"From the award-winning pages of Asimov's science fiction magazine"--P. [4] of cover.

Words and music / William Sanders -- Beluthahatchie / Andy Duncan -- Renaissance / Nazncy Kress -- Diduk / Eliot Fintushel -- Pickman's modem / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Thorri the poet's saga / S.N. Dyer and Lucy Kemnitzer -- He-we-await / Howard Waldrop -- The shunned trailer / Esther M. Friesner -- The country doctor / Steven Utley -- The golden keeper / Ian R. MacLeod.