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Destinies : the paperback magazine of science fiction and speculative fact : premier issue, November-December 1978 / edited by James Patrick Baen

by Jim Baen

This paperback magazine series, published in eight issues between 1987 and 1990, resurrected the format of the earlier speculative fiction anthology Destinies.

Accession 15195 ISBN — Publisher Ace Books, Inc.
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