Novelettes
"Dance Band on the Titanic" by Jack L. Chalker
"When We Come Down" by Stephen Leigh
"Fragger's Bottom Line... Line... Line..." by Sherwood Springer
"The Suicide of Man" by John Brunner
Short Stories
"Cautionary Tales" by Larry Niven
"The Great Ring of Neptune" by Martin Gardner
"Horseless Carriage" by Michael A. Banks
"Message to Myself" by Diana L. Paxson
"Public Relations" by Ginger Kaderabek
"On the Way" by Conway Conley
"But Do They Ride Dolphins?" by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.
"One Rejection Too Many" by Patricia Nurse
Poetry
"And One For My Friend Here, Please" by John M. Ford
"In Re Literati" by John M. Ford
Departments
"Editorial: It's a Funny Thing" by Isaac Asimov
"The New Magazine" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Charles N. Brown
"Frank Kelly Freas" by Ginger Kaderabek
"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
"Letters"
"Leigh Brackett Hamilton: 7 December 1915 - 18 March 1978" by Randall Garrett
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 1978, Vol. 2, No. 4
George H. Scithers, editor
Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas
Novelettes
"Dance Band on the Titanic" by Jack L. Chalker
"When We Come Down" by Stephen Leigh
"Fragger's Bottom Line... Line... Line..." by Sherwood Springer
"The Suicide of Man" by John Brunner
Short Stories
"Cautionary Tales" by Larry Niven
"The Great Ring of Neptune" by Martin Gardner
"Horseless Carriage" by Michael A. Banks
"Message to Myself" by Diana L. Paxson
"Public Relations" by Ginger Kaderabek
"On the Way" by Conway Conley
"But Do They Ride Dolphins?" by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.
"One Rejection Too Many" by Patricia Nurse
Poetry
"And One For My Friend Here, Please" by John M. Ford
"In Re Literati" by John M. Ford
Departments
"Editorial: It's a Funny Thing" by Isaac Asimov
"The New Magazine" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Charles N. Brown
"Frank Kelly Freas" by Ginger Kaderabek
"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
"Letters"
"Leigh Brackett Hamilton: 7 December 1915 - 18 March 1978" by Randall Garrett
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 1978, Vol. 2, No. 4
George H. Scithers, editor
Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas