5 • Advice for Crackpots • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Stanley Schmidt12 • Moment of Inertia • [McAndrew Chronicles • 2] • novelette by Charles Sheffield41 • Biolog: Charles Sheffield • [Biolog] • essay by Jay Kay Klein44 • The Physics of Haunting • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Donald G. Carpenter54 • Galaxy Formation • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by John Gribbin [as by Dr. John Gribbin ]62 • Ideologies • novelette by Steven E. McDonald107 • A Letter to the Editor • essay by Algis Budrys115 • The Gold of Galileo • novelette by Christopher Anvil140 • In Times to Come (Analog, October 1980) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited143 • AnaLog: A Calendar of Upcoming Events (Analog, October 1980) • [Upcoming Events] • essay by Anthony R. Lewis [as by Anthony Lewis ]144 • Self-Evident Truths • shortstory by Charles Arent157 • The Ethics of Rhetoric • [The Alternate View] • essay by Jerry Pournelle163 • The Reference Library (Analog, October 1980) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton ]171 • Brass Tacks (Analog, October 1980) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by uncredited
