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Destinies, Spring 1980

James Patrick Baen

First published 1980
Publisher Ace Books
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Vincent Di Fate
Pages 320
Price $2.25
ISBN 0441143067


• Volume 2, No. 2 • Editor credited as "James Baen" on the cover, but "James Patrick Baen" on the interior title page. • Interior illustrations by Janet Aulisio, Alicia Austin, Tom Broz, David Egge, Steve Fabian, and Broeck Steadman. Artists are credited on the copyright page. No individual art is explicitly credited. Credits here established by signature and/or style. • Sandra E. Koester is listed as Sandra Koester in the table of contents. • The page number for "The City and the Critics" is incorrectly listed as 253 in the table of contents. • The front cover is reproduced on the back cover without text. See here

Year Reviewer Publication
1980 David A. Truesdale Science Fiction Review, Winter 1980

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 And the First Shall Be Last ... Baen Essay
7 Why Must They All Have My Face? Dean Ing Novelette
32 The Proper Study of Mankind J. E. Pournelle, Ph.D. Essay
49 Editor's Note: The Pournelle Axes James P. Baen Essay
53 The Taming of the Bear: The Coming Decline of Soviet Power Norman Spinrad Essay
76 Bellerophon Kevin Christensen Novella
137 Getting About in Space Charles Sheffield Essay
181 Four in One Joe Haldeman Short Story
184 Sweetie Frederik Pohl Essay
198 Books: A Binocular View (Destinies, Spring 1980) Norman Spinrad Essay
199 Lord Valentine's Castle Norman Spinrad & Robert Silverberg Review
203 On Wings of Song Norman Spinrad & Thomas M. Disch Review
205 Mayflies Norman Spinrad & Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Review
209 Books: A Binocular View (Destinies, Spring 1980) Orson Scott Card Essay
210 The Shadow of the Torturer Orson Scott Card & Gene Wolfe Review
212 Roadmarks Orson Scott Card & Roger Zelazny Review
213 Watchtower Orson Scott Card & Elizabeth A. Lynn Review
214 Jailbird Orson Scott Card & Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Review
214 Schrodinger's Cat Orson Scott Card & Robert Anton Wilson Review
214 The Dancers of Arun Orson Scott Card & Elizabeth A. Lynn Review
215 An Infinite Summer Orson Scott Card & Christopher Priest Review
215 Magic Time Orson Scott Card & Kit Reed Review
216 The World of Science Fiction: The History of a Subculture Orson Scott Card & Lester del Rey Review
217 The White Hart Orson Scott Card & Nancy Springer Review
218 The Book of the Dun Cow Orson Scott Card & Walter Wangerin, Jr. Review
218 The Well of the Unicorn Orson Scott Card & Fletcher Pratt Review
219 Master Snickup's Cloak Orson Scott Card & Alexander Theroux & Brian Froud Review
219 The Borribles Orson Scott Card & Michael de Larrabeiti Review
220 A Tolkien Bestiary Orson Scott Card & David Day Review
221 Locksley Hall, 2050 AD: Prologue to "The Space Enterprise" G. Harry Stine Essay
238 The City and the Critics James Gunn Essay
254 Science with Dick and Jane, Lesson One: Electricity Sandra E. Koester Short Story
264 The L-5 Review (#4) The Editors of L-5 News Essay
285 Voices from the Dust Joan Vinge Short Story
317 Introduction to Expanded Universe Robert A. Heinlein Essay