Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 January sold out - for now!

January - #87 (v9 #1)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Sword and Sorcery 6

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 28

Tom Rainbow - Viewpoint: Superintelligence! 30

Tony Rothman - For Tom Rainbow 47

Martin Gardner - Satan and the Apple 52

Lucius Shepard - The End of Life As We Know It 54

Frederik Pohl - Fermi and Frost 80

Connie Willis - And Who Would Pity a Swan? 95

Garry Kilworth - The Final Assassin 106

Michael Bishop - To a Chimp Held Captive for Purposes of Research 117

Barry N. Malzberg - Quartermain 120

Richard L. Purtill - Gorgonissa 129

Thomas Wylde - The Spinning Kingdom 143

James Sallis - Need 153

Gregory Frost - In Media Vita 156

Baird Searles - On Books 180

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 188
Index: 1984 189

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 February sold out - for now!

February - #88 (v9 #2)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Slush 6

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 10

Hope Athearn - About an Old Closet 21

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 22

Martin Gardner - How’s-That-Again Flanagan 26

Lucius Shepard - Viewpoint: How I Spent My Summer Vacation: A Student Perspective on Clarion 30

Ben Bova - Primary 44

Lisa Goldstein - Tourists 54

Marta Randall - Undeniably Cute: A Cautionary Tale 71

Steven Popkes - Deathwitch 76

Kim Antieau - Hauntings 89

Scott Russell Sanders - Ascension 100

Jane Yolen - Into the Wood 110

Michael Swanwick - The Transmigration of Philip K. 112

Robert Silverberg - Sailing to Byzantium 128

Baird Searles - On Books 184

Robert Frazier - Doppler Effects 192

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 March  How To Order

March - #89 (v9 #3)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Magic 4

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 11

David R. Bunch - And Thank You, Tommy Edison 19

Martin Gardner - Relativistically Speaking 20

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 22

Wolfgang Jeschke - The Land of Osiris 26

Thomas Wylde - Marooned on Planet Earth 96

Karen Joy Fowler - Praxis 110

Pete Hamill - From The Lake 120

Phylis Eisenstein - Sense of Duty 124

Garry Kilworth - The Lost Garden of Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter, Lucy Atwell and the Rest of the Lads of the 32nd Parachute Regiment 136
Connie Willis - The Curse of Kings 142
Norman Spinrad - On Books: Transatlantic Science Fiction 183
Baird Searles - On Books 183

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 April How To Order

April - #90 (v9 #4)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Dialog 4

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 17

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 18

Martin Gardner - Bar Bets on the Bagel 22

Tom Rainbow - Viewpoint: Love-Potions 24

Gregory Benford - Time's Rub 46

Steve Rasnic Tem - The Dreaming Machine Dreams of the Future 61

Andrew Weiner - Klein's Machine 62

Akua Lezli Hope - We Are the New Heat 77

George Alec Effinger - The Beast from One Quarter Fathom 78

Alexander Jablokov - Beneath the Shadow of her Smile 96

Lee Killough - Deathglass 113

Alex M. Jeffers - Brake 125

Lucius Shepard - How The Wind Spoke At Madaket 126
Baird Searles - On Books 182

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 May How To Order

May - #91 (v9 #5)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Moonshine 4

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 17

Martin Gardner - Catch the BEM 18

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 20

Isaac Asimov - Viewpoint: The Little Tin God of Characterization 24

Bruce Sterling - Dinner in Audoghast 38

Andrew Joron - Shipwrecked on Destiny Five 54

Scott Russell Sanders - The Tree of Dreams 56

Lewis Shiner - The War At Home 74

Keith Minnion - Empire State 78
Pat Cadigan - After The days of the Dead-Eye 'Dee 100
Lisa Goldstein - Preliminary Notes on the Jang 112
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Dreaming Machine Acquires Legs 125
Michael Swanwick - Anyone here From Utah? 126
Bruce Boston - The Berserker Enters a Plea on the Death of Greater Los Angeles 131
Marta Randall - Sea Changes 132
Susan Palwick - The Woman Who saved The World 142
Robert Frazier - Ed White, Spacewalking, June 3, 1965 157
Pat Murphy - On A Hot Summer Night In a Place Far Away 158

John Kessel - A Clean Escape 170

Baird Searles - On Books 183

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 June How To Order

June - #92 (v9 #6)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Symbolism 4

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 17

Karin C. Warren - Wavering 19

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 22

Martin Gardner - Animal TTT 24

Charles Sheffield - Tunicate, Tunicate, Wilt Thou Be Mine? 26

Susan Palwick - “The universe is far dustier than expected” 61

Norman Spinrad - Alternate Viewpoint 62

Jennifer Swift - Marie 70

Damon Knight - A Fantasy 88
Richard Grant - Pages from Cold Harbor 90

Garry Kilworth - The Thunder of the Captains 112

Stephen Gallagher - The Price 130

James Patrick Kelly - Solstice 148
E. M. Schorb - Spring and the Black Holes 182

Baird Searles - On Books 183

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 July How To Order

July - #93 (v9 #7)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Superstupidity 4

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 16

Tom Rainbow - Viewpoint: The Science-Fiction of Sex Change 18

Martin Gardner - Playing Safe on the Bagel 38

Lucius Shepard - The Fundamental Things 40

Ian McDonald - Scenes from a Shadowplay 66

James Sallis - Impossible Things Before Breakfast 81

Gerge Alec Effinger - Unferno 84

John Shirley - The Incorporated 109

Roger Zelazny - 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai 124
M. L. Nelson - Eurydice Back in Hades 179
Norman Spinrad - On Books: Inside, Outside 180

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 August How To Order

August - #94 (v9 #8)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Plagiarism 4

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 18

Martin Gardner - Inner Planets Quiz 20

Kate Wilhelm - The Gorgon Field 22

Isaac Asimov - Logic is Logic 74

Robert Frazier - Paleontologists Who Live in Backward Time 83

Wayne Wightman - In the Realm of the Heart, in the World of the Knife 84

T. Coraghessan Boyle - On For The Long Haul 98

Norman Spinrad - World War Last 116

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 181
Bradley Denton - Mountain Shadow: Shawnee County, Kansas 182

Baird Searles - On Books 183

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 September  sold out - for now!

September - #95 (v9 #9)

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Star Wars! 4

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 17

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 20

Poul Anderson - Viewpoint: Star Peace? 22

Martin Gardner - Sex Among the Polyomans 36

Michael Bishop - A Gift from the GrayLanders 38

Susan Palwick - “The early universe is much simpler than the weather” 59

Gary Alexander - Buddies 60

Bruce Boston - The Evolution of the Death Murals 72

Richard Mueller - The Day We Really Lost the War 74

Stephen Leigh - Shaping Memory 88

Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars 112

Baird Searles - On Books 183
Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192

 


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 October sold out - for now!

October - #96 (v9 #10)

John Kessel - A Clean Escape

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Fairy Tales 4

Martin Gardner - Puzzles in Flatland 20

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 24

Tom Rainbow - Viewpoint: The Mad Scientist’s Primer 26

Frederik Pohl - The Things That Happen 48

Avon Swofford - Taking the Low Road 74

Suzette Haden Elgin - Lexical Gap 103

Gardner R. Dozois & Michael Swanwick - Snow Job 104

John M. Ford - Scrabble with God 121

David R. Bunch - One Wish!? 123

Karen Joy Fowler - The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things 124

Bruce Sterling - Green Days in Brunei 136

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 182

Baird Searles - On Books 183

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 November How To Order

November - #97 (v9 #11)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Editors 4

Martin Gardner - Dirac’s Scissors 20

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 24

J. V. Brummes - Deus ex Machina 26

Andrew Joron & Robert Frazier - The Wake of Gravity 75

Isaac Asimov - He Travels the Fastest 76

Jane Yolen - An Infectation of Angels 85
Terence M. Green - Ashland, Kentucky
George R. R. Martin - Portraits of his Children (novelette)
Terence M. Green - Ashland, Kentucky 94

Ron Wolfe - The One-Shoe Blues 116
Tanith Lee - Blood-Mantle 124
Lillian Stewart Carl - Where Is Thy Victory? 136

George R. R. Martin - Portraits of His Children 144

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 179

Norman Spinrad - On Books Into Movies 180

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192


 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 December How To Order

December - #98 (v9 #12)

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Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Civil War 3

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 20

Martin Gardner - Bull’s Eyes and Pratfalls 24

Marvin Minsky - Viewpoint: Toward Artificial Intelligence 28

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 53

Ian McDonald - Empire Dreams 54

Robert Frazier - Perception Barriers 79

Karen Joy Fowler - The War of the Roses 80

Robert F Young - O Little Town of Bethlehem II 106

Gene Wolfe - The Nebraskan and the Nereid 132

Suzette Haden Elgin - Presuppositional Ghostbusting 140

Robert Charles Wilson - Boulevard Life 142

Sydney J Van Scyoc - The Meadows of Light 158

Baird Searles - On Books 183

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192



 

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1985 Mid-December sold out - for now!

Mid-December - #99 (v9 #13)

Shawna McCarthy - Up Front 4

Isaac Asimov - Editorial: Irritations 5

Dana Lombardy - Gaming 24

Martin Gardner - Flarp Flips Another Fiver 28

James Tiptree, Jr. - All This and Heaven Too 30

Robert Frazier - Variations on an Alien Vista 65

Bill Bickel - Aftermath 66

Susan Palwick - Ways to Get Home 80

J. J. Hunt - Stopping at an Undeveloped Planet en Route to Another Galaxy 91

James P. Blaylock - Lord Kelvin's Machine 92

Gerry Mooney - Mooney’s Module 125

Ian Watson - The Wire Around the War 126

Susan Casper & Gardner R. Dozois - Send No Money 134

Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling - Storming the Cosmos 144

Baird Searles - On Books 183

Erwin S. Strauss - SF Conventional Calendar 192