editor: Schmidt Stanley, Davis Publications, Inc., 1981
5 • The Prevention of War: About Unthinking the Thinkable • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Reginald Bretnor14 • Dawn (Part 4 of 4) • serial by Dean McLaughlin52 • In Times to Come (Analog, July 1981) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited53 • Extraterrestrial Zoology • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Robert A. Freitas, Jr.68 • Publishing Time • shortstory by Lawrence Fine70 • Gentle into That Good Night • shortstory by Joseph Green84 • Biolog: Joseph Green • [Biolog] • essay by Jay Kay Klein85 • More About Those Books • [The Alternate View] • essay by G. Harry Stine88 • Deep Joat • novelette by Ian Stewart110 • Blessings Well Mixed • shortstory by Jack Alston120 • The Blue-Tail Fly • shortstory by Thomas A. Easton130 • The Iceworm Special • shortstory by Joseph P. Martino [as by Joe Martino ]138 • The Giftie Gie Us • novelette by Timothy Zahn161 • The Reference Library (Analog, July 1981) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton ]166 • Review of the nonfiction work "The Death of Rocketry" by Robert Cook and Joel Dickinson • essay by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton ]170 • AnaLog: A Calendar of Upcoming Events (Analog, July 1981) • [Upcoming Events] • essay by Anthony R. Lewis [as by Anthony Lewis ]171 • Brass Tacks (Analog, July 1981) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by uncredited