Features seen every month include Richard Curtis’ column “Agent’s Corner,” LOCUS monthly bestseller list, “LOCUS Looks at Books” (book reviews by Faren Miller, Debbie Notkin - both every issue), column “Moons & Stars & Stuff” by Fritz Leiber; “People and Publishing (now almost a full page per issue),” and some issues have a letter column. Norman Spinrad’s column “Staying Alive” is only in February & April.

Issue #288: January 1985: J. G. Ballard: The Rewards of EMPIRE; Bantam Spectra: New SF Imprint; Berkley Forms Independent SF Publishing Unit; Going to the Devil with D&D?; Alan Lee: Castles in America; Waldenbooks starts discount chain; A Wake for Timescape; Along Publishers Row (forthcoming books); Japanese Book Reviews, by Y. Kobayashi, S. Maki, E. Lipsett; “French before English” by Pascal J. Thomas; The Micro-World of Danish SF, by Ellen M. Pederson; Report from France; 11th French SF Convention; SF in Japan; 1984 World Fantasy Convention (lots of photos); convention listings; November magazines; November Books; 1984 Locus index.