Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Mid-December 1988 (Volume 12, No. 13 – Whole #138)
Illustrations by Gary Freeman, Janet Aulisio, Hank Jankus, Laura Lakey, Anthony Bari, George Thompson, Nichola Jainschigg, Terry Lee. Cover by Gary Freeman (for "Christmas Without Rodney”)

Novelettes: "The Lunatics" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"Distances” by Kathe Koja
"Lizaveta” by Gregory Frost
"The Function of Dream Sleep” by Harlan Ellison [Hugo nominee; earlier published in MIDNIGHT GRAFITTI - June 1988].

Stories: "Christmas Without Rodney” by Isaac Asimov
"Wild Child” by Judith Moffett (poetry; reprint)
"One Morning, With Samuel, Dorothy, and William" by Avram Davidson
"Live from the Mars Hotel" by Allen M. Steele
"Here Comes Bunky" by Ron Goulart
"Joan's World” by Ian Watson.

Regular features include an editorial by Isaac Asimov, Gaming column by Matthew J. Costello, a letter column, "The SF Conventional Calendar” by Erwin S. Strauss, Norman Spinrad: "On Books.”