Short Stories
"Piggy's Glasses and the Moon" by Martin Gardner
"The Protector" by Art Vesity
"Stomping Down Stroka Prospect" by Richard A. Lupoff
"The Mysterious Cure" by J. O. Jeppson
"Quill Tripstickler Hits Bottim" by John Shirley
"Heart in Winter" by Rand B. Lee
"The Ballad of Jake the Snake and the Rock-and-Roll Kid" by J. P. Killus
"A Long Way Home" by Sheila Finch-Rayner
Poetry
"Syrup" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"Loren Eiseley's Time Passages" by Robert Frazier
Departments
"Up Front" by Kathleen Moloney
"Editorial: Violence and Incompetence" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"Mooney's Module" by Gerry Mooney
"IAsfm Puzzle #5: Men of Letters" by Merl H. Reagle
"Profile: Jerry Pournelle" by Charles Platt
"Letters"
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1982, Vol. 6, No. 13
Kathleen Moloney, editor
Cover art by Wayne D. Barlowe
Short Stories
"Piggy's Glasses and the Moon" by Martin Gardner
"The Protector" by Art Vesity
"Stomping Down Stroka Prospect" by Richard A. Lupoff
"The Mysterious Cure" by J. O. Jeppson
"Quill Tripstickler Hits Bottim" by John Shirley
"Heart in Winter" by Rand B. Lee
"The Ballad of Jake the Snake and the Rock-and-Roll Kid" by J. P. Killus
"A Long Way Home" by Sheila Finch-Rayner
Poetry
"Syrup" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"Loren Eiseley's Time Passages" by Robert Frazier
Departments
"Up Front" by Kathleen Moloney
"Editorial: Violence and Incompetence" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"Mooney's Module" by Gerry Mooney
"IAsfm Puzzle #5: Men of Letters" by Merl H. Reagle
"Profile: Jerry Pournelle" by Charles Platt
"Letters"
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1982, Vol. 6, No. 13
Kathleen Moloney, editor
Cover art by Wayne D. Barlowe