Contents: • Opinion, by Robert Silverberg • Reviews by Frank Catalano and Robert Coulson • Legend's End, poem by Wendy McElroy • Improbable Bestiary: The Troll, poem by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre • The Observatory, editorial by George H. Scithers • Epitaph, short story by Bill Pronzini • To a Colonist, poem by Hope Athearn • I Lost My Love to the Space Shuttle Columbia, short story by Damien Broderick • Favor, short story by J. Michael Matuszewicz • The Desert of Vast Eternity, poem by Thomas M. Disch • Continued Lunacy, short story by Darrell Schweitzer • In the Islands, short story by Pat Murphy • An Interview of A. Bertram Chandler by Darrell Schweitzer • The Syncopated Man, short story by Sharon Webb • Sand Painting, short story by Allen L. Wold • On the Rebound, short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II • The Amazing Years, essay by Cele Goldsmith • There Is an Index by First Lines, poem by Thomas M. Disch • Against Infinity (Part 1 of 2), serial by Gregory Benford