5 • Reflections on the Road • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Stanley Schmidt 12 • Virgy • novelette by Edward A. Byers 36 • New Communications Technologies and the Developing World • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Arthur C. Clarke 46 • Biolog: Arthur C. Clarke • [Biolog] • (1982) • essay by Jay Kay Klein 48 • Pixie Dixon and the Mystery of the Haunted Playpen • shortstory by Ray Brown 60 • A Calendar of Upcoming Events (Analog, March 29 1982) • [Upcoming Events] • essay by Anthony R. Lewis [as by Anthony Lewis ] 62 • Schrödinger's Plague • shortstory by Greg Bear 70 • Pawn's Gambit • novelette by Timothy Zahn 94 • Shake It All the Time • shortstory by Sam Nicholson 107 • The Defense of the Realm • [The Alternate View] • essay by Jerry Pournelle 112 • Courtship Rite (Part 3 of 4) • [Courtship Rite Universe] • serial by Donald Kingsbury 162 • The Reference Library (Analog, March 29 1982) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton ] 168 • In Times to Come (Analog, March 29 1982) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited 169 • Brass Tacks (Analog, March 29 1982) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by uncredited