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Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: November-December 1978.
1978

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Roger Zelazny. Stand Pat, Ruby Stone. 1978
• Gregory Benford. Old Woman By the Road. 1978
• Larry Niven. Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!. 1978
• Charles Sheffield. Transition Team. 1978
• Spider Robinson. Antimony. 1978
[error, manuscript title was "Antinomy"]
• Clifford D. Simak. Party Line. 1978
• Dean Ing. Very Proper Charlies. 1978
• Jerry Pournelle. If Only We Could Start Over - New Beginnings. 1978
• Poul Anderson. Reality, Fiction, and Points Between. 1978

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: April-June 1979.
1979

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Joe Haldeman. The Pilot. 1979
• Stephen Kimmel. Computerized Fireflies. 1979
• Dean Ing. Fleas. 1979
• Stephen Leigh. Encounter. 1979
• Eric Vinicoff, Marcia Martin. Malthus' Last Laugh. 1979
• Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle. Spirals. 1979
• Richard Wilson. The Story Writer. 1979
• The Plot (editorial). 1979
• Jerry Pournelle. How to Become a Space Colonist. 1979
• G. Harry Stine. Defending the Third Industrial Revolution. 1979
• Poul Anderson. On Imaginary Science. 1979

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: August-September 1979.
1979

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Frank Herbert. Frogs and Scientists. 1979
• Dean Ing. Liquid Assets. 1979
• Orson Scott Card. But We Try Not To Act Like It. 1979
• Charles Sheffield. Skystalk. 1979
• Fred Saberhagen. Some Events at the Templar Radiant. 1979
• Charles Sheffield. How to Build a Beanstalk. 1979
• Jerry Pournelle. The Limits to Knowledge. 1979
• Alcestis R. Oberg. The L-5 Review #1. 1979
• Dean Ing. Vehicles for Future Wars. 1979
• Poul Anderson. The Science Fiction in Science. 1979

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: January-February 1979.
1979

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Robert Sheckley. Good-By Forever To Mr. Pain. 1979
• Dean Ing. Domino Domine. 1979
• Joseph L. Green, Patrice Milton. The Speckled Gantry. 1979
• Ben Bova. To Be or Not To Be. 1979
• Gregory Benford. Time Guide. 1979
• Larry Niven. The Schumann Computer. 1979
• Poul Anderson. The Ways of Love. 1979
• Orson Scott Card. Second Chance. 1979
• David Drake. Cultural Conflict. 1979
• Frederik Pohl. Good-By To All That. 1979
• Jerry Pournelle. Comes the Revolution, Comrades. 1979
• G. Harry Stine. Why Go Into Space?. 1979
• B. D. Wyatt. The Galactic Drift. 1979
• Poul Anderson. The Hardness of Hard Science Fiction. 1979
• Robert W Prehoda. Malthusian Crisis and Methuselah's Children. 1979

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: October-December 1979.
1979

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Roger Zelazny. Go Starless in the Night. 1979
• Frank Herbert. Feathered Pigs. 1979
• Jack C. Haldeman II. What Kind of Love is This?. 1979
• Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Three Aliens. 1979
• David Drake. The Predators. 1979
• James P. Hogan. Silver Shoes for a Princess. 1979
The first, and best, part of the expanded Star Child
• Jerry Pournelle. Jove!. 1979
• G. Harry Stine. The Stars Are Waiting. 1979
• Editors of L-5 News. The L-5 Review #2. 1979
• James Edwin Gunn. The Immortals: From Print to Film and Back Again. 1979
• Poul Anderson. Science Fiction and Reason. 1979

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: Fall 1980.
1980

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Charles Sheffield. Hidden Variable. 1980
• Richard Wilson. Gone Past. 1980
• David Drake. The Automatic Rifleman. 1980
• Fred Saberhagen. Recessional. 1980
• Gregory Benford. Pick an Orifice. 1980
• Jerry Pournelle. The Insurmountable Opportunity. 1980
• G. Harry Stine. The Day the Sky Burned. 1980
• Frederik Pohl. The Wizard Wars. 1980
• Joe Haldeman. Peace from On High. 1980
• Dean Ing. Living Under Pressure. 1980

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: February-March 1980.
1980

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Gordon R. Dickson. Lost Dorsai. 1980
• David Drake. Underground. 1980
• Larry Niven. The Green Marauder. 1980
• Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Judo and the Art of Self Government. 1980
• Ian Watson. Insight. 1980
• Kevin Christensen. A Dragon in the Man. 1980
• Steve Rasnic Tem. Forward. 1980
• Frederik Pohl. Looking for the Starbow. 1980
• Sandra Miesel. The Plume and the Sword - Gordon R Dickson. 1980
• Jay Kay Klein. The Dorsai Irregulars. 1980
• Jerry Pournelle. The Brains Keep Coming. 1980
• Editors of L-5 News. The L-5 Review #3. 1980
• Viking Fund. Message from Mars. 1980
• G. Harry Stine. Faster than Light. 1980

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: Spring 1980.
1980

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Kevin Christensen. Bellerophon. 1980
• Dean Ing. Why Must They All Have My Face?. 1980
• Joan D. Vinge. Voices from the Dust. 1980
• Sandra Koester. Science with Dick and Jane. 1980
• Joe Haldeman. Four in One. 1980
• Jerry Pournelle. The Proper Study of Mankind. 1980
• Norman Spinrad. The Taming of the Bear. 1980
• Charles Sheffield. Getting About in Space. 1980
• Frederik Pohl. Sweetie. 1980
• G. Harry Stine. Locksley Hall, 2050 AD. 1980
• James Edwin Gunn. The City and the Critics. 1980
• Editors of L-5 News. The L-5 Review #4. 1980
• Robert A. Heinlein. Expanded Universe Forward. 1980

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: Summer 1980.
1980

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Dean Ing. Vital Signs. 1980
• Charles Sheffield. The Man Who Stole the Moon. 1980
• Larry Niven, Steven Barnes. Retrospective. 1980
• G. E. Coggshall. Frankie the Rat and the Baron von Ronk. 1980
• Spider Robinson. Robert A Heinlein - A Sermon. 1980
• Dean Ing. Gimme Shelter!. 1980
• Jerry Pournelle. About those Brass Brassieres. 1980
• Editors of L-5 News. The L-5 Review #5. 1980
• Frederik Pohl. Shaking up Space. 1980

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies.
1981

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Charles Sheffield. Summertide. 1981
• David Drake. Time Safari. 1981
• David Langford. Sacrifice. 1981
• Gregory Benford. Slices. 1981
• Fred Saberhagen. Where Thy Treasure Is. 1981
• Charles Sheffield, Yoji Kondo. Looking About in Space. 1981
• Dean Ing. Stocking Your Tenacity Chest. 1981
• Karl Pflock. Waste Not, Want Not. 1981
• Frederik Pohl. Programming the Future. 1981
• Poul Anderson. Ramblings. 1981

Jim Baen, ed.
Destinies: Winter 1981.
1981

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• David Drake. Travellers. 1981
• Gregory Benford. Shall We Take a Little Walk?. 1981
• Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Tears for Emily. 1981
• Ian Watson. A Letter from God. 1981
• James Randi. Dear Editor. 1981
• David Langford. The Final Days. 1981
• Richard Sean McEnroe. A Death in Realtime. 1981
• Eric Vinicoff. Dreams Come True. 1981
• Robert Silverberg. Humans as Machines. 1981
• James P. Hogan. Minds, Machines, and Evolution. 1981
(essay) Can machines ever think?
• Elizabeth Anne Hull. Take Me to Your Teacher. 1981
• Frederik Pohl. Crystal Gazing for Fun and Profit. 1981
• Dean Ing. Power and Potties to the People. 1981
• James Edwin Gunn. Understanding Ein. 1981

Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, eds.
Far Frontiers: Summer 1985.
1985

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• John Brunner. Talion. 1985
• Gordon R. Dickson. House of Weapons. 1985
• Ben Bova. Nuclear Autumn. 1985
• Rory Harper. Pertorgypsies. 1985
• Edward P. Hughes. A Cure for Croup. 1985
• Dean Ing. Evileye. 1985
• John Park. The Software Plague. 1985
• Eric L. Davin. Avenging Angel. 1985
• Robert W. Bussard. Iris, Vega and Intelligent Life in the Galaxy. 1985
• G. Harry Stine. Cheap Shots. 1985

Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, eds.
Far Frontiers: Fall 1985.
1985

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Vernor Vinge. The Ungoverned. 1985
• Rivka Jacobs. Morning on Venus. 1984
• Alexander Jablokov. A Wink in the Eye of the Wolf. 1985
• John Dalmas. Out of the North a Giant. 1982
• David Drake. The Bond. 1985
• Thomas Wylde. Space Shuttle Crashes!. 1984
• Charles R. Pellegrino. The Ultimate Whodunit. 1985
• John Gribbin. Right-Angle Realities. 1985
• Charles Sheffield. Space Talking. 1985

Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, eds.
Far Frontiers: Winter 1985.
Baen Books. 1986

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• F. Paul Wilson. Dydeetown Girl. 1986
• John Dalmas. Opening Move on Egil's World. 1986
• Roland J. Green. The Leading Edge. 1986
• Terry Rich Hartley. Shark Destiny. 1986
• Ronald Anthony Cross. Golden Dawn. 1986
• S. M. Stirling. Cops and Robbers. 1986
• James Benford. Star Wars is not Mad. 1986
• Gregory Benford. Reactionary Utopias. 1986
• C. J. Cherryh. The Prince. 1986

Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, eds.
Far Frontiers: Spring 1986.
1986

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• John Dalmas. A Lion to the Sea. 1986
• Charles Sheffield. Space Transportation. 1986
• Gregory Benford. Dancing with the Straw Man. 1986
• Edward A. Byers. The High Reach. 1986
• Keith Laumer. There is a Tide. 1986
• G. Harry Stine. Escape from Planet Earth. 1986
• G. Harry Stine. The Space Beat. 1986
• David Drake. Ranks of Bronze. 1975
• Lois McMaster Bujold. Aftermaths. 1986

Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, eds.
Far Frontiers: Fall 1986.
Baen Books. 1986

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Roland J. Green. The Leading Edge. 1986
• David Drake. The Tank Lords. 1986
• John Gribbin. The Naked Chimp. 1986
• Dave Smeds. Tournament. 1986
• Charles Sheffield. New Worlds for Old. 1986
• John Dalmas. A Field to Play on. 1986
• Elaine Radford. En Route. 1986
• G. Harry Stine. The Space Beat. 1986
• G. Harry Stine. In the Wake of the Challenger. 1986
• Janet Morris, David Drake. The Great Beer Shortage. 1986

Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, eds.
Far Frontiers: Winter 1986.
1986

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Charles Sheffield. On Timeline Singularities, Space, and Human History. 1986
• Poul Anderson. Iron (part 1). 1986
• Ralph Roberts. Lord Rifkin's Risk. 1986
• Phillip C. Jennings. Teddy Bug and the Hot Purple Snowball. 1986
• Timothy Zahn. Guardian Angel. 1986
• John Gribbin. Timewarps Revisited. 1986
• Robert Reed. The Armistice. 1986
• Roland J. Green. The Leading Edge. 1986
• G. Harry Stine. America: A Second-Class Space Power. 1986
• Roger MacBride Allen. Winged Mysteries - The Soviet Shuttles. 1986
• Roger MacBride Allen. Young As You Feel. 1986

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume I: Spring 1987.
Baen. 1987

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Timothy Zahn. Point Man. 1987
• Robert L. Forward. Magic Matter. 1987
• Poul Anderson. Iron (part 2). 1987
• Joel Rosenberg. Not for Country, Not for King. 1987
• John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin. In Praise of Sociobiology. 1987
• Doug Beason. Lifeguard. 1987
• G. Harry Stine. The Space Beat: How to Stop a Space Program. 1987
• Fred Saberhagen. The Graphic of Dorian Gray. 1987
• Keith Laumer. Rank Injustice. 1987

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume II: Fall 1987.
Baen. 1987

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Roland J. Green. The Leading Edge. 1986
• Charles Sheffield. Running Out. 1987
• Charles Sheffield. Do You Really Want a Bigger U.S. Space Program. 1987
• Charles Sheffield. The Dreaming Spires of Houston. 1987
• Phillip C. Jennings. Moondo Bizarro. 1987
• Gregory Benford. Was Frankenstein Simply Einstein being Frank?. 1987
• Donald Frederick Robertson. The Phobos Race. 1987
• Edward P. Hughes. Test for Tyrants. 1987
• Harry Turtledove. The Irvhank Effect. 1987
• Steven Gould. Poppa was a Catcher. 1987

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume III: Spring 1988.
Baen. 1988

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• The Pure Space Act of 1989. 1988
• Charles Sheffield. Across the Great Divide. 1988
• Larry Niven. Brenda. 1988
• Dean Ing. Cathouse. 1988
• Dafydd ab Hugh. Latoya is Wounded. 1988
• Charles Sheffield. The Winding Road: To Room-temperature Super-conductivity via Absolute Zero. 1988
• Hans Moravec. Harvard doesn't Publish Science Fiction. 1988

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume IV: Summer 1988.
Baen. 1988

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Drugs and the Law. 1988
• Poul Anderson. The Deserter. 1988
• F. Paul Wilson. Wires. 1988
• Evan B. Sayers. Turning of the Wheel. 1988
• Harry Turtledove. Clash of Arms. 1988
• Timothy Zahn. Time Bomb. 1988
• Charles Sheffield. Unclear Winter. 1988
• S. M. Stirling. The Woman Warrior. 1988
• Marc Stiegler. How David's Sling met Hypercard. 1988
• Donald Frederick Robertson. Which Road to Mars. 1988
• Martin von Strasser Caidin. Fiction this Ain't. 1988

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume VI: Winter 1988.
Baen. 1988

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Robert A. Heinlein. The Long Watch. 1949
• Robert A. Heinlein. The Man Who Travelled In Elephants. == The Elephant Circuit. 1959
I always cry when I read this one
• Spider Robinson. Rah Rah R.A.H.!. 1980
• Jerry Pournelle. In Appreciation: Robert A. Heinlein. 1988
• Robert A. Heinlein. Dance Session. 1946
• Robert A. Heinlein. Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long. 1973
• Rick Cook. Robert A. Heinlein and the Coming Age of Space. 1988
• Spider Robinson. Copyright Violation. 1988
He knows the beautiful woman who picks him up in the bar is too good to be true, but he decides nothing could be so bad as to spoil the experience, not even death. But he is wrong.
• Vernor Vinge. The Blabber. 1988
• Charles Sheffield. Counting Up. 1988
• Rick Cook. Megaphone. 1988
• Robert A. Heinlein. More Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long. 1973
• John Moore. Freeze Frame. 1988
• Harry Turtledove. King of All. 1988
• Yoji Kondo, Charles Sheffield. Farewell to the Master. 1988

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume VII: Spring 1989.
Baen. 1989

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Robert A. Heinlein. This I Believe. 1989
RAH's tribute to humanity
• Poul Anderson. Origin. 1989
• Phillip C. Jennings. Isotope. 1989
• Dean Ing. Briar Patch, part I. 1989
• Elizabeth Moon. Welcome to Wheel Days. 1989
• F. Paul Wilson. Kids. 1989
• Charles Sheffield. Classical Nightmares and Quantum Paradoxes. 1989
• John Gribbin. The Reversing Universe. 1989
• Dean Ing. Dialogues in the Zoo. 1989
• Gordon R. Woodcock. Wanted: Pioneers for the Space Frontier. 1989
• Larry Niven. Criticism. 1989
• Algis Budrys. Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. 1989

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume VIII: Fall 1989.
Baen. 1989

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• James P. Hogan. Paint Your Booster: Apollo - What Might Have Been. == Boom and Slump in Space. 1989
Hogan's take on the moon race -- and why the Apollo programme has been such a subsequent disaster for space travel in particular and the US in general. [It was strange reading this so near the 30th anniversary of the first moon landing -- on the one hand getting choked up again watching it all on TV again -- and on the other wondering if Hogan is right about why we are not there still.]
• Anne McCaffrey. If Madam Likes You .... 1989
"Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three."
• S. M. Stirling. Roachstompers. 1989
• Charles Sheffield. Fly Me to the Stars: the Facts and Fictions of Interstellar travel. 1989
• Dean Ing. Briar Patch, part II. 1989
• Lois McMaster Bujold. Allegories of Change: the "New" Biotech in the Eye of Science Fiction. 1989
(essay)
• Kevin J. Anderson. Rest in Peace. 1989
• Robert Reed. Totipotent. 1989
• Dafydd ab Hugh. Those Greyout Blues. 1989
• Poul Anderson. Statesmen. 1989
If you could use AI to recreate famous figures from the past, who would you bring back to help you fight a war?
• David Drake. The End of the Hunt. 1989

Jim Baen, ed.
New Destinies : Volume IX: Fall 1990.
Baen. 1990

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Elizabeth Moon. Risks of Memory. 1990
• Michael Flynn. Werehouse. 1990
• Kevin O'Donnell Jr. The Important Things in Life. 1990
• T. W. Knowles. Curtain Call. 1990
• Charles Sheffield. Thematic Aberration. 1990
• John J. Ordover. Thus I Refute Kafka. 1990
• John Dalmas. Tiger Hunt. 1990
• John Gribbin. Defense Initiative. 1990
• Jerry Pournelle. Another Step Farther Out. == Annual Report on the State of the Sciences 1990. 1990
• Poul Anderson. Neptune Diary. 1990
(essay) An account of a week spent at JPL during the Voyager fly-by of Neptune in August 1989.
• Keith Henson. The Potentials of Nanotechnology. 1990
• Charles Sheffield. The Unlicked Bear-Whelp. 1990
• Mark L. Van Name. 2001: The Personal Computer. 1990
• S. M. Stirling. Fusion. 1990
• Marc Stiegler. The B-2 Lottery (guest editorial). 1990

Jim Baen, ed.
Worlds of If: March-April 1974.
Tandem. 1974

Contents

• James H. Schmitz. One Step Ahead. 1974
The Programmed Corps have been designed to fight the alien Skander. But the League itself has many internal rivalries, each wanting to hijack the Corps to its own ends. So there is a lot of security protecting the soldiers. But there's always someone one step ahead.
• Raymond F. Jones. The Touch of Your Hand. 1974
• Lester del Rey. Haphaestus Plague: the Reading Room. 1974
• Edward Wellen. Tar Baby. 1974
• Fred Saberhagen. Wings out of Shadow. 1974
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Training Twofoots. 1974
• James A Roszell. The Iceman. 1974
• Randall Garrett. Pride and Primacy. 1974
• Lynda Isaacs. Transit. 1974