CONTENTS Novella "Hardfought" by Greg Bear Short Stories "The Demon and the Pentagram" by Martin Gardner "Potential" by Isaac Asimov "Glimpses" by Robert F. Young "Oft in Offwana" by Al Sirois and Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. "Sweet Song of Death" by Stephen Kimmel "The Crystal Sunlight, the Bright Air" by Mary Gentle "Eat Motel" by Steven Bryan Bieler "The Gray Maelstrom" by Daniel Keys Mor CONTENTS Novella "Hardfought" by Greg Bear Short Stories "The Demon and the Pentagram" by Martin Gardner "Potential" by Isaac Asimov "Glimpses" by Robert F. Young "Oft in Offwana" by Al Sirois and Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. "Sweet Song of Death" by Stephen Kimmel "The Crystal Sunlight, the Bright Air" by Mary Gentle "Eat Motel" by Steven Bryan Bieler "The Gray Maelstrom" by Daniel Keys Moran "Power Times One" by J. Michael Matuszewicz "Perfection" by Henry Leon Lazarus Poetry "Anteaus (The Prodigious Builders)" by Roger Dutcher "Get Lost, Lowlife!" by Don Anderson "Improbable Bestiary: The Invisible Man" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre "Casting Glances" by Peter Payack "Farewell and Then Forever" by Anne Devereaux Jordan Departments "Editorial: More Asimov?" by Isaac Asimov "On Books" by Baird Searles "Mooney's Module" by Gerry Mooney "IAsfm Puzzle #7: White Holes" by Merl H. Reagle "Gaming" by Dana Lombardy "Letters" "SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1983, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Whole No. 62) Shawna McCarthy, editor Cover art by Don Brautigam