Novelettes
"What Mad Diversion" by Ted Reynolds
"Tradeground Eyes" by Coleman Brax
"Mallworld Graffiti" by Somtow Sucharitkul
Short Stories
"Scrambled Heads on Langwidere" by Martin Gardner
"Consternation & Empire" by J. O. Jeppson
"The Complaints Department" by John Brunner
"Bon Appetit" by Craig C. Koscho
"Written on the Water" by G. C. Edmondson
Poetry
"Regarding a Workshop Assignment That Asked: If You Were Stranded on the Ice in the Middle of a Frozen Lake, How Would You Get Off Sans Either Friction or Resistance?" by S. Scott Matulis
"Star Web" by Peter Payack
"Improbable Bestiary: The Gremlin and the Glitch" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Departments
"Editorial: Taking a Stand" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"Scanners Writhe in Pain" by Algis Budrys
"Commentary on 'I Think I Started Something'" by Chuck Crayne
"On the Years Without a Summer" by John Boardman
"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
"Letters"
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 31, 1981, Vol. 5, No. 9
George H. Scithers, editor
Cover art by George Angelini
Language
English
Pages
180
Format
Paperback
Release
August 31, 1981
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 9, August 31, 1981 (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, #43)
Novelettes
"What Mad Diversion" by Ted Reynolds
"Tradeground Eyes" by Coleman Brax
"Mallworld Graffiti" by Somtow Sucharitkul
Short Stories
"Scrambled Heads on Langwidere" by Martin Gardner
"Consternation & Empire" by J. O. Jeppson
"The Complaints Department" by John Brunner
"Bon Appetit" by Craig C. Koscho
"Written on the Water" by G. C. Edmondson
Poetry
"Regarding a Workshop Assignment That Asked: If You Were Stranded on the Ice in the Middle of a Frozen Lake, How Would You Get Off Sans Either Friction or Resistance?" by S. Scott Matulis
"Star Web" by Peter Payack
"Improbable Bestiary: The Gremlin and the Glitch" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Departments
"Editorial: Taking a Stand" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"Scanners Writhe in Pain" by Algis Budrys
"Commentary on 'I Think I Started Something'" by Chuck Crayne
"On the Years Without a Summer" by John Boardman
"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
"Letters"
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 31, 1981, Vol. 5, No. 9
George H. Scithers, editor
Cover art by George Angelini