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Cover of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1979

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1979

October 1979

Editor George H. Scithers
Cover art George Barr
Publisher Davis Publications
Price $1.25
Pages 196
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Vol. 3, No. 10 (Whole No. 20) Cover for "Homecoming", which is incorrectly titled "The Homecoming" on the cover. Freas' illustrations for "On Commissioned Imaginations" consists of 12 pieces
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Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
6 Essay Non Fiction The Scientist As Villain Isaac Asimov
10 Review Non Fiction Macrolife Baird Searles & George Zebrowski
10 Essay Non Fiction On Books (Asimov's, October 1979) Baird Searles
11 Review Non Fiction Electric Forest Baird Searles & Tanith Lee
12 Review Non Fiction Bander Snatch Baird Searles & Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
12 Review Non Fiction The Merman's Children Baird Searles & Poul Anderson
14 Review Non Fiction A Wizard in Bedlam Baird Searles & Christopher Stasheff
14 Review Non Fiction Pretender Baird Searles & Piers Anthony & Frances Hall
15 Review Non Fiction Act of Providence Baird Searles & Joseph Payne Brennan & Donald M. Grant
18 Short Fiction Fiction Mandalay John M. Ford
47 Short Fiction Fiction On Oulipo Algorithms, Anagrams, and Other Nonsense Martin Gardner
49 Essay Non Fiction On Commissioned Imaginations Sandra Miesel
74 Short Fiction Fiction A Day in Mallworld Somtow Sucharitkul
96 Poem Fiction The Mover Peter Payack
99 Short Fiction Fiction Through Time & Space with Ferdinand Feghoot !!!!! Grendel Briarton
100 Short Fiction Fiction Iron Man, Plastic Ships L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
126 Poem Fiction Rebuttal3 to $tar War$ Stephanie K. Lang
127 Short Fiction Fiction Degraded! Jean S. Moore
134 Poem Fiction Blasterfight at the P. U. Corral Barry B. Longyear
134 Poem Fiction Where a Star Is a Ship or When Is a Micron a Parsec? or When Is TV Going to Start Hiring Science Fiction Writers? Tol E. Rant
135 Essay Non Fiction The SF Conventional Calendar (Asimov's, October 1979) Erwin S. Strauss
136 Short Fiction Fiction Homecoming Barry B. Longyear
179 Poem Fiction How True Henry Clark
180 Essay Non Fiction Letters (Asimov's, October 1979) various
184 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Asimov's, October 1979) Barry B. Longyear
187 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Asimov's, October 1979) Keith Minnion

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - 1979 George H. Scithers
Cover Art Non Fiction Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1979 George Barr
6 Interior Art Non Fiction The Scientist As Villain Frank Kelly Freas
18 Interior Art Non Fiction Mandalay Val Lakey
36 Interior Art Non Fiction Mandalay [2] Val Lakey
50 Interior Art Non Fiction On Commissioned Imaginations Frank Kelly Freas
74 Interior Art Non Fiction A Day in Mallworld Karl B. Kofoed
99 Interior Art Non Fiction Through Time & Space with Ferdinand Feghoot!!!!! Tim Kirk
100 Interior Art Non Fiction Iron Man, Plastic Ships Val Lakey
115 Interior Art Non Fiction Iron Man, Plastic Ships [2] Val Lakey
127 Interior Art Non Fiction Degraded! Janet Aulisio
136 Interior Art Non Fiction Homecoming George Barr
152 Interior Art Non Fiction Homecoming [2] George Barr
161 Interior Art Non Fiction Homecoming [3] George Barr