Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact November 1989 (Vol.109, No.11)
Illustrations by Janet Aulisio, William R. Warren, Jr., Todd Cameron Hamilton, Gary Freeman, Val Lakey Lindahn, Nicholas Jainschigg. Cover by Janet Aulisio (for "Flaw on Serendip.")

Serial: "Sparrowhawk" (Part 2 of 3) by Thomas A. Easton.

Novelettes: "Flaw on Serendip" by J. Brian Clarke
"The Hand That Rocks the Casket" by Timothy Zahn.

Science Fact: "IUE: The First Geosynchronous Orbiting Observatory" by Yoji Kondo.

Stories "Tipover" by Kip D. Cassino
"Beyond the Whistle Test" by Greg Egan
"Little Monsters" by Amy Bechtel.

Stanley Schmidt's editorial is "Town Meeting."