Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 January sold out - for now!

January #11 (v3 #1)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: The Hugo 6

Barry B. Longyear - The Second Law 24

Martin Gardner - Exploring Carter’s Crater 55

Ginger Kaderabek - Vincent Di Fate 57

James Gunn - On the Road to Science Fiction: From Wells to Heinlein 64

Melisa Michaels - In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See 82

Jon L. Breen - The Last Gothic 100

Jeanne Dillard - The Castaways 109

Ron Goulart - Garbage 112

Ted Reynolds - Ker-Plop 128

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 February  sold out - for now!
February #12 (v3 #2)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Quite Personal 6

Karl M. Olsen - On Records 12

F. Paul Wilson - To Fill the Sea and Air 22

Martin Gardner - Captain Tittlebaum’s Test 40

Larry Niven - In the Cellar 43

Erwin S. Strauss - The SF Conventional Calendar 46

Mary W. Stanton - Ad Astra, Al 47

Mark J. McGarry - Back to Byzantium 48

Leah Palmer - Up-Top Summer 66

George O. Smith - On Kepler, Newton, & Company 73

Steven M. Tymon - On the Benefits of Programming 99

Barry B. Longyear - Proud Rider 102

Noah Ward - Fit the Crime 128

Isaac Asimov - Nothing for Nothing 136

Frederick Longbeard - Zugg’s Fall 147

Keith Davis - Outside 148

Shaw Vinist - Rebuttal to Rebuttal to $tar War$ 149

Jo Clayton - A Bait of Dreams 150

Letters 182

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 March sold out - for now!
March #13 (v3 #3)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Hints 6

Frederick Longbeard - A Time for Terror 22

Martin Gardner - Pink, Blue, and Green 47

Barry B. Longyear - Dueling Clowns 49

Francis E. Izzo - Tank 55

Alan J. Warren - Mass Me Another Question 61

Lee Chisholm - Someone Else’s House 62

Al Sarrantonio - Ahead of the Joneses 80

Larry Eisenberg - Djinn & Duckworth 83

Henry L. Lazarus & Darrell Schweitzer - The Secret 95

David J. Hand - Simulacrum 96

James Gunn - On the Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here 100

Frederik Pohl - Mars Masked 122

Brad Calhoon - Swift Completion 181

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 April sold out - for now!
April #14 (v3 #4)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: The Articles of SF 6

D. C. Poyer - Heat Wave 20

Martin Gardner - The Three Robots of Professor Tinker 40

Peter Payack - The Origins of the Material World 41

Ginger Kaderabek - Jack Gaughan 43

John M. Ford - Double in Brass 52

Robert Karl Bohm - Twisting the Unicorn’s Tale 78

Eric Loranger - This Isn’t the Way We Did It in Rehearsal 84

Margaret St. Clair - Places to Crawl Through 86

Isaac Asimov - Point of View 94

Lowell A. Bangerter - The Fall of the Eisenstein 98

John M. Ford - On Tabletop Universes 100

Randall Garrett - The Napoli Express 112

Peter Payack - Wide Open Spaces 179

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 May sold out - for now!

May #15 (v3 #5)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Hollywood & I 6

Baird Searles - On Books (Reviews) 13

Erwin S. Strauss - The SF Conventional Calendar 19

Nancy Kress - Against a Crooked Stile 20

Martin Gardner - How Bagson Bagged a Board Game 42

Gary Hood - Through These Portals Dead 44

A. Grimm Richardson - Rainy Monsoon 46

John M. Ford - L’Envoi 47

Steve Perry - Small Talent 49

Jayge Carr - Sanctuary 64

K. J. Snow - Slush 75

Milton Rothman - Prime Crime 82

Anne Lear - Mermaid’s Knell 106

George Alec Effinger - The Pinch-Hitters 133

Anjala E. A. Ehelebe - There Are No Wars Words in the Language 143

Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. - The Dead of Winter 144

Julie Flores - Computer Song 153

Barry B. Longyear - The Quest 154

Letters 184



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 June sold out - for now!
June #16 (v3 #6)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Golden Age Ahead 5

Tanith Lee - The Thaw 18

Martin Gardner - The Shop on Bedford Street 40

Michael Bishop - Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour 42

Grendel Briarton - Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: !!! 57

Sharon Webb - Hitch on the Bull Run 59

Jon L. Breen - On Science Fiction Detective Stories 69

Paul David Novitski & Tony Sarowitz - Illusions 80

Stanley Schmidt - A Midsummer Newt’s Dream 112

Michael A. McCollum - Scoop 116
Jo Clayton - A Thirst for Broken Water 140

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 July sold out - for now!
July #17 (v3 #7)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Poetry, Fun, & Games 6

Barry B. Longyear - Priest of the Baraboo 22

Martin Gardner - Tanya Tackles Topology 60

John M. Ford - On Evenings Beyond the Fields We Know 62

Peter Payack - Rainbow Bridges 81

Dian Girard - ... And Settle Down with a Good Book 82

Mark Ringdalh - The Initiation 89

Dan J. Hicks - Well, It Wasn’t Forbidden Planet, But ... 92

Tony Rothman & L. C. Shepley - On Cosmology 93

Joseph Kosiewska - The Quintessence of Galahad Sypher 112

Grendel Briarton - Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: !V 124

Frank Ramirez - The Merchant of Stratford 125

Arthur Jean Cox - The Spectacles of Jorge Luis Borges 134

William F. Wu - On the Shadow of a Phosphor Sheen 148

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 August sold out - for now!
August #18 (v3 #8)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Learning Device 5

Barry B. Longyear - Dreams 22

Martin Gardner - The Explosion of Blabbage’s Oracle 43

Shawna McCarthy - Alex Schomburg 44

Jonathan Milos - C.O.D. 49

John M. Ford - Stone Crucible 56

Darrell Schweitzer - On What Really Goes On at a Science Fiction Convention 78

Sharon Webb - Itch on the Bull Run 82

Peter Payack - The Migration of Darkness 93

Juleen Brantingham - Where Are You, Stephanie Tobin? 94

William Tuning - Doo-Dah Chemistry 103

Frederik Pohl - The Cool War 104

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 Septembersold out - for now!

September #19 (v3 #9)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: The Vocabulary of SF 6

Jeanne Hopkins - Still in the Galaxy 22

Isaac Asimov - The Backward Look 24

Martin Gardner - Dracula Makes a Martini 42

J. E. Walters - Jenning’s Operative Webster 44

Milton A. Rothman - On the Fundamental Mystery of Physics 62

Frederick Longbeard - SHAWNA, Ltd. 91

Steve Perry & Jesse Peel - Solo 100

John M. Ford - The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer 115

Barry B. Longyear - Enemy Mine 120

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 October sold out - for now!
October #20 (v3 #10)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: The Scientist as Villain 6

John M. Ford - Mandalay 18

Martin Gardner - On Oulipo Algorithms, Anagrams, and Other Nonsense 47

Sandra Miesel - On Commissioned Imaginations 49

Somtow Sucharitkul - A Day in Mallworld 74

Peter Payack - The Mover 96

Grendel Briarton - Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: !!!!! 99

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Iron Man, Plastic Ships 99

Stephanie K. Lang - Rebuttal³ to $tar War$ 126

Jean S. Moore - Degraded! 127

Barry B. Longyear - Blasterfight at the P.U. Corral 134

Tol E. Rant - Where a Star Is a Ship or When Is a Micron a Parsec? or When Is TV Going to Start Hiring Science Fiction Writers? 134

Barry B. Longyear - Homecoming 136

Henry Clark - How True 179

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 Novembersold out - for now!
November #21 (v3 #11)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: The Dean of Science Fiction 6

Milton A. Rothman - The Eternal Genesis 22

Robert Frazier - Haiku for the L5 45

Martin Gardner - The Erasing of Philbert the Fudger 46

Barry B. Longyear - Twist Ending 48

Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. - The Raindrop’s Rôle 53

Robert Frazier - Tanka for the SUNSAT project 71

Ruth Berman - In Spring a Livelier Iris 72

Sharon N. Farber - From the Lunatech Admissions Committee 88

Skip Wall - Furlough 92

Steve Perry - Flamegame 105

Sherri Roth - The Fare 120

John Morressy - Autumn Sunshine for Moe Joost 131

John M. Ford - The Sapphire As Big As the Marsport Hilton 133

Sharon Webb - Sharing Time in the Gallery 137

Keith Minnion - On the Midwatch 146

Charles West, Jr. - This Could Not Be the Alien 155

Sydney J. Van Scyoc - Mountain Wings 156

Alan Dean Foster - Gift of a Useless Man 172

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1979 December sold out - for now!
December #22 (v3 #12)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Rejection Slips 6

Robert Chilson - Written in Sand 20

Martin Gardner - How Crock and Watkins Cracked a Code 36

Susan J. Kovach - On How Science Happens: The Voyager I Discoveries 37

Somtow Sucharitkul - The Web Dancer 56

Pierce Askegren - Horse Laugh 83

Darrell Schweitzer - On Science Fiction Clubs 84

William J. Earls - The Cow in the Cellar 93

Jack C. Haldeman, II - Hear the Crash, Hear the Roar 99

Gene Wolfe - The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus 108

Grendel Briarton - Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: V! 119

Frederik Pohl - Like Unto the Locust (Part 1 of 2) 120