Novelettes
"Foreign Devils" by Walter Jon Williams
"The Temptation of Dr Stein" by Paul J. McAuley
"Pyros" by George M. Ewing
"Bettina's Bet" by L. Timmel Duchamp
Short Stories
"Invasion" by Joanna Russ
"Cider" by Tom Purdom
"Live from the Occupation" by Eric T. Baker
Poetry
"Curse of the SF Writer's Wife" by Bruce Boston
"Curse of the Body-Thief's Wife" by Bruce Boston
"Astronaut Boneyard" by Wendy Rathbone
Departments
"Reflections: The Twentieth Century Battery" by Robert Silverberg
"Letters"
"On Books: Keeping the Faith" by Norman Spinrad
"Index"
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1996, Vol. 20, No. 1
Gardner R. Dozois, editor
Cover art by Paul Youll
Novelettes
"Foreign Devils" by Walter Jon Williams
"The Temptation of Dr Stein" by Paul J. McAuley
"Pyros" by George M. Ewing
"Bettina's Bet" by L. Timmel Duchamp
Short Stories
"Invasion" by Joanna Russ
"Cider" by Tom Purdom
"Live from the Occupation" by Eric T. Baker
Poetry
"Curse of the SF Writer's Wife" by Bruce Boston
"Curse of the Body-Thief's Wife" by Bruce Boston
"Astronaut Boneyard" by Wendy Rathbone
Departments
"Reflections: The Twentieth Century Battery" by Robert Silverberg
"Letters"
"On Books: Keeping the Faith" by Norman Spinrad
"Index"
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1996, Vol. 20, No. 1
Gardner R. Dozois, editor
Cover art by Paul Youll