Novelettes
"The Bitter End" by Randall Garrett
"Seasoning" by Hal Clement
Short Stories
"Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind" by E. Amalia Andujar
"The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake" by Martin Gardner
"An Eye for Detail" by Jesse Peel
"Bat Durston, Space Marshal" by G. Richard Bozarth
"Thirty Love" by Jack C. Haldeman II
"The Victor Hours" by Ted Reynolds
"Errata Slip" by Edward Wellen
"Inevitability Sphere" by Jeff Duntemann
"The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie" by Anne Lear
"Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" by K. W. MacAnn
Poetry
"El Ropo Tarkas" by Randall Garrett
"Rebuttal To $tar War$" by T'Pat
Departments
"Editorial: By No Means Vulgar" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Charles N. Brown
"Michael Whelan" by Ginger Kaderabek
"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
"On Theories & Experiments" by Milton A. Rothman
"On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy" by R. N. Bracewell
"Letters"
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 1978, Vol. 2, No. 5
George H. Scithers, editor
Cover art by Michael Whelan
Novelettes
"The Bitter End" by Randall Garrett
"Seasoning" by Hal Clement
Short Stories
"Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind" by E. Amalia Andujar
"The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake" by Martin Gardner
"An Eye for Detail" by Jesse Peel
"Bat Durston, Space Marshal" by G. Richard Bozarth
"Thirty Love" by Jack C. Haldeman II
"The Victor Hours" by Ted Reynolds
"Errata Slip" by Edward Wellen
"Inevitability Sphere" by Jeff Duntemann
"The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie" by Anne Lear
"Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" by K. W. MacAnn
Poetry
"El Ropo Tarkas" by Randall Garrett
"Rebuttal To $tar War$" by T'Pat
Departments
"Editorial: By No Means Vulgar" by Isaac Asimov
"On Books" by Charles N. Brown
"Michael Whelan" by Ginger Kaderabek
"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
"On Theories & Experiments" by Milton A. Rothman
"On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy" by R. N. Bracewell
"Letters"
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 1978, Vol. 2, No. 5
George H. Scithers, editor
Cover art by Michael Whelan