Science Fiction Digest, October-November 1981
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Overview:
- Title: Science Fiction Digest, October-November 1981
- Author: Shawna McCarthy
- Year: 1981
- Publisher: Davis Publications
- Price: $1.50
- Pages: 192
- Binding: digest
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: Swarmer, Skimmer
- Notes:
- "Premiere Issue" stated on the cover, but no issue or volume number indicated inside.
- A price of $1.95 is given in the publisher's statement on the contents page, But $1.50 is on the cover.
- Cover is a color photograph of Isaac Asimov.
- Covers are not included in the page count.
- Asimov's piece is actually two essays which are included in the collection Asimov on Science Fiction. They are individually credited here, but not in the magazine's table of contents.
- Benford's piece is an excerpt from Across the Sea of Suns, but is self-contained, and, as such, was reprinted in Carr's Best of the Year volume. The novel did not appear until 1984.
- Each fiction piece is accompanied by a full page B&W photograph of the author.