Contents: Frontispiece, interior artwork by Stephen Gilden Editorial, essay by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker The Cliff Climbers, shortstory by R. A. Lafferty The Sound of Muzak, novelette by Gardner Dozois A Trip to the Head, shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory, shortstory by Thomas M. Disch Inalienable Rite, shortstory by Gregory Benford Orion, shortstory by George Stanley The View from This Window, novelette by Joanna Russ Gone Are the Lupo, shortstory by H. B. Hickey Fire Storm, shortstory by Christopher Priest Getting to Know You, poem by Link Dogman of Islington, shortstory by Hilary Bailey Shades, shortstory by Sandy Boucher Twelve Ancillary Approximations for the Quark/ Cover Called Appomattox, (1970), interior artwork by Russell FitzGerald Carthing, shortstory by A. E. van Vogt Daughter of Roses, poem by Helen Adam Adrift on the Freeway, shortstory by Edward Bryant My Father's Guest, shortstory by Joan Bernott Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction, essay by Samuel R. Delany Ramona, Come Softly, novelette by Gordon Eklund Six Drawings, interior artwork by Stephen Gilden