Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 8, August 3, 1981

CONTENTSNovelettes"Conversion" by Bob Shaw"The Dust" by Somtow Sucharitkul"Slac//" by Michael P. Kube-McDowellShort Stories"Sea Changeling" by Mildred Downey Broxon"The Balls of Aleph-Null Inn" by Martin Gardner"Interlude in a Laboratory" by Steve Rasnic Tem"Magic, the Sea, & Our Conference in Avernus" by J. P. Boyd"Highest Honor" by Hank Simpson"Away From It All" by Joanne Mitchell"Dinosaur Weather" by Dona VaughnPoetry"Haiku for the Solar Sail" by Robert Frazier"Haiku for Voyager 1" by Robert Frazier"Modern Pythagoras" by William E. Nilsen"Honest Approach (by 79116)" by William E. Nilsen"Improbable Bestiary: The Genie in the Lamp" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyreDepartments"Editorial: The Influence of Science Fiction" by Isaac Asimov"On Books" by Baird Searles"Basic Genesis" by Barry B. Longyear, Jerry Pournelle, Wang 5/1, and Ezekial"The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss"Letters"Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 3, 1981, Vol. 5, No. 8 (Whole No. 42)George H. Scithers, editorCover art by David Mattingly