Dell · January, 1978
Vol. 2 #1
Editorial; The Barbie Murders; The Case of the Defective Doyles; True Love; There Will Be a Sign; Panic; Particle Hypothesis Camp (poem); Birthday Party; Ivory Tower Meets Middle America; A Mother’s Heart: A True Bear Story; A Delicate Shade of Kipney; They’ll Do It Every Time; Rejection Slip (poem); African Blues; The SF Conventional Calendar; The Thrill of Victory; On Books (In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford; The Dark Design by Philip José Farmer; The Forbidden Tower by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Cirque by Terry Carr; A Little Knowledge by Michael Bishop; Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock; The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock; The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 by Terry Carr; The 1977 Annual World’s Best SF by Donald A. Wollheim; Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois; Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson; Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin; Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter; Queens Walk in the Dusk by Thomas Burnett Swann; Once Upon a Time by David Larkin; The Land of Froud by Brian Froud; The Dream of X by William Hope Hodgson); The Witches of Manhattan; Letters
Writers: Isaac Asimov, John Varley, Martin Gardner, John M. Ford, Stanley Schmidt, Lee Russell, Keith Laumer, Tony Rothman, Lisa Tuttle, Nancy Kress, Cam Thornley, Mark Grenier, Paula Smith, Erwin S. Strauss, Jack C. Haldeman II, II, Charles N. Brown, L. Sprague de Camp, Michael McCollum
Artists: Jack Gaughan, Alex Schomburg, Freff, Rick Sternbach, George Barr, Don Simpson, Kelly Freas