An edition of Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact, Fall 1980, Vol. 2, No. 4
(1980)
Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact, Fall 1980, Vol. 2, No. 4
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This is the ninth of eleven volumes of the paperback magazine, 'Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact.' Originly planned to be published six times a year, but by issue #4, its title page listed it as being "Published four times a year." The series lasted for a total of eleven books, it was followed by 'New Destinies' in 1987.
The Staff for this issue are;
* Art Director: Charles Volpe
* Assistant Editors: Susan Allison
* Editor: James Patrick Baen
* Interior Illustrations by Janet Aulisio, Steve Fabian and Gary Freeman.
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Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact, Fall 1980, Vol. 2, No. 4
November 1980, Ace Books
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0441143032 9780441143030
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Table of Contents
Fiction
Novelets
Hidden Variable. By Charles Sheffield. 47
Gone Past. By Richard Wilson. 168
The Automatic Rifleman. By David Drake. 226
Short Stories
Recessional. By Fred Saberhagen. 6
Pick An Orifice. By Gregory Benford. 82
Speculative Fact
New Beginnings. (The Insurmountable Opportunity: The most important single step that could be taken to ensure the survival of the human race would be to establish a colony on the moon.) By J. E. Pournelle. 27
The Day the Sky Burned. (Sometime during the next five to ten years one or 'both major powers will possess energy weapons capable of gutting ICBMs like so many trout. The Soviets will definitely have them.) By G. Harry Stine. 91
On Predicting the Future. (The Wizard Wars: Fred doesn't believe a word of it.) By Frederik Pohl. 113
Peace From On High. (Another reason for Space. Perhaps the best one of all.) By Joe Haldeman. 133
Nuclear Survival. (Living Under Pressure: You're downwind from a nuclear strike. You've got four hours to rig a fallout shelter. GO! (Those who don't believe in Russians may replace "nuclear strike" with "reactor blow-out." The odds against the latter event are astronomical-but... you'll be prepared for the strike.) By Dean Ing. 147
On Books. (What distinguishes science fantasy from science fiction is the bunk.) By Norman Spinrad. 213
Expanded Universe, Part I I. (The Happy Days Ahead: Where we are, where we're going, and what to do about it. (Nobody said it would be easy.)) By Robert A. Heinlein. 252
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