CONTENTS Novelette "Empire State" by Keith Minnion Short Stories "Catch the BEM" by Martin Gardner "Dinner in Audoghast" by Bruce Sterling "The Tree of Dreams" by Scott Russell Sanders "The War at Home" by Lewis Shiner "After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee" by Pat Cadigan "Preliminary Notes on the Jang" by Lisa Goldstein "Anyone Here from Utah?" by Michael Swanwick "Sea Changes" by Marta CONTENTS Novelette "Empire State" by Keith Minnion Short Stories "Catch the BEM" by Martin Gardner "Dinner in Audoghast" by Bruce Sterling "The Tree of Dreams" by Scott Russell Sanders "The War at Home" by Lewis Shiner "After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee" by Pat Cadigan "Preliminary Notes on the Jang" by Lisa Goldstein "Anyone Here from Utah?" by Michael Swanwick "Sea Changes" by Marta Randall "The Woman Who Saved the World" by Susan Palwick "On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away" by Pat Murphy "A Clean Escape" by John Kessel Poetry "Shipwrecked on Destiny Five" by Andrew Joron "The Dreamer Acquires Legs" by Steve Rasnic Tem "The Berserker Enters a Plea on the Death of Greater Los Angeles (Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)" by Bruce Boston "Ed White, Spacewalking, June 3, 1965" by Robert Frazier Departments "Editorial: Moonshine" by Isaac Asimov "Letters" "Mooney's Module" by Gerry Mooney "Gaming" by Dana Lombardy "Viewpoint: The Little Tin God of Characterization" by Isaac Asimov "On Books" by Baird Searles "SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1985, Vol. 9, No. 5 (Whole No. 91) Shawna McCarthy, editor Cover art by J. K. Potter