Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine December 1984
(Volume 8, No. 12 – Whole #85) Cover: Robert Walters.

Novelettes: "Promises to Keep" by Jack McDevitt (same universe as "Melville on Iapetus")
"Reaper" by Lucius Shepard
"The Other Kind" by Lisa Tuttle
"Life on the Earth" by Wayne Wightman.

Stories: "Ever After" by Lisa Goldstein
"Nets of Silver and Gold" by James P. Blaylock
"The Empty World" by James Patrick Kelly (formed part of Kelly & Kessel’s Freedom Beach.)

Viewpoint: "In Search of Surprises" by Charles Platt.