The FictionMags Index

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Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #6, #16, June 1979] ($1.25, 196pp, digest, cover by Karl Kofoed) 5 · Editorial: Golden Age Ahead · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · The Thaw · Tanith Lee · nv 40 · The Shop on Bedford Street · Martin Gardner · pz 42 · Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour · Michael Bishop · ss 57 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: !!! · Grendel Briarton · vi 59 · Hitch on the Bull Run [Terra Tarkington] · Sharon Webb · ss 69 · On Science Fiction Detective Stories · Jon L. Breen · ar 80 · Illusions · Paul David Novitski & Tony Sarowitz · nv 112 · A Midsummer Newt’s Dream · Stanley Schmidt · vi 116 · Scoop · Michael A. McCollum · nv 140 · A Thirst for Broken Water [Gleia] · Jo Clayton · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #7, #17, July 1979] ($1.25, 196pp, digest, cover by Karl Kofoed) 6 · Editorial: Poetry, Fun, & Games · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · Priest of the Baraboo [Momus] · Barry B. Longyear · nv 60 · Tanya Tackles Topology · Martin Gardner · pz 62 · On Evenings Beyond the Fields We Know · John M. Ford · ar 81 · Rainbow Bridges · Peter Payack · pm 82 · ...And Settle Down with a Good Book [Cheryl Harbottle] · Dian Girard · ss 89 · The Initiation · Mark Ringdalh · vi 92 · Well, It Wasn’t Forbidden Planet, But... · Dan J. Hicks · pm 93 · On Cosmology · Tony Rothman & L. C. Shepley · ar 112 · The Quintessence of Galahad Sypher · Joseph Kosiewska · ss 124 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: !V · Grendel Briarton · vi 125 · The Merchant of Stratford · Frank Ramirez · ss 134 · The Spectacles of Jorge Luis Borges · Arthur Jean Cox · ss 148 · On the Shadow of a Phosphor Sheen · William F. Wu · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #8, #18, August 1979] ($1.25, 196pp, digest, cover by Alex Schomburg) 5 · Editorial: Learning Device · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · Dreams · Barry B. Longyear · nv 43 · The Explosion of Blabbage’s Oracle · Martin Gardner · pz 44 · Alex Schomburg · Shawna McCarthy · bg 49 · C.O.D. · Jonathan Milos · ss 56 · Stone Crucible · John M. Ford · nv 78 · On What Really Goes On at a Science Fiction Convention · Darrell Schweitzer · ar 82 · Itch on the Bull Run [Terra Tarkington] · Sharon Webb · ss 93 · The Migration of Darkness · Peter Payack · pm 94 · Where Are You, Stephanie Tobin? · Juleen Brantingham · ss 103 · Doo-Dah Chemistry · William Tuning · vi 104 · The Cool War [H. Hornswell Hake] · Frederik Pohl · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #9, #19, September 1979] ($1.25, 196pp, digest, cover by Vincent Di Fate) 6 · Editorial: The Vocabulary of SF · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · Still in the Galaxy · Jeanne Hopkins · pm 24 · The Backward Look [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss 42 · Dracula Makes a Martini · Martin Gardner · pz 44 · Jenning’s Operative Webster · J. E. Walters · ss 62 · On the Fundamental Mystery of Physics · Milton A. Rothman · ar 91 · SHAWNA, Ltd. · Frederick Longbeard · ss 100 · Solo · Steve Perry & Jesse Peel · ss 115 · The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer · John M. Ford · ss 120 · Enemy Mine · Barry B. Longyear · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #10, #20, October 1979] ($1.25, 196pp, digest, cover by George Barr) 6 · Editorial: The Scientist as Villain · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · Mandalay [Alternities, Inc.] · John M. Ford · nv 47 · On Oulipo Algorithms, Anagrams, and Other Nonsense · Martin Gardner · pz 49 · On Commissioned Imaginations · Sandra Miesel · ar 74 · A Day in Mallworld [Mallworld] · Somtow Sucharitkul · nv 96 · The Mover · Peter Payack · pm 99 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: !!!!! · Grendel Briarton · vi 100 · Iron Man, Plastic Ships · L. E. Modesitt, Jr. · nv 126 · Rebuttal³ to $tar War$ · Stephanie K. Lang · pm 127 · Degraded! · Jean S. Moore · ss 134 · Blasterfight at the P.U. Corral · Barry B. Longyear · pm 134 · Where a Star Is a Ship or When Is a Micron a Parsec? or When Is TV Going to Start Hiring Science Fiction Writers? · Tol E. Rant · pm 136 · Homecoming · Barry B. Longyear · nv 179 · How True · Henry Clark · pm

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #11, #21, November 1979] ($1.25, 196pp, digest, cover by Vincent Di Fate) 6 · Editorial: The Dean of Science Fiction · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · The Eternal Genesis · Milton A. Rothman · nv 45 · Haiku for the L5 · Robert Frazier · pm 46 · The Erasing of Philbert the Fudger · Martin Gardner · pz 48 · Twist Ending · Barry B. Longyear · ss 53 · The Raindrop’s Rôle · Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. · nv 71 · Tanka for the SUNSAT project · Robert Frazier · pm 72 · In Spring a Livelier Iris · Ruth Berman · ss 88 · From the Lunatech Admissions Committee · Sharon N. Farber · vi 92 · Furlough · Skip Wall · ss 105 · Flamegame · Steve Perry · ss 120 · The Fare · Sherri Roth · ss 131 · Autumn Sunshine for Moe Joost · John Morressy · vi 133 · The Sapphire As Big As the Marsport Hilton · John M. Ford · ss 137 · Sharing Time in the Gallery · Sharon Webb · ss 146 · On the Midwatch · Keith Minnion · ss 155 · This Could Not Be the Alien · Charles West, Jr. · pm 156 · Mountain Wings · Sydney J. Van Scyoc · ss 172 · Gift of a Useless Man · Alan Dean Foster · ss

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v3 #12, #22, December 1979] ($1.25, 180pp, digest, cover by Alex Schomburg) 6 · Editorial: Rejection Slips · Isaac Asimov · ed 20 · Written in Sand · Robert Chilson · ss 36 · How Crock and Watkins Cracked a Code · Martin Gardner · pz 37 · On How Science Happens: The Voyager I Discoveries · Susan J. Kovach · ar 56 · The Web Dancer [Inquestor] · Somtow Sucharitkul · nv 83 · Horse Laugh · Pierce Askegren · vi 84 · On Science Fiction Clubs · Darrell Schweitzer · ar 93 · The Cow in the Cellar · William J. Earls · ss 99 · Hear the Crash, Hear the Roar · Jack C. Haldeman, II · ss 108 · The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus [Professor Anderson] · Gene Wolfe · ss 119 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: V! · Grendel Briarton · vi 120 · Like Unto the Locust [Part 1 of 2; H. Hornswell Hake] · Frederik Pohl · n.

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #1, #23, January 1980] ($1.25, 180pp, digest, cover by Stephen E. Fabian) 6 · Editorial: Anniversaries · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · Darktouch [Inquestor] · Somtow Sucharitkul · nv 42 · Lies, All Lies · Christine Watson · vi 44 · Titan’s Titanic Symbol · Martin Gardner · pz 46 · Switch on the Bull Run [Terra Tarkington] · Sharon Webb · ss 60 · Project Fear [Red Myklynn] · Barry B. Longyear · nv 90 · Rest in Pieces · W. T. Quick · ss 97 · The Curse · Fan D. Ango · pm 98 · For Cheddar or Worse · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · vi 100 · A Matter of Etiquette · Jerry Craven · ss 108 · The Rime of the Ancient Engineer · Arlan Keith Andrews, Sr. · pm 110 · Like Unto the Locust [Part 2 of 2; H. Hornswell Hake] · Frederik Pohl · n. 169 · Index, 1977-1979 · Anon. · ix

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #2, #24, February 1980] ($1.25, 180pp, digest, cover by Alex Schomburg) 6 · Editorial: One More Time · Isaac Asimov · ed 10 · In Memoriam: Margaret Winter Campbell · George O. Smith · ob 20 · The God and His Man · Gene Wolfe · ss 26 · Professor Cracker’s Antitelephone · Martin Gardner · pz 28 · Mascot · T. W. O’Brien · ss 34 · Caduceus · C. R. Faddis · nv 70 · Of Days Gone By [Cheryl Harbottle] · Dian Girard · ss 78 · Millennial · Ted Reynolds · nv 99 · Title Find · Susan Casper · pz 100 · Afternoon for Phantoms · S. Dale · pm 102 · My Sister’s Eyes · Juleen Brantingham · ss 112 · On the Tinsel Screen: Science Fiction & the Movies · James Gunn · ar 128 · A Little Incorrectness · Richard D. Orr · ss 138 · Variation on a Theme from Beethoven · Sharon Webb · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #3, #25, March 1980] ($1.25, 180pp, digest, cover by Jack Gaughan) 6 · Editorial: The Sun and Moon · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · Darkmorning [Brackrath] · Sydney J. Van Scyoc · nv 37 · The World’s First SF Acrostic Limerick... So Far · Mike Buckley & Darcy Giene · pm 38 · Vacation on the Moon · Martin Gardner · pz 40 · Heritage · Joanne Mitchell · ss 45 · Hark, Hark, the Quark! · Grant Carrington · pm 46 · Martian Walkabout · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · ss 60 · Storyteller · Ardis Waters · ss 68 · Psycho-Stars · Rory Harper · ss 78 · Cosmic Cowboys · Peter Payack · pm 80 · One Kidnapped Clicka · John Kelly · ss 91 · Missing the Points · Chuck McMichael · vi 92 · The Book of Baraboo [Momus] · Barry B. Longyear · na 166 · Probe in Outerspace, Nearly Extrasolar, Elicits Response · John M. Ford · pm

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #4, #26, April 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by Alex Schomburg) 6 · Editorial: The Solar System · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · The Storm King · Joan D. Vinge · nv 48 · Lucifer at Las Vegas · Martin Gardner · pz 49 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: V!! · Grendel Briarton · vi 50 · Travels · Carter Scholz · ss 62 · Love Song for the Eighties · Sally Palmer · pm 64 · On the Foundations of Science Fiction · James Gunn · ar 85 · The Eumenides in Koine · Sheridan A. Simon · ss 94 · Relatively Speaking · Lee Weinstein & Darrell Schweitzer · vi 96 · Grimes and the Great Race [John Grimes] · A. Bertram Chandler · nv 122 · Southwind My Mother [Gleia] · Jo Clayton · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #5, #27, May 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by George Barr) 6 · Editorial: The Letter Column · Isaac Asimov · ed 11 · On Books: The Best of 1979 · Charles N. Brown · rc 20 · Wolkenheim Fairday · Richard Sean McEnroe · nv 42 · Weird Numbers from Titan · Martin Gardner · pz 44 · The Hot and Cold Running Waterfall · Stephen Tall · nv 65 · Glitterbug · Argus · pm 66 · A Sailor’s Delight · Ralph Roberts · vi 70 · The Sampler · David J. Hand · ss 77 · Ann Atomic’s Space Cases [Ann Atomic] · Sharon N. Farber · ss 82 · For the Birds · Isaac Asimov · ss 91 · On Faster-Than-Light Paradoxes · Milton A. Rothman · ar 110 · If You Can Fill the Unforgiving Minute · David Andreissen & D. C. Poyer · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #6, #28, June 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by Roger Stine) 6 · Editorial: Welcome, Sibling! · Isaac Asimov · ed 20 · Rabid in Mallworld [Mallworld] · Somtow Sucharitkul · nv 45 · Off We’re Going to Shuttle · Martin Gardner · pz 46 · Alternate Genesis · Peter Allen David · vi 49 · Under the Rainbow: Science Fiction in Hollywood · Craig Miller · cl 58 · Cold Hands · Jeff Duntemann · nv 78 · The Day of the Trifles · Jon L. Breen · ss 85 · Broken Toys · Gordon Dykstra · ss 99 · Land of the Great Horse Laughs · Larry Tritten · ss 104 · Alien Lover · Ted Reynolds & William F. Wu · ss 114 · Dust · Peter Payack · pm 115 · Last Quarter · Cam Thornley · pm 116 · Skinner · Richard Sean McEnroe · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #7, #29, July 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by Karl Kofoed) 6 · Editorial: Serials · Isaac Asimov · ed 23 · Karl Kofoed · Shawna McCarthy · bg 28 · Sing a Song of Mallworld [Mallworld] · Somtow Sucharitkul · nv 54 · The Backward Banana · Martin Gardner · pz 56 · On Variations on a Robot · James Gunn · ar; from forthcoming book The Foundations of SF (Oxford, 1982). 82 · Out of Service [Alternities, Inc.] · John M. Ford · ss 92 · Transference · Sharon Webb · ss 101 · The Man in the Rover · Coleman Brax · ss 109 · That Settles That · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · pm 110 · Good Fences · Juleen Brantingham · ss 121 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: V!!! · Grendel Briarton · vi 122 · The Mirror of Ko Hung · E. Hoffmann Price · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #8, #30, August 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by Stephen Fabian) 6 · Editorial: Double Dactyls Revisited · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · Stonefoal [Brackrath] · Sydney J. Van Scyoc · ss 35 · Et Tu · John Stallings · pm 36 · The Queer Story of Gardner’s Magazine · Martin Gardner · pz 38 · The Worth of a Man · Tim Colley · vi 40 · Trans Dimensional Imports · Sharon N. Farber · ss 53 · Endurance Vile · Steven Barnes · ss 63 · On Star Trek as Liturgy · Andrew M. Greeley · ar 69 · Haiku for the Space Shuttle · Robert Frazier · pm 70 · It’s Okay to Like the Star Trek Movie · Bill Warren · ar 84 · Light on the Sound [Inquestor] · Somtow Sucharitkul · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #9, #31, September 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by Alex Schomburg) 6 · Editorial: Family Matters · Isaac Asimov · ed 18 · A Tale of Two Cities · Jack C. Haldeman, II · ss 27 · Einstein’s Distress · Poul Anderson · pm 27 · Penzias’s Phone · Carl Holzman · pm 28 · No Vacancy at Aleph-Null Inn · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · On Playing Rôles: A Second Look · John M. Ford · ar 42 · Niche on the Bull Run [Terra Tarkington] · Sharon Webb · ss 53 · A Spaceship Built of Stone · Lisa Tuttle · ss 70 · Hot Pursuit · John M. Ford · ss 86 · When the Chessmen Walked · Tim Colley · vi 88 · A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts [Pshrinks Anonymous] · J. O. Jeppson · ss 96 · Guardian · Jeff Duntemann · ss 111 · Mechanical Hearts · Vic Compton · pm 112 · Rare Bird · Sharon Webb · vi 114 · On Designing an Interstellar Spaceship · Milton A. Rothman · ar 146 · Dear Caressa or This Towering Torment · Somtow Sucharitkul · ss

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v4 #10, #32, October 1980] ($1.50, 180pp, digest, cover by Alex Schomburg) 6 · Editorial: The Mosaic and the Plate Glass · Isaac Asimov · ed 20 · The Wheels of Dream · John M. Ford · nv 53 · Robots of Oz · Martin Gardner · pz 55 · Outsider · Skip Wall · ss 66 · Smile... · Tim Colley · vi 68 · Touch of the Bear · Pat Murphy · ss 81 · Heinlein’s Stories · Poul Anderson · pm 81 · Clausius’ Chaos · Poul Anderson · pm 83 · The Axioms of Science Fiction · Jon Inouye · ms 84 · Peregrine: Perplexed [Peregrine] · Avram Davidson · na