Contents:

• 1 •"Striking a Balance: Robert Silverberg's Lord of Darkness, Dying Inside and Others" • Robert Killheffer
• 1 • "Universal Principles of Operation" (pt. 2)• Alexei and Cory Panshin
• 2 • Avon Books full-page ad
• 7 • Read This • Pat Cadigan
• 9 • Jim Young Sketch of John W. Campbell, Jr
• 10 • Susan Palwick on Ray Bradbury's The Toynbee Convector
• 11 • Greg Cox on Allen Steele's Orbital Decay
• 13 • Read This • David Brin
• 14 • "The Amateur Demographer Goes to the Bookstore"• Michael Swanwick Generational Saga: Responses to Kathryn Cramer's article "The New Generation Gap"
• 16 • Pamela Sargent Generation Gap response
• 17 • Isaac Asimov Generation Gap response
• 17 • Hal Clement Generation Gap respons
• 17 • Jessica Amanda Salmonson Generation Gap response
• 18 • Samuel R. Delany Generation Gap response
• 18 • Stanley Schmidt Generation Gap
• 18 • Roger Zelazny Generation Gap response
• 18 • Michael Bishop Generation Gap response
• 18 • Michael Swanwick Generation Gap
• 18 • Bruce Sterling Generation Gap response
• 19 • Ursula K. Le Guin Generation Gap response
• 19 • Frederik Pohl Generation Gap response
• 19 • Ben Bova Generation Gap response
• 19 • Jane Yolen Generation Gap response
• 19 • Gene Wolfe Generation Gap response
• 20 • James Blaylock Generation Gap response
• 20 • John Brunner Generation Gap response
• 20 • L. W. Currey quarter-page ad
• 20 • L. E. Modesitt, Jr. on Judith Moffett's Pennterra
• 21 • "Drowning in the Alien: Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed and Ancient Light Considered as a Single Novel " • Amy Thomson
• 22 • Patrick Nielsen Hayden Letter of Comment
• 22 • John J. Pierce Letter of Comment
• 22 • Fred Harris Letter of Comment
• 22 • Rebecca Ore Letter of Comment
• 23 • L. W. Currey bibliographies of Katherine Anne MacLean and Robert L. Forward
• 24 • Editorial: "Workshops and Workshopping"