Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact January 1988 (Vol.108, No.1)
Illustrations by David Hardy, Nicholas Jainshigg, Judy Mitchell, William R. Warren, Jr., Vincent Di Fate. Cover by David Hardy (for "Strangers.")

Serial: "Falling Free" (Part 3 of 4) by Lois McMaster Bujold. [Nebula winner, Hugo nominee]

Novelettes: "Strangers" by Poul Anderson
"The Worlds I Used to Know" by Rick Shelley

Science Fact: "Cosmology Without the Big Bang" by Paul S. Wesson.

The State of the Art: "The Last Cavalier: H. Beam Piper" by John F. Carr (article)

Stories "Now You See It" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"User Friendly" by Alice Laurance.

Stanley Schmidt's editorial is "Matters of Principle."