Novelettes "The Portrait of Baron Negay" by Barry B. Longyear "The Woman the Unicorn Loved" by Gene Wolfe "Wind Instrument" by Steven Gould
Short Stories "Titan's Loch Meth Monster" by Martin Gardner "Bitch on the Bull Run" by Sharon Webb "Speaking¹⁰ to Others²; Speaking³ to Others²⁰" by Leigh Kennedy "Trial Sample" by Ted Reynolds "When the Old Man Waves the Banner" by Sharon N. Farber "Son of ETAOIN SHRDLU: More Adventures in Type and Space" by Sharon N. Farber, Susanna Jacobson, and James Killus
Poetry "Directions for Killing the Automated House" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Improbable Bestiary: The Yeti" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre "Pavlov's Cat" by Don Anderson
Departments "Editorial: What's a Galaxy?" by Isaac Asimov "On Books" by Baird Searles "Equilibrium, Stability, Feasibility, & All That" by Milton A. Rothman "Artist Profile: Frank Borth" by Elizabeth Mitchell "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss "Letters"
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 8, 1981, Vol. 5, No. 6 (Whole No. 40) George H. Scithers, editor Cover art by Robert Crawford