Analog Science Fact & Fiction October 1961 (Volume 68, Number 3)
Illustrations by John Schoenherr, H. R. Van Dongen, Douglas. Cover by John Schoenherr (for "Lion Loose.")

Short Novel: "Lion Loose" by James H. Schimtz (a "Hub" story featuring "Bad News" Quillan.)
[This is my favorite story by Schmitz: from the ever-resourceful Quillan (who ties in with Trigger Argee in A Tale of Two Clocks) to the title creature - which can "walk" through walls.]

Stories: "Love Me True" by Gordon R. Dickson
"The Asses of Balaam" by David Gordon (Randall Garrett)
"The Man Who Played to Lose" by Larry M. Harris (Laurence M. Janifer.)

Serial: "Sense of Obligation" (Part 1 of 3) by Harry Harrison (book title was Planet of the Damned.)

Science: "Report on the Electric Field Rocket" by G. Harry Stine.

John W. Campbell's editorial is "Scientific Lynch Law"; Book reviews by P. Schuyler Miller.