Amazing Stories November 1990 (Volume 65, Number 4; Whole #555)
Cover by G. Howl.

Fiction: "When the Ship Comes In" - by R. Garcia y Robertson
"Cicatrix" by John Hegenberger
"Living the Legend" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Command Performance" by Kathe Koja
"A Man Makes a Machine" by Richard Chwedyk
"Behind the Eyes of Dreamers" by Pamela Sargent (novelet.)

Essay: "Style, Substance, and Other Illusions" by Gregory Benford.

Features include "Reflections" by Robert Silverberg, Poetry by John M. Ford, Dana Sonnenschein, Geoffrey A. Landis.