Danny Adams
Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous • novelette by Dale Bailey
Star Soup • short story by Chris Willrich
Sub-Genre • poem by W. Gregory Stewart
The Last Islander • short story by Matthew Johnson
Noumenon • The Great Ship Universe • novelette by Robert Reed
Adware • short story by Suzanne Palmer
Unearthed • novella by William Preston

After giving up on the August issue I was very pleased at how much I enjoyed the September 2012 issue of Asimov's. This issue has the sort of stories that I enjoy in the magazine, six of them, quite varied, and a couple poems. I think I can say that even though one story was rather underwhelming, I liked every one of them which marks this as a better than average issue for me. Robert Reed's story of a future explorer was quite enjoyable to me. Robert Silverberg also had a nice nostalgic essay on how his imagination was captured with the early anthologies of science fiction and has continued. Several of his favorites were mine as well.

None of the stories in this issue won awards or even came close, but they were well written fiction. More like this I say. ( )