CONTENTS Novella "Her Girl Friday" by John Varley Novelettes "The Lotus and the Spear" by Mike Resnick "Chamber Story" by Tom Purdom "Impact Parameter" by Geoffrey A. Landis "Reef Apes" by Dave Smeds Short Story "Bats" by Diane de Avalle-Arce Poetry "Time-Winds" by David Lunde "What Trees Dream About in Their Prodigious Silence" by Bruce Boston Departments "Editorial: Sold!" by Isaac As CONTENTS Novella "Her Girl Friday" by John Varley Novelettes "The Lotus and the Spear" by Mike Resnick "Chamber Story" by Tom Purdom "Impact Parameter" by Geoffrey A. Landis "Reef Apes" by Dave Smeds Short Story "Bats" by Diane de Avalle-Arce Poetry "Time-Winds" by David Lunde "What Trees Dream About in Their Prodigious Silence" by Bruce Boston Departments "Editorial: Sold!" by Isaac Asimov " 6th Annual Reader's Award Results" "Letters" "On Books: New World Order" by Norman Spinrad "SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1992, Vol. 16, No. 9 (Whole No. 189) Gardner R. Dozois, editor Cover art by E. T. Steadman