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• 4 • Impulse: Editorial (Quantum #38) • [Impulse: Editorial] • essay by Doug Fratz
• 5 • A Shepard Walkabout • (1989) • essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 7 • Emphatically Not SF, Almost • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Introduction (Emphatically Not SF, Almost))
• 10 • An Interview with Connie Willis • interview of Connie Willis • interview by Steven Paul Olson
• 13 • Realism • essay by Andrew Weiner
• 15 • Words & Pictures: Movie Reviews (Quantum #38) • [Words & Pictures] • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
• 18 • Michael P. Kube-McDowell: Renaissance Man • essay by Wanda J. Hall
• 20 •   Review: The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin • review by Jeremiah Patrick Reilly
• 22 •   Review: The Stars Must Wait by Keith Laumer • review by Steven Sawicki
• 23 •   Review: A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson • review by uncredited
• 23 •   Review: Castleview by Gene Wolfe • review by Pascal J. Thomas
• 24 •   Review: Polar City Blues by Katharine Kerr • review by Sharon E. Martin
• 24 •   Review: Look Into the Sun by James Patrick Kelly • review by Pascal J. Thomas
• 24 •   Review: Spell Bound by Ru Emerson • review by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
• 25 •   Review: Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird by Elizabeth Moon • review by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
• 25 •   Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois • review by Doug Fratz
• 25 •   Review: Alien Sex by Ellen Datlow • review by Doug Fratz
• 25 •   Review: Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein • review by Doug Fratz
• 25 •   Review: The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein • review by Doug Fratz
• 26 •   Review: Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson • review by Greg Costikyan
• 26 •   Review: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine • review by Pascal J. Thomas
• 26 •   Review: Black Snow Days by Claudia O'Keefe • review by Jeremiah Patrick Reilly
• 27 • Stories Under My Skin (Quantum #38) • essay by Anthony Trull
• 27 •   Review: Othersyde by J. Michael Straczynski • review by Andrew Andrews
• 28 •   Review: The Quiet Pools by Michael P. Kube-McDowell • review by Lane A. Geyer
• 28 •   Review: The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein • review by Andrew Andrews
• 28 •   Review: The 1990 Annual World's Best SF by Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim • review by Jeremiah Patrick Reilly
• 29 •   Review: Light Raid by Cynthia Felice and Connie Willis • review by Nancy Hayes
• 29 •   Review: Abduction: The UFO Conspiracy by David Bischoff • review by Sharon E. Martin
• 30 •   Review: Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson • review by Anthony Trull
• 30 •   Review: A Thunder on Neptune by Gordon Eklund • review by Gini Mittel