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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 12, December 1988

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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 12, December 1988

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CONTENTSNovelettes"Dowser" by Orson Scott Card"The House on Cemetery Street" by Cherry Wilder"Deus Ex Machina" by Lisa MasonShort Stories"A Midwinter's Tale" by Michael Swanwick"Lady with Teddy Bear" by R. V. Branham"The Way It Sometimes Happens" by Lucius Shepard"Winter Solstice" by Dean Whitlock"Wake-Up Call" by Esther M. FriesnerPoetry"A Letter from Polar Mars" by Robert Frazier"Lepidopteran" by James Patrick Kelly"Damage Report: Dallas Hexahedron" by Robert FrazierDepartments"Editorial: Contemporaries" by Isaac Asimov"Letters""Gaming" by Matthew J. Costello"On Books" by Baird Searles"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. StraussIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1988, Vol. 12, No. 12 (Whole No. 137)Gardner R. Dozois, editorCover art by Terry Lee

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Length 180 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Davis Publications
Released December 1, 1988
Identifier (ISBN) 18662991
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