The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: February 1982 (Volume 62, Number 2)
Cover by David Hardy ("High Steel.")

Novelets: "Spareen and the Old Turk" by Susan C. Petry (a "Varkela" tale)
"Nightlife" by Phyllis Eisenstein (Hugo nominee.)

Stories: "Understanding Human Behavior" by Thomas M. Disch (Nebula nominee)
"Sargeant Pepper Variations" by Howard Roller & Parke Godwiin
"Mascots" by Stanley Schmidt
"Blackmail" by George Florance-Guthridge
"Almost Heaven" by Garry Kilworth
"High Steel" by Jack C. Haldeman II & Jack Dann (1st in "John Sentry" series; Nebula nominee.)

Science: "The Circle of the Earth" by Isaac Asimov.