editor: Schmidt Stanley, Condé Nast Publications, Inc., 1980
5 • Hyperdemocracy • [Editorial (Astounding)] • (1958) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.14 • The Humanoid Universe • [Humanoids] • novelette by Jack Williamson57 • Beyond First Contact • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by M. David Stone68 • Have You Heard the One ... ? • [Callahan] • novelette by Spider Robinson86 • Rings of Death • shortstory by Paul J. Nahin91 • In Times to Come (Analog, June 1980) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited98 • In the Beginning ... was Campbell • essay by Frank Kelly Freas103 • Twilight Song • [The Alternate View] • essay by Jerry Pournelle110 • One Time in Alexandria • novelette by Donald Franson133 • AnaLog: A Calendar of Upcoming Events (Analog, June 1980) • [Upcoming Events] • essay by Anthony R. Lewis [as by Anthony Lewis ]136 • Given A, Then Bee • shortstory by Dean R. Lambe152 • Downeast Encounter • [Howie Wyman] • shortstory by Thomas A. Easton163 • The Reference Library (Analog, June 1980) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton ]169 • Review of the nonfiction work "Beyond the Four Dimensions" by Karl Brinstein • essay by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton ]173 • Brass Tacks (Analog, June 1980) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by uncredited173 •  Letter (Analog, June 1980) • essay by Poul Anderson177 • The Analytical Laboratory 1979 (Analog, June 1980) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by Stanley Schmidt