Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact August 1987 (Vol.107, No.8)
Cover by Janet Aulisio (for "The Love Song of Laura Morrison.")

Novelettes: "Candle in a Cosmic Wind" by Joseph Manzione
"Lightning Rod" by W. R. Thompson
"Cobwebs" by Ray Brown.

Science Fact: "Memetics and the Modular Mind - Modeling the Development of Social Movements" by H. Keith Henson.

Stories "The Love Song of Laura Morrison" by Jerry Oltion
"Guilt Trip" by Charles Sheffield
"Letter from Tomorrow" by Poul Anderson
"Turing Test" by D. C. Poyer
"So Shall Ye Reap" by George Alec Effinger.

Stanley Schmidt's editorial is "The Memetic Menace."