Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine December 1985
(Volume 9, No. 12 – Whole #98) Cover: Val Lakey Lindahn (for "Empire Dreams")

Novelettes: "Empire Dreams" by Ian McDonald
"The War of the Roses" by Karen Joy Fowler
"Meadows of Light" by Sydney J. Van Scyoc.

Stories: "O Little Town of Bethlehem II" by Robert F. Young
"’…How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song…’" by Lucius Shepard
"The Nebraskan and the Nereid" by Gene Wolfe
"Boulevard Life" by Robert Charles Wilson.

Viewpoint: "Toward Artificial Intelligence" by Marvin Minsky.