Asimov's Science Fiction December 1992 (Volume 16, No. 14 – Whole #194)
Cover by David Cherry (for "The Nutcracker Coup")

Novelettes: "Sepoy" by Tom Purdom
"The Man in the Red Suit" by Diane Mapes
"Second Chance" by Mary Rosenblum
"The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan [Hugo winner: "best novelette," Nebula nominee - 1994]

Stories: "Alfred" by Lisa Goldstein [Nebula nominee - 1994]
"The Walk" by Greg Egan
"Thanatrope" by Mark W. Tiedemann
"The Sound of the River" by M. Shayne Bell.
Poems by Robert Frazier & James Patrick Kelly, Bonita Kale, Lawrence Schimel.