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• 11 • Editorial: Escape to Reality? • (1980) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 14 • In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See • (1979) • short story by Melisa Michaels
• 27 • Keepersmith • (1979) • novelette by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron
• 51 • Good Taste • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 65 • To Sin Against Systems • (1977) • novelette by Garry R. Osgood
• 90 • Louisville Slugger • (1977) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 93 • A Delicate Shade of Kipney • (1978) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 102 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley [as by Herb Boehm]
• 112 • A Many Splendored Thing • (1977) • short story by Linda Isaacs
• 117 • Boarder Incident • (1977) • short story by Ted Reynolds
• 121 • Low Grade Ore • (1977) • novelette by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
• 136 • The Missing Item • [Black Widowers] • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 148 • Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead • (1978) • short story by Steve Perry [as by Jesse Peel]
• 154 • Polly Plus • (1978) • short story by Randall Garrett
• 165 • A Time for Terror • (1979) • novelette by Barry B. Longyear [as by Frederick Longbeard]
• 183 • Perchance to Dream • (1977) • short story by Sally A. Sellers
• 199 • The Small Stones of Tu Fu • (1978) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 206 • Born Again • (1978) • short story by Sharon N. Farber
• 219 • Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe • [Eight Worlds] • (1977) • novelette by John Varley
• 242 • How It Happened • (1979) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 243 • Quarantine • (1977) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 244 • Cautionary Tales • (1978) • short story by Larry Niven
• 247 • A Bait of Dreams • (1979) • novelette by Jo Clayton
• 270 • Against a Crooked Stile • (1979) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 285 • Joelle • (1977) • novella by Poul Anderson
• 313 • Dance Band on the Titanic • (1978) • novelette by Jack L. Chalker [as by Jack Chalker]
• 330 • Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind • (1978) • short story by E. Amalia Andujar
• 335 • Lorelei at Storyville West • (1977) • short story by Sherwood Springer
• 344 • On the Way • (1978) • short story by Conway Conley
• 350 • The Napoli Express • [Lord Darcy] • (1979) • novella by Randall Garrett
• 402 • Darkside • (1978) • novelette by Gary D. McClellan
• 422 • No Room in the Stable • (1971) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 426 • African Blues • (1978) • short story by Paula Smith
• 435 • Coming of Age in Henson's Tube • (1977) • short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
• 439 • Home Team Advantage • (1977) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 443 • Star Train • (1978) • short story by Drew Mendelson
• 449 • Bystander • (1978) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 456 • Time and Hagakure • (1977) • short story by Steven Utley
• 462 • Ghosts • (1979) • short story by Keith Minnion
• 476 • A Simple Outside Job • (1977) • short story by Robert Lee Hawkins
• 479 • The Last Defender of Camelot • (1979) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 496 • Lost and Found • (1978) • short story by Michael A. Banks and George Wagner
• 499 • Hellhole • (1979) • short story by David Gerrold
• 512 • The Man Who Took the Fifth • (1978) • short story by Michael Schimmel
• 518 • The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie • (1978) • short story by Anne Lear
• 525 • Backspace • (1977) • short story by F. M. Busby
• 529 • On the Q167 File • (1978) • short story by John M. Ford
• 532 • Horseless Carriage • (1978) • short story by Michael A. Banks
• 537 • Pièce de Résistance • (1978) • short story by J. F. Bone [as by Jesse Bone]
• 543 • Lipidleggin' • [LaNague Federation] • (1978) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 550 • Omit Flowers • (1977) • short story by Dean McLaughlin
• 551 • Message to Myself • (1978) • short story by Diana L. Paxson
• 554 • One Rejection Too Many • (1978) • short story by Patricia Nurse
• 557 • But Do They Ride Dolphins? • (1978) • short story by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.
• 566 • When There's No Man Around • (1977) • short story by Stephen Goldin
• 572 • Longshot • (1979) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 579 • Nothing for Nothing • (1979) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 587 • To Fill the Sea and Air • [LaNague Federation] • (1979) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 600 • Guilt • (1978) • novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 615 • Proud Rider • [Circus World] • (1979) • novelette by Barry B. Longyear