The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: January 1982 (Volume 62, Number 1)
Cover by Paul Chadwick ("Starhaven.")

Novelets: "Souls" by Joanna Russ (this won Hugo award - best novella; Nebula nominee)
"The Night Stair" by Mike Conner.

Stories: "Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordperson" by George Alec Effinger (begins series)
"Spare the Child" by Thomas F. Monteleone
"Houseguest" by Timothy Zahn
"The Dream Executioner" by Richard Grant
"The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists" by Harlan Ellison
"Starhaven" by Charles Platt & Shawna McCarthy

Science: "The Long Ellipse" by Isaac Asimov.