Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact, Fall 1980, Vol. 2, No. 4
By: Edited by James Baen
Series: Destinies: The Paperback Magazine Of Science Fiction And Speculative Fact
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: November 1980
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780441143030
Copyright date: 1980
Table of contents: title: Fiction; title: Novelets; label: Hidden Variable. By Charles Sheffield
title: 47; label: Gone Past. By Richard Wilson
title: 168; label: The Automatic Rifleman. By David Drake
title: 226; title: Short Stories; label: Recessional. By Fred Saberhagen
title: 6; label: Pick An Orifice. By Gregory Benford
title: 82; title: Speculative Fact; label: New Beginnings. (The Insurmountable Opportunity: The most important single step that could be taken to ensure the survival of the human race would be to establish a colony on the moon.) By J. E. Pournelle
title: 27; label: The Day the Sky Burned. (Sometime during the next five to ten years one or 'both major powers will possess energy weapons capable of gutting ICBMs like so many trout. The Soviets will definitely have them.) By G. Harry Stine
title: 91; label: On Predicting the Future. (The Wizard Wars: Fred doesn't believe a word of it.) By Frederik Pohl
title: 113; label: Peace From On High. (Another reason for Space. Perhaps the best one of all.) By Joe Haldeman
title: 133; label: Nuclear Survival. (Living Under Pressure: You're downwind from a nuclear strike. You've got four hours to rig a fallout shelter. GO! (Those who don't believe in Russians may replace "nuclear strike" with "reactor blow-out." The odds against the latter event are astronomical-but... you'll be prepared for the strike.) By Dean Ing
title: 147; label: On Books. (What distinguishes science fantasy from science fiction is the bunk.) By Norman Spinrad
title: 213; label: Expanded Universe, Part I I. (The Happy Days Ahead: Where we are, where we're going, and what to do about it. (Nobody said it would be easy.)) By Robert A. Heinlein
title: 252