ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

Volume 2 Number 5

(Whole Number 9)

September October 1978

Contents

Editorial: By No Means Vulgar - Isaac Asimov

On Books - Charles N. Brown

IASFM Book Discount Department

Softly Touch Ther Stranger's Mind - E. Amelia Andujar

The Toroids Of Dr. Klonefake - Martin Gardner

Michael Whelan - Ginger Kaderabek

The Bitter End - Randall Garrett

The SF Conventional Calendar - Erwin S. Strauss

On Theories & Experiments - Milton A. Rothman

An Eye For Detail - Jesse Peel

Bat Durston, Space Marshal - G. Richard Bozarth

Thirty Love - Jack C. Haldeman II

The Victor Hours - Ted Reynolds

Inevitability Sphere - Jeff Duntemann

The Adventure Of The Global Traveler - Anne Lear

On Man's Role In The Galaxy - R. N. Bracewell

Scrap From The Notebooks Of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - K. W. MacAnn

Seasoning - Hal Clement

Letters

Cover - Michael Whelan