The FictionMags Index

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Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v6 #12, #59, December 1982] ($1.95, 196pp, digest) 7 · Editorial: Susan Calvin · Isaac Asimov · ed 26 · Thirty Days Hath September · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · Viewpoint: The Story Behind the “Foundation” · Isaac Asimov · ar 43 · Foundation’s Edge [Foundation] · Isaac Asimov · ex Doubleday 1982 50 · Commentary · Arthur C. Clarke · ms 50 · Commentary · Alvin Toffler · ms 53 · Commentary · Harlan Ellison · ms 58 · Commentary · Harry Harrison · ms 58 · Commentary · Clifford D. Simak · ms 62 · Commentary · L. Sprague de Camp · ms 66 · Commentary · Larry Niven · ms 66 · Commentary · Gregory Benford · ms 72 · Commentary · Stanley Schmidt · ms 75 · Commentary · Poul Anderson · ms 75 · Commentary · Martin Gardner · ms 78 · Commentary · Spider Robinson · ms 78 · Commentary · Frederik Pohl · ms 80 · Commentary · Algis Budrys · ms 83 · Commentary · A. E. van Vogt · ms 86 · Commentary · Jack Williamson · ms 88 · The Sorceress in Spite of Herself · Pat Cadigan · ss 100 · Measuremen · Jayge Carr · ss 120 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #4 Hidden Words · Merl H. Reagle · pz 122 · The Institute for Scientific Non-Rational Thought · Peter Payack · vi 126 · Cutting Down · Bob Shaw · ss 145 · Ancient Document · Hope Athearn · pm 146 · Destroyer City · Dennis Takesako · nv 168 · Our Revels Now Are Ended · James Corrick · ss

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v6 #13, #60, Mid-December 1982] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Wayne D. Barlowe) 5 · Editorial: Violence and Incompetence · Isaac Asimov · ed 16 · Piggy’s Glasses and the Moon · Martin Gardner · pz 18 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #5 Men of Letters · Merl H. Reagle · pz 20 · Profile: Jerry Pournelle [Jerry E. Pournelle] · Charles Platt · bg 39 · The Protector · Art Vesity · ss 47 · Syrup · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm 48 · Stomping Down Stroka Prospekt · Richard A. Lupoff · nv 72 · The Mysterious Cure [Pshrinks Anonymous] · J. O. Jeppson · ss 87 · Loren Eiseley’s Time Passages · Robert Frazier · pm 88 · Quill Tripstickler Hits Bottim [Quill Tripstickler] · John Shirley · ss 106 · Heart in Winter · Rand B. Lee · ss 120 · The Ballad of Jake the Snake and the Rock and Roll Kid · J. P. Killus · ss 128 · A Long Way Home · Sheila Finch-Rayner · ss 142 · Darkwar · Glen Cook · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #1, #61, January 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Mark Caparosa) 7 · Editorial: Women and Science Fiction · Isaac Asimov · ed 13 · Missing the Boat: Report One · Isaac Asimov · ms 28 · Monorails on Mars · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #6 By Jove! · Merl H. Reagle · pz 32 · Viewpoint: Greater Realities or How to Write Science Fiction Without Knowing Much About Science · Terry Carr · ar 44 · A Romance of the Equator · Brian Aldiss · ss Birmingham SF Group 1980 52 · Shaggy Purple · James P. Killus · ss 62 · Pilgrimage · Skip Wall · ss 78 · Things That Go Quack in the Night · Lewis & Edith Shiner · ss 92 · Concerto in B Demolished · Al Sirois · ss 107 · The Seventeen-Year Locusts · Charles Sheffield · vi 109 · Dwarfs to Giants: Ikeya & Seki · Robert Frazier · pm 110 · Fusing and Refusing [from The Crucible of Time] · John Brunner · ex Del Rey 1983 168 · Index to 1982 · Anon. · ix

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #2, #62, February 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Don Brautigam) 6 · Editorial: More Asimov? · Isaac Asimov · ed 13 · Anteaus · Roger Dutcher · pm 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #7 White Holes · Merl H. Reagle · pz 26 · The Demon and the Pentagram · Martin Gardner · pz 32 · Potential · Isaac Asimov · ss 42 · Glimpses · Robert F. Young · ss 53 · Get Lost, Lowlife! · Don Anderson · pm 54 · Oft in Offwana · Al Sirois & Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. · ss 64 · Improbable Bestiary: The Invisible Man · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · pm 66 · Sweet Song of Death · Stephen Kimmel · ss 76 · The Crystal Sunlight, The Bright Air [Orthe] · Mary Gentle · nv 86 · Eat Motel · Steven Bryan Bieler · ss 93 · Casting Glances · Peter Payack · pm 94 · The Gray Maelstrom · Daniel Keys Moran · vi 98 · Power Times One · J. Michael Matuszewicz · ss 105 · Perfection · Henry Leon Lazarus · vi 107 · Farewell and Then Forever · Anne Devereaux Jordan · pm 108 · Hardfought · Greg Bear · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #3, #63, March 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Richard Courtney) 6 · Editorial: The All-Human Galaxy · Isaac Asimov · ed 12 · Star-Light · Catherine Mintz · pm 23 · Flarp Flips a Fiver · Martin Gardner · pz 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #8 Changing Character · Merl H. Reagle · pz 26 · Johannes Kepler and His Cosmic Mystery · Robert Frazier · pm 30 · Profile: Joanna Russ · Charles Platt · bg 46 · The Forever Summer · Ronald Anthony Cross · nv 72 · Darts · Steve Perry · ss 88 · The Horn of Elfland [Pshrinks Anonymous] · J. O. Jeppson · ss 102 · Seeing Beneath · M. G. Jacobs · pm 104 · The Falling · Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski · ss 114 · Write When You Get Work · Esther M. Friesner · ss 119 · More on Books · Henry Clark · ss 124 · Dramocles · Robert Sheckley · ex Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1983 172 · In Back · Shawna McCarthy · ed

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #4, #64, April 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Marc Yankus) 6 · Editorial: Nostalgia · Isaac Asimov · ed 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #9 Miscellanea · Merl H. Reagle · pz 26 · Profile: James Tiptree, Jr. · Charles Platt · bg 50 · Bouncing Superballs · Martin Gardner · pz 51 · Plague · Lewis Shiner · ss 58 · Cryptic · Jack McDevitt · ss 76 · Short Timer · John Morressy · nv 98 · $CALL LINK4(CATHY) · Cherie Wilkerson · ss 114 · Negation Demonstrated/Demonstration Negated · Brad Strickland · ss 121 · Hey Moon · Ron Antonucci · pm 122 · The Blue Background · Brian Aldiss · ss 134 · The Sidon in the Mirror · Connie Willis · nv 165 · Roentgen, How Could You? · Robert Frazier · pm

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #5, #65, May 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Joe Burleson) 6 · Editorial: Best-Seller · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · Run, Robot, Run! · Martin Gardner · pz 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #10 Illustrated Men · Merl H. Reagle · pz 28 · Viewpoint: In the Tradition of: An Immodest Proposal · Pamela Sargent · ar 36 · Tales from the Net: A Family Matter · Rand B. Lee · ss 56 · ...And the Angel with Television Eyes · John Shirley · ss 74 · Belling Martha · Leigh Kennedy · nv 95 · The Ticking Clock · Al Sarrantonio · ss 104 · The Final Voice · Richard Johnson · ss 116 · The Ultimate Biofeedback Device [Pshrinks Anonymous] · J. O. Jeppson · ss 132 · The Eternity Wave · Scott Elliot Marbach · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #6, #66, June 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Joe Burleson) 7 · Editorial: Unreasonable! · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #11 Mad Spoofs · Merl H. Reagle · pz 24 · Thang, Thung, and Metagame · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · Haiku for Halley’s Comet: the Last 7 Decades · Robert Frazier · pm 32 · Viewpoint: The Feasibility of Mind-Transfer · Tom Rainbow · ar 49 · Star Hungry World · Norma Gjuka · pm 50 · The High Test · Frederik Pohl · ss 64 · In the Deserts of the Heart · Stuart H. Stock · ss 84 · Perchance to Dream · Norman Spinrad · ss 92 · Nearly Departed [Deadpan Allie] · Pat Cadigan · ss 108 · In the Shadow of Heaven [Alonzo Nordfeldt] · Joel Rosenberg · ss 122 · The Colonist · Lee Killough · pm 123 · Sunlight · Paul E. Holt · ss 133 · A Caption for ILLIAC IV · Robert Frazier · pm 134 · Fire-Caller · Sydney J. Van Scyoc · nv 166 · Haiku for Halley’s Comet: 1983 · Robert Frazier · pm

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #7, #67, July 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Linda Burr) 6 · Editorial: Our Obsolete World · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · The Number of the Beast · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #12 Jawbreakers · Merl H. Reagle · pz 32 · La Reine Blanche · Tanith Lee · ss 42 · The Space Song of J.A. Prufrock III · Hope Athearn · pm 44 · The Artist of Hunger · Scott Sanders · ss 63 · The Ascent of the North Face · Ursula K. Le Guin · vi 66 · Viewpoint: Great Moments in Pseudoscience · Martin Gardner · ar 78 · Out of the Womb · Kim Antieau · ss 88 · In the Eye of the Beholder · Frank Ward · nv 110 · Space Opera for (Purists) (Modernists) · Neal Starkman · ss 118 · The Sea of Evening · George Zebrowski · ss 125 · Petrified · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 137 · Veronica · Wayne A. Kallunki · pm 138 · The Nanny · Thomas Wylde · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #8, #66, August 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Val Lakey Lindahn & Artifact) 6 · Editorial: Shrugging It Off · Isaac Asimov · ed 24 · The Supremacy of Bacteria · Robert Frazier · pm 25 · The Jock Who Wanted to Be Fifty · Martin Gardner · pz 32 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #13 Marine Motif · Merl H. Reagle · pz 34 · The Peacemaker · Gardner Dozois · ss 52 · The Dragon · David St. Marie · pm 54 · Viewpoint: A Stroll to the Stars · Augustine Funnell · ar 59 · Still Time · James Patrick Kelly · ss 72 · Memory · Michael P. Kube-McDowell · ss 86 · Scenes from the Country of the Blind · John Sladek · ss A Book of Contemporary Nightmares, ed. Giles Gordon, Michael Joseph 1977 103 · Doubles · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm 104 · Susie Q² · Terence M. Green · ss 121 · The Orchard · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 128 · Sleepwalker · Art Vesity · ss 142 · The Catch · Craig W. Anderson · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #9, #69, September 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Marc Yankus) 6 · Editorial: Nowhere! · Isaac Asimov · ed 21 · Fibonacci Bamboo · Martin Gardner · pz 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #14 Lunacy · Merl H. Reagle · pz 26 · Improbable Bestiary: The Time Traveler · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · pm 30 · Saving Humanity [Azazel] · Isaac Asimov · ss 41 · Time’s House · Bruce Boston · pm 42 · Viewpoint: Superpowers! · Tom Rainbow · ar 58 · The Glitch · Britton Bloom · nv 80 · Soulsaver · James Stevens · ss 93 · Showdown on Showdown · Ian Watson · nv 108 · Heavenly Flowers · Pamela Sargent · ss 121 · Stolen Moments · Brad Strickland · ss 130 · Visitors · P. J. MacQuarrie · ss 144 · Night Win · Nancy Kress · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #10, #70, October 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Wayne D. Barlowe) 6 · Editorial: My Projects · Isaac Asimov · ed 20 · Tethered Purple-Pebble Eaters · Martin Gardner · pz 26 · Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine · John Kessel · nv 46 · Greek · Leigh Kennedy · ss 60 · Invaders · Andrew Weiner · ss 76 · Chand Veda · Tanith Lee · ss 88 · A Shadow Under the Sea [Hundred Isles] · Mary R. Gentle · ss 100 · Transit [Radu Dracul] · Vonda N. McIntyre · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #11, #71, November 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Wayne D. Barlowe) 6 · Editorial: Schools and Science Fiction · Isaac Asimov · ed 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #15 Exotic Locales · Merl H. Reagle · pz 26 · The Dybbuk and the Hexagram · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · Shrinker · Pamela Sargent · nv 52 · Viewpoint: In Defense of the Real World · Charles Platt · ar 68 · To Steal an Angel · Tony Richards · nv 90 · Fe2O3 and Me · Don Anderson · pm 91 · Melville on Iapetus · Jack McDevitt · ss 101 · In Memoriam Philip K. Dick 1928-1982 · Peter Viereck · pm 102 · Broken Wings · Gregg Keizer · ss 120 · The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator’s Testimony) · Michael Bishop · na

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #12, #72, December 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Joe Burleson) 6 · Editorial: Autographs · Isaac Asimov · ed 22 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #16 The 28-23-31-65-8-10-36-55-17-5-53-13-71-44-54-20-42-62-43-2-30 · Merl H. Reagle · pz 27 · 1984 · Martin Gardner · pz 30 · Remembering Siri · Dan Simmons · nv 70 · Viewpoint: In Defense of Fantasy · Piers Anthony · ar 89 · Convert · Bernard Blicksilver · pm 90 · Remembrance · Cynthia Morgan · nv 111 · Sara Newcombe-Arbor · Roger L. Dutcher · pm 112 · Son of the Morning [Mordred mac Lot] · Ian McDowell · nv 135 · The Harvest of Wolves · Mary R. Gentle · ss 144 · Time Bride · Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v7 #13, #73, Mid-December 1983] ($1.75, 180pp, digest, cover by Steven Hunt) 6 · Editorial: My Name · Isaac Asimov · ed 10 · Houston Can You Read? · Joe Haldeman · pm 21 · Marie Curie Contemplating the Role of Women Scientists in the Glow of a Beaker · Robert Frazier · pm 22 · The Castrati of Womensa · Martin Gardner · pz 24 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #17 Magical Mystery Tour · Merl H. Reagle · pz 26 · Speech Sounds · Octavia E. Butler · ss 42 · Reasonable Doubt · Fred Singer · nv 68 · The Power of the Press · Richard Kearns · nv 92 · Her Furry Face · Leigh Kennedy · ss 111 · My Crazy Father Who Scares All the Women Away · Jack C. Haldeman, II · ss 121 · Cruising · Ian Watson · ss 128 · Wings · Elissa L. A. Hamilton · pm 130 · Street Meat · Norman Spinrad · nv

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v8 #1, #74, January 1984] ed. Shawna McCarthy (Davis Publications, Inc., $1.75, 178pp, digest) 6 · Up Front · Shawna McCarthy · ed 7 · Editorial: Pseudonyms · Isaac Asimov · ed 14 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc 17 · Mooney’s Module · Gerry Mooney · ct 22 · IAsfm Crossword Puzzle #18 Sight Gag · Merl H. Reagle · pz 24 · Gaming · Dana Lombardy · gr 28 · Riddle of the Sphinxes · Martin Gardner · pz 29 · A Still from the Mead Collection · Robert Frazier · pm 30 · Viewpoint: Behind the Chemical-Closet Door · Meredith B. Olson · ar 35 · Ice Age · Catherine Mintz · pm 36 · Blued Moon · Connie Willis · nv 69 · Don’t Drink the Sky at Myrmidon · Bruce Boston · pm 72 · Bright Burning Tiger · Tanith Lee · ss 90 · The Laughter of Elves · Juleen Brantingham · ss 102 · Mars Needs Beatniks · George Alec Effinger · ss 115 · [cartoon] · John Caldwell · ct 116 · The Catharine Wheel [Desolation Road] · Ian McDonald · nv 138 · Red Shift by Judith Lessing · Paul Witcover · nv 164 · On Books · Baird Searles · rc 171 · Index to 1983 · Anon. · ix 178 · SF Conventional Calendar · Erwin S. Strauss · cl