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• 4 • Opinion (Amazing Stories, May 1983) • [Opinion (Amazing Stories)] • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 7 •   Review: Retief to the Rescue by Keith Laumer • review by Frank Catalano
• 7 • Book Reviews (Amazing Stories, May 1983) • essay by Frank Catalano and Robert Coulson
• 8 •   Review: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams • review by Frank Catalano
• 8 •   Review: The Stainless Steel Rat for President by Harry Harrison • review by Frank Catalano
• 8 •   Review: Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin • review by Frank Catalano
• 10 •   Review: Lost Moons by Jack Vance • review by Frank Catalano
• 10 •   Review: The Man Who Had No Idea by Thomas M. Disch • review by Frank Catalano
• 10 •   Review: Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison • review by Frank Catalano
• 11 •   Review: The Gernsback Awards Volume 1, 1926 by Forrest J. Ackerman • review by Frank Catalano
• 12 •   Review: A Rose for Armageddon by Hilbert Schenck • review by Robert Coulson
• 12 •   Review: The World of the Dark Crystal by Brian Froud and J. J. Llewellyn • review by Robert Coulson
• 13 •   Review: Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard • review by Robert Coulson
• 13 •   Review: Up to the Sky in Ships by A. Bertram Chandler • review by Robert Coulson
• 13 •   Review: In and Out of Quandry by Lee Hoffman • review by Robert Coulson
• 14 •   Review: King of the Wood by John Maddox Roberts • review by Robert Coulson
• 14 •   Review: The Pirates of Rosinante by Alexis A. Gilliland • review by Robert Coulson
• 14 •   Review: Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf by Gene DeWeese • review by Robert Coulson
• 14 •   Review: Fear Itself by Chuck Miller and Tim Underwood • review by Robert Coulson
• 14 •   Review: The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree • review by Robert Coulson
• 15 •   Review: The Harp and the Blade by John Myers Myers • review by Robert Coulson
• 16 • Discussions (Amazing Stories, May 1983) • [Discussions (Amazing Stories)] • essay by The Editor
• 24 • Aquila: The Final Conflict • [Aquila] • novella by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
• 24 •  Aquila: The Final Conflict • interior artwork by Frank Kelly Freas
• 62 •  Cartoon: "I'll bet he knows what the meaning of life is!" • interior artwork by Alexis A. Gilliland and William Rotsler [as by Alexis Gilliland and William Rotsler]
• 63 • The Incompleat Strategist: 2 • essay by John M. Ford
• 63 •  The Incompleat Strategist: 2 • interior artwork by George Barr
• 67 • Operator Assisted Calls Are Charged at a Higher Rate • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 69 •  Operator Assisted Calls Are Charged at a Higher Rate • interior artwork by Karl Kofoed
• 79 • Four Wolves • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 79 •  Four Wolves • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 85 • Adequate Response • short story by J. Michael Matuszewicz
• 85 •  Adequate Response • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 94 • Wong's Lost and Found Emporium • short story by William F. Wu
• 94 •  Wong's Lost and Found Emporium • interior artwork by Douglas Chaffee
• 107 • To an Unknown Copy Editor • poem by Thomas M. Disch [as by Tom Disch]
• 108 • Against Infinity (Part 2 of 2) • [Jupiter Project • 2] • serial by Gregory Benford
• 108 •  Against Infinity (Part 2 of 2) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
• 161 • Cyborg Sadie • poem by Robert Frazier
• 162 • The Observatory (Amazing Stories, May 1983) • [Editorial (Amazing Stories)] • essay by Mark J. Rostien