Novelettes
"The Tarot Dice" by Mary R. Gentle
"Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire" by Harry Turtledove
Short Stories
"Too Bad!" by Isaac Asimov
"Dilemma" by Connie Willis
"The Energies of Love" by Kathe Koja
"Renaissance" by Nancy Kress
"Lunar Triptych: Embracing the Night" by Richard Paul Russo
"Three Evocations of the Mutant Rain Forest" by Bruce Boston
"The Color of Grass, the Color of Blood" by R. V. Branham
"The Better Half" by Melanie Tem
Poetry
"Afterlife" by James Patrick Kelly
"Untitled" by William John Watkins
"First Contact" by Roger Dutcher
"Report" by Mary A. Turzillo
"When I See Rigel's Light Sleeting Through the Side of Heinlein Station" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Departments
"Editorial: Metaphor" by Isaac Asimov
"Letters"
"Neat Stuff" by Matthew J. Costello
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1989, Vol. 13, No. 13
Gardner R. Dozois, editor
Cover art by Gary Freeman
Novelettes
"The Tarot Dice" by Mary R. Gentle
"Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire" by Harry Turtledove
Short Stories
"Too Bad!" by Isaac Asimov
"Dilemma" by Connie Willis
"The Energies of Love" by Kathe Koja
"Renaissance" by Nancy Kress
"Lunar Triptych: Embracing the Night" by Richard Paul Russo
"Three Evocations of the Mutant Rain Forest" by Bruce Boston
"The Color of Grass, the Color of Blood" by R. V. Branham
"The Better Half" by Melanie Tem
Poetry
"Afterlife" by James Patrick Kelly
"Untitled" by William John Watkins
"First Contact" by Roger Dutcher
"Report" by Mary A. Turzillo
"When I See Rigel's Light Sleeting Through the Side of Heinlein Station" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Departments
"Editorial: Metaphor" by Isaac Asimov
"Letters"
"Neat Stuff" by Matthew J. Costello
"On Books" by Baird Searles
"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1989, Vol. 13, No. 13
Gardner R. Dozois, editor
Cover art by Gary Freeman