Amazing Science Fiction: March 1983 (Volume 56, Number 5)
[note that the Volume & Number have been corrected to match the system in place through August 1979.]
Illustrations by Alex Schomburg, Jack Gaughan, Karl Kofoed, Stephen Fabian, Frank Borth, George Barr. Cover by Jack Gaughan (for "Against Infinity.")

Fiction: "Epitaph" by Bill Pronzini
"I Lost My Love to the Space Shuttle Columbia" by Damien Broderick
"Favor" by J. Michael Matuszewicz
"The Desert of Vast Eternity" + "There is an Index By First Lines" (verse) by Tom Disch
"Continued Lunacy" by Darrell Schweitzer
"In the Islands" by Pat Murphy
"The Syncopated Man" by Sharon Webb
"Sand Painting" by Allen L. Wold
"On the Rebound" by Jack C. Haldeman II

Serial: "Against Infinity" (Part 1) by Gregory Benford.

Nonfiction/Essays: "An Interview with A. Bertram Chandler" conducted by Darrell Schweitzer
"Improbable Bestiary: The Troll" (verse) by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
"The Amazing Years" by Cele Goldsmith Lalli.