Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: October 1979 Cover: George Barr (for "The Homecoming")

Featured stories:
"Mandalay" by John M. Ford (novelette)
"A Day in Mallworld" by Somtow Sucharitkul (begins a series)
"Iron Man, Plastic Ships" by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (novelette)
"The Homecoming" by Barry B. Longyear (novella.)
Profile/article "On Commissioned Imaginations" by Sandra Miesel (Kelly Freas & NASA – with illustrations by Freas.)