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Playboy [v26 #3, March 1979] ($2.00, 250pp, quarto) []

96 · Good as Gold [Part 1 of 2] · Joseph Heller · n.

130 · All the Birds Come Home to Roost · Harlan Ellison · ss

153 · Una’s Lock · [uncredited] · pm ca. 1806
an Irish popular song first published in The Giblet Pye, circa 1806.

Playboy [v26 #4, April 1979] ($2.00, 282pp+, quarto) []

146 · Good as Gold [Part 2 of 2] · Joseph Heller · n.

169 · Four Offensive Verses · Tom Brown · pm 1700
from A Collection of Miscellany Poems, London 1700.

Playboy [v26 #5, May 1979] ($2.00, 294pp+, quarto) []

110 · White Lies · Paul Theroux · ss

174 · Lady Chastity’s Last Stand · Philip Cioffari · ss Playboy April 1971

179 · A True Account of a Swearing Doctor’s Marriage · Tom Brown · vi 1693

Playboy [v26 #6, June 1979] ($2.00, 306pp+, quarto) []
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124 · Cruel Shoes · Steve Martin · ex Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1977

164 · A Bay Change · Elliott Arnold · ss

181 · What Women Owe to Tortoise · adapted by Don Cosentino · vi
a traditional Yoruba folk tale from Nigeria.

Playboy [v26 #7, July 1979] ($2.00, 250pp, quarto) []
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· Playbill · [uncredited] · bg

· The World of Playboy · [uncredited] · cl

· Dear Playboy · The Readers · lc

· Playboy After Hours · John Blumenthal · cl

· The Playboy Advisor · [uncredited] · qa

· The Playboy Forum · The Readers · lc

· Playboy Interview: Joseph Wambaugh · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Joseph Wambaugh]

· The Making of a Pope · Andrew M. Greeley · ar

· The Perfect Heigh or The Quest of Gimmesome Roy · Shel Silverstein · ss

· Well Watched · [uncredited] · pi

· The Leaser of Two Evils · Philip José Farmer · ss

· Looking Shipshape! · David Platt · ar

· Blood Sisters · Joe Haldeman · nv

· Shear Wonder—Playboy’s Playmate of the Month · Richard Fegley · pi

· Where Sex Is Concerned, the Doctor Is Out · Morton Hunt · ar

· The Second Annual Managers’ Cash-on-Line, Clutch-Player All-Star Team · Terry Catchpole · ar

· Moonraker: New Perils for 007 · [uncredited] · pi

· Ribald Classic: The Baker of Yesilkoy · Charles Wallach · ss
from a Traditionnal Turkish Tale, Circa 1560.

· The Secret Life of Baseball · Maury Z. Levy & Samantha Stevenson · ar

· Playbikes · James Petersen · ar

· Funnies · Various · cs

· Playboys’s Pipeline · Theodore Fischer, Tom Passavant, Walter Salm & John Rezek · cl

· Playboy Potpourri · [uncredited] · ar

· Playboy on the Scene · [uncredited] · cl

· Playboy’s Roving Eye—More Pictures of the German Edition of Playboy—or, We Leica Those a Lot · [uncredited] · pi

· Sex News · [uncredited] · cl

Playboy [v26 #8, August 1979] ($2.00, 250pp+, quarto) []

134 · The Top of the Hill [Part 1 of 3] · Irwin Shaw · ex Delacorte Press, 1979

Playboy [v26 #9, September 1979] ($2.50, 286pp+, quarto) []

148 · The Top of the Hill [Part 2 of 3] · Irwin Shaw · ex Delacorte Press, 1979

175 · The Goldsmith’s Wife · [uncredited] · vi 1758
from A New Atlantis for the Year 1758, printed by M. Thrush, Fleet Street, London.

Playboy [v26 #10, October 1979] ($2.50, quarto) []
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· The Top of the Hill [Part 3 of 3] · Irwin Shaw · ex Delacorte Press, 1979

· Snake Head · Lynda Leidiger · ss

· The Fierce Machine · John Cleland · vi (r)

Playboy [v26 #11, November 1979] (quarto) []
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124 · Jambeaux · Laurence Gonzales · ex Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

Playboy [v26 #12, December 1979] (quarto) []
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· The Holy Land · John Updike · ss

· Used in Evidence · Frederick Forsyth · ss

Playboy [v27 #1, January 1980] ($3.00, 334pp+, quarto) []

132 · My Uncle Oswald · Roald Dahl · ex Michael Joseph, October 1979

150 · In Bed One Night · Robert Coover · vi

207 · Smiley’s People [George Smiley] · John le Carré · ex Hodder & Stoughton, 1979

Playboy [v27 #2, February 1980] (quarto) []
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124 · Who’s on First? [Blackford Oakes] · William F. Buckley, Jr. · ex Doubleday, 1980

132 · Paintin’ Her Fingernails · Shel Silverstein · pm

Playboy [v27 #3, March 1980] (quarto) []
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115 · Uncle Don · Shel Silverstein · pm

141 · A Cup of Coffee with the Cardinals · A. W. Landwehr · ss

Playboy [v27 #4, April 1980] (quarto) []
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163 · Screwballs · Jay Cronley · ss

Playboy [v27 #5, May 1980] (quarto) []
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140 · Papageno · Asa Baber · ss

Playboy [v27 #6, June 1980] (quarto) []
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124 · Seymour · Mordecai Richler · ss

Playboy [v27 #7, July 1980] (quarto) []
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96 · The Apotheosis of Myra · Walter Tevis · nv

Playboy [v27 #8, August 1980] (quarto) []
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104 · Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones · Erica Jong · ss

Playboy [v27 #9, September 1980] (quarto) []
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108 · Still Life with Woodpecker · Tom Robbins · ex

Playboy [v27 #10, October 1980] (quarto) []
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86 · Loon Lake · E. L. Doctorow · ex Random House, September 1980

Playboy [v27 #11, November 1980] (quarto) []
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143 · Rat Town Boogie · Andy Stone · ss

168 · California C’s · Shel Silverstein · pm

Playboy [v27 #12, December 1980] (quarto) []
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140 · Frozen Journey · Philip K. Dick · ss

168 · May I Have Some Marmalade, Please? · Sean O’Faolain · ss

200 · Tales of the Animal Crime Squad · Thomas Berger · ss

202 · Playboy’s Christmas Cards · Tom Koch · pm

Playboy [v28 #1, January 1981] (quarto) []
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130 · God Emperor of Dune [Dune] · Frank Herbert · n. Putnam, 1981; abridged.

146 · Heart Transplant · Ray Bradbury · ss

150 · Why We Crave Horror Movies · Stephen King · ar

Playboy [v28 #2, February 1981] (quarto) []
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104 · Ask a Silly Question [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v28 #3, March 1981] (quarto) []
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98 · The French Lesson · Asa Baber · ss

Playboy [v28 #4, April 1981] (quarto) []
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126 · Zuckerman Unbound · Philip Roth · ss

Playboy [v28 #5, May 1981] (quarto) []
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108 · Good Rockin’ Tonight · William Hauptman · nv

Playboy [v28 #6, June 1981] (quarto) []
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128 · The New Tattoo · Robert Cole · ss

136 · Anna · Andre Dubus · ss

182 · A Change in the Weather · Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann · vi

Playboy [v28 #7, July 1981] (quarto) []
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143 · Ben Osczhio · Walter Lowe, Jr. · ss

Playboy [v28 #8, August 1981] (quarto) []
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118 · Reinhart’s Women · Thomas Berger · ss

Playboy [v28 #9, September 1981] (quarto) []
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110 · Rabbit Is Rich · John Updike · ex Knopf, 1981

Playboy [v28 #10, October 1981] (quarto) []
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130 · A Flag for Sunrise · Robert Stone · ex Knopf, 1981

Playboy [v28 #11, November 1981] (quarto) []
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162 · Heat [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · ex Viking, 1981

Playboy [v28 #12, December 1981] (quarto) []
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175 · The Adventurer · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

196 · The Sunken Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

204 · Playboy’s Christmas Cards · Tom Koch · pm

Playboy [v29 #1, January 1982] (quarto) []
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102 · Killing · John Updike · ss

126 · Blue Cadillac · Michael Malone · ss

180 · In Praise of Older Women · Thomas M. Disch · ss

Playboy [v29 #2, February 1982] (quarto) []
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72 · Gianni · Robert Silverberg · ss

Playboy [v29 #3, March 1982] (quarto) []
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112 · Pinball · Jerzy Kosinski · ex Bantam, 1982

134 · My Mistress · Laurie Colwin · ss

Playboy [v29 #4, April 1982] ($2.50, 258pp+, quarto) []

100 · What Do Women Want? · Dan Greenburg · ss

110 · One for the Road · Gardner Dozois · ss

157 · The Optical Illusion · Jean de la Fontaine; adapted by Jem Buller · pm
from Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 1665.

Playboy [v29 #5, May 1982] ($2.50, 266pp+, quarto) []

112 · Poppa Superdude · John Clayton · ss

146 · Interstellar Pigeon · Donald E. Westlake · ss

173 · One Good Eye · Voltaire; adapted by Charles Malot · vi

Playboy [v29 #6, June 1982] (quarto) []
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116 · To the Letter, Harry · James McClure · nv

170 · Lee and Me at the Open · Kevin Cook · ss

Playboy [v29 #7, July 1982] (quarto) []
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116 · Lord Short Shoe Wants the Monkey · Bob Shacochis · ss

Playboy [v29 #8, August 1982] (quarto) []
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100 · At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party · Robert Silverberg · ss

Playboy [v29 #9, September 1982] (quarto) []
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90 · 2010: Odyssey Two [Space Odyssey] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex Granada, 1982

102 · The Telethon · Stanley Elkin · ss

Playboy [v29 #10, October 1982] (quarto) []
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88 · Space · James Michener · ex Random House, 1982

142 · Daphne’s Tune · François Camoin · ss

Playboy [v29 #11, November 1982] (quarto) []
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96 · George Mills · Stanley Elkin · ex Pressworks Publishing, 1981

119 · The Second Coming · Mitch Sisskind · ss

Playboy [v29 #12, December 1982] (quarto) []
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146 · Adults · George V. Higgins · ss

156 · 2010: Odyssey Two [Space Odyssey] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex Granada, 1982

172 · Sex and Its Substitutes · Paul Theroux · ss

198 · Playboy’s Christmas Cards · Tom Koch · pm

Playboy [v30 #1, January 1983] (quarto) []
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· Like a Leaf · Thomas McGuane · ss

· Why Heisherik Was Born · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss

· The Word Processor · Stephen King · ss

Playboy [v30 #2, February 1983] (quarto) []
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94 · The Delta Star · Joseph Wambaugh · ex Morrow, 1983

Playboy [v30 #3, March 1983] (quarto) []
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· The Little Drummer Girl · John le Carré · ex Hodder & Stoughton, 1983

Playboy [v30 #4, April 1983] (quarto) []
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78 · Ancient Evenings [Part 1 of 2] · Norman Mailer · ex

Playboy [v30 #5, May 1983] (quarto) []
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100 · Ancient Evenings [Part 2 of 2] · Norman Mailer · ex

Playboy [v30 #6, June 1983] (quarto) []
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65 · Playboy Interview: Stephen King · Eric Norden · iv [Ref. Stephen King]

94 · Beyond Jedi: The Saga Continues · Dennis Snee · hu

120 · Needle in a Timestack · Robert Silverberg · ss

Playboy [v30 #7, July 1983] (quarto) []
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82 · Heaven Help Us · Donald E. Westlake · ss

96 · Norman’s Date · Amiri Baraka · ss

Playboy [v30 #8, August 1983] (quarto) []
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70 · Mundo’s Sign · Bob Shacochis · ss

118 · The Personal Touch · Chet Williamson · vi

Playboy [v30 #9, September 1983] (quarto) []
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112 · No Trade · James Howard Kunstler · ss

Playboy [v30 #10, October 1983] (quarto) []
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84 · Quantrill and the Goldfish · Reg Potterton · ss

Playboy [v30 #11, November 1983] (quarto) []
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132 · Glory, Glory · John Morressy · ss

Playboy [v30 #12, December 1983] (quarto) []
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126 · Devlin’s Wake · George V. Higgins · ss

145 · Remnants · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss

146 · Playboy’s Christmas Cards · Tom Koch · pm

190 · Don’t You Know There’s a War On? · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v31 #1, January 1984] (quarto) []
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90 · The Trail of Your Blood on the Snow · Gabriel García Márquez · ss

122 · The Idea Killers · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ar

152 · The Toynbee Convector · Ray Bradbury · ss

162 · Cunts · John Updike · pm

208 · A Guide for Prospective Husbands · Anton Chekhov · ss

Playboy [v31 #2, February 1984] (quarto) []
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62 · Forky · Andre Dubus, III · ss

98 · The Dancing Bears · Asa Baber · ss

Playboy [v31 #3, March 1984] (quarto) []
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114 · The 16th Summer of Daq Jaddarra · Lenny Kleinfeld · ss

Playboy [v31 #4, April 1984] (quarto) []
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116 · The Devil and Doodazzle Dakins · Walter Lowe, Jr. · ss

Playboy [v31 #5, May 1984] (quarto) []
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92 · The Witches of Eastwick [Eastwick] · John Updike · ex Knopf, 1984

Playboy [v31 #6, June 1984] (quarto) []
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88 · The Affair · Robert Silverberg · ss

Playboy [v31 #7, July 1984] (quarto) []
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68 · By the Numbers! · Ray Bradbury · ss

110 · The World’s a Stage · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v31 #8, August 1984] (quarto) []
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88 · The Time Exchange · Damon Knight · vi

112 · By the Dawn’s Early Light [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv

Playboy [v31 #9, September 1984] (quarto) []
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· Julius Caesar and the Werewolf · John Gardner · ss

Playboy [v31 #10, October 1984] (quarto) []
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94 · A Gift of the Gods · Gahan Wilson · ss

122 · A Good Story · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v31 #11, November 1984] (quarto) []
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98 · Life Its Ownself · Dan Jenkins · ss

Playboy [v31 #12, December 1984] (quarto) []
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112 · The Sicilian [Michael Corleone] · Mario Puzo · ex Linden Press, 1984

130 · Tourist Trade · Robert Silverberg · nv

160 · And All Through the House [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · ss

180 · Playboy’s Christmas Cards · Tom Koch · pm

Playboy [v32 #1, January 1985] (quarto) []
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122 · You Must Remember This · Robert Coover · nv

154 · Glitz · Elmore Leonard · ex

162 · One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! · Ray Bradbury · ss

Playboy [v32 #2, February 1985] (quarto) []
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60 · Easy in the Islands · Bob Shacochis · nv

72 · The Saved · Frederik Pohl · ss

Playboy [v32 #3, March 1985] (quarto) []
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84 · Mother’s Day · George V. Higgins · ss; illustrated by Mel Odom

116 · The Lonely Silver Rain [Travis McGee] · John D. MacDonald · ex Knopf, 1985

Playboy [v32 #4, April 1985] (quarto) []
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88 · Even Charles Atlas Dies · Sergio Ramírez · ss

Playboy [v32 #5, May 1985] (quarto) []
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88 · More Than the Sum of His Parts · Joe Haldeman · nv

120 · Scoring · Jay Cronley · ss

Playboy [v32 #6, June 1985] (quarto) []
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90 · Symbiont · Robert Silverberg · nv

Playboy [v32 #7, July 1985] (quarto) []
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88 · Heirs of the Perisphere · Howard Waldrop · ss

94 · Breathe Deep · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v32 #8, August 1985] (quarto) []
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82 · The Clowns · Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann & Susan Casper · ss

Playboy [v32 #9, September 1985] (quarto) []
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74 · I’m Dick Felder! · Jerry Stahl · ss

116 · Point of View · Damon Knight · vi

Playboy [v32 #10, October 1985] (quarto) []
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100 · Children of Light · Robert Stone · ss

110 · Sportsmen · Thomas McGuane · ss

Playboy [v32 #11, November 1985] (quarto) []
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88 · The Black Wench · Ray Russell · ss

112 · Getting the Message · Peter Nelson · ss

Playboy [v32 #12, December 1985] (quarto) []
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· Tough · Lillian Ross · ss

· A Christmas Fantasy · Paul Theroux · ss

· Hitch Your Spaceship to a Star · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v33 #1, January 1986] (quarto) []
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78 · Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness · Gabriel García Márquez · ss

112 · Killer · Ken Kesey · ss

144 · The Universal Karmic Clearing House · Robert Sheckley · ss

Playboy [v33 #2, February 1986] (quarto) []
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74 · Your Most Profound Skin · Julio Cortázar · ss

100 · Fire Zone Emerald · Lucius Shepard · nv

Playboy [v33 #3, March 1986] (quarto) []
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58 · The Devil Is Real · George V. Higgins · ss

100 · The Lockup Book · Greg Donaldson · ss

Playboy [v33 #4, April 1986] (quarto) []
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98 · The Middle Man · Bharati Mukherjee · ss

Playboy [v33 #5, May 1986] (quarto) []
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68 · Laugh, Clone, Laugh · John Morressy · ss

110 · Midnight at the Oasis · Tom McNeal · ss

Playboy [v33 #6, June 1986] (quarto) []
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70 · Horse Laugh [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · nv

Playboy [v33 #7, July 1986] (quarto) []
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49 · Playboy Interview: Arthur C. Clarke · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Arthur C. Clarke]

68 · Finnegan’s Waikiki · Jerry Stahl · ss

Playboy [v33 #8, August 1986] (quarto) []
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84 · An Element of Surprise · Warren Murphy · nv Murder in Manhattan by The Adams Round Table, Morrow, 1986

102 · The Spanish Inquisition · Dan Thrapp · ss

Playboy [v33 #9, September 1986] (quarto) []
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80 · Prizzi’s Family · Richard Condon · ex

110 · Hush Puppies: Or, How One Man Stilled the Sound and the Furry · Stephen Randall · ss

Playboy [v33 #10, October 1986] (quarto) []
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76 · Night Vision · Philip Simmons · ss; college fiction contest winner.

Playboy [v33 #11, November 1986] (quarto) []
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88 · The Professional Soldier · Francisco Goldman · ss

Playboy [v33 #12, December 1986] (quarto) []
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88 · Partners · Thomas McGuane · ss

100 · Blindsight · Robert Silverberg · nv

122 · Earth Station Charley · Billy Crystal · ss

140 · Bandits · Elmore Leonard · ex

Playboy [v34 #1, January 1987] (quarto) []
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96 · Questions · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

122 · The Bookseller · Roald Dahl · nv

130 · Beautiful Husbands · John Updike · ss

Playboy [v34 #2, February 1987] (quarto) []
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74 · Intermission · Robert Coover · ss

82 · The Last Route · D. Keith Mano · ss

Playboy [v34 #3, March 1987] (quarto) []
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96 · Herpes and the Chaplain · Lew Steiger · ss

116 · Getting Enough · Chet Williamson · ss

Playboy [v34 #4, April 1987] (quarto) []
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88 · Intentional Pass · George V. Higgins · ss

108 · The Little Blue Pill · Michael Lubow · ss

Playboy [v34 #5, May 1987] (quarto) []
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82 · Texasville · Larry McMurtry · ss

Playboy [v34 #6, June 1987] (quarto) []
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60 · The Pardoner’s Tale · Robert Silverberg · nv

70 · The Egret · Michael Bishop · ss

Playboy [v34 #7, July 1987] (quarto) []
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90 · The Weather’s Fine · Harry Turtledove · ss

108 · Restraint · Frederick Barthelme · ss

Playboy [v34 #8, August 1987] (quarto) []
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80 · Sen Yen Babbo & the Heavenly Host · Chet Williamson · ss

Playboy [v34 #9, September 1987] (quarto) []
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94 · The Rules of Attraction · Bret Easton Ellis · ss

Playboy [v34 #10, October 1987] (quarto) []
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98 · In Love with Rachel · Steven Ploetz · ss; college fiction contest winner.

Playboy [v34 #11, November 1987] (quarto) []
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102 · Glimmer, Glimmer · George Alec Effinger · ss

Playboy [v34 #12, December 1987] (quarto) []
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76 · The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair · Ray Bradbury · ss

104 · Tricks [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · ex Arbor House, 1987

144 · Yossarian Survives · Joseph Heller · ss

Playboy [v35 #1, January 1988] (quarto) []
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74 · The Surgeon · Roald Dahl · nv

86 · The Sixties: A Reappraisal Part One: Good Riddance · David Horowitz & Peter Collier · es

88 · The Sixties: A Reappraisal Part Two: Hail the Light · Harlan Ellison · ar

100 · Krazy Kat · Jay Cantor · ss

126 · The Curse · Andre Dubus · ss

Playboy [v35 #2, February 1988] (quarto) []
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64 · An Ancient Affair · Aaron Abbey · ss

78 · Waiting for the Night Flight · David Michael Kaplan · ss

Playboy [v35 #3, March 1988] (quarto) []
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86 · Pit Bull · Scott Ely · ss

112 · Modern Love · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

Playboy [v35 #4, April 1988] (quarto) []
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64 · The Bitter Truth · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss

Playboy [v35 #5, May 1988] (quarto) []
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70 · Slow, Slow Burn [Budayeen] · George Alec Effinger · ss

112 · A Small Matter of Consumer Protection · George V. Higgins · ss

Playboy [v35 #6, June 1988] (quarto) []
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66 · Late Night · David Foster Wallace · ss

Playboy [v35 #7, July 1988] (quarto) []
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126 · Run, Sally, Run! [Timothy Cone] · Lawrence Sanders · nv

Playboy [v35 #8, August 1988] (quarto) []
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· Women: Cheat Street · Cynthia Heimel · cl

58 · The Dead Man’s Eyes · Robert Silverberg · ss

116 · The Girl Who Took Lessons · Harry Turtledove · ss

Playboy [v35 #9, September 1988] (quarto) []
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88 · Picture This · Joseph Heller · ex Putnam, 1988

Playboy [v35 #10, October 1988] (quarto) []
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82 · The Hotel-Motel Bar & Grill · Valerie Vogrin · ss; college fiction contest winner.

120 · Hoogly Moogly · James Howard Kunstler · ss

Playboy [v35 #11, November 1988] (quarto) []
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126 · Planet of the Losers · Thomas Berger · ss

Playboy [v35 #12, December 1988] (quarto) []
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86 · The Changing of the Guard · Norman Mailer · ss

118 · Room at the Inn · Herbert Gold · ss

162 · It Ain’t Toontown · Harlan Ellison · ar

Playboy [v36 #1, January 1989] (quarto) []
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94 · The Fly · George Langelaan · nv Playboy June 1957

98 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952

112 · The Hustler · Walter S. Tevis · ss Playboy January 1957

126 · The Hildebrand Rarity [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv Playboy March 1960

150 · Ada · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Playboy April 1969

206 · The Faint · John Updike · ss Playboy May 1978

224 · Tourist Trade · Robert Silverberg · nv Playboy December 1984

234 · You Must Remember This · Robert Coover · nv Playboy January 1985

238 · The Sunken Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy December 1981

Playboy [v36 #2, February 1989] (quarto) []
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96 · Casanova’s Ghost · Asa Baber · ss

Playboy [v36 #3, March 1989] (quarto) []
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82 · King Bee · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

92 · Fancy’s Grouper · Bob Shacochis · ss

Playboy [v36 #4, April 1989] (quarto) []
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92 · House of Cards · Conall Ryan · ex

Playboy [v36 #5, May 1989] (quarto) []
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82 · The Human Fly · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

132 · Here’s Looking at You · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v36 #6, June 1989] (quarto) []
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86 · A Journey · Nadine Gordimer · ss

Playboy [v36 #7, July 1989] (quarto) []
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82 · A Sleep and a Forgetting · Robert Silverberg · nv

Playboy [v36 #8, August 1989] (quarto) []
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72 · Too Many Crooks [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v36 #9, September 1989] (quarto) []
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80 · An Ounce of Luck · Walter Lowe, Jr. · ss

Playboy [v36 #10, October 1989] ($4.00, 178pp+, quarto) []

80 · The Madison Heights Syndrome · A. M. Wellman · ss; college fiction contest winner.

116 · Reece’s Chair · Chet Williamson · ss

Playboy [v36 #11, November 1989] (quarto) []
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88 · Dr. Spinther · Dan Thrapp · ss

112 · The Minotaur [Jake Grafton] · Stephen Coonts · ex Doubleday, 1989

Playboy [v36 #12, December 1989] (quarto) []
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82 · The Killing Man [Mike Hammer] · Mickey Spillane · nv

116 · The Swimmers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

136 · Lucky Pierre in the Doctor’s Office [Lucky Pierre] · Robert Coover · ss

Playboy [v37 #1, January 1990] (quarto) []
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110 · Deep in This Land · Ernest Haycox · ss

142 · The Phantom Blooper [Short-Timers] · Gustav Hasford · ex

Playboy [v37 #2, February 1990] (quarto) []
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86 · Hot Sky · Robert Silverberg · nv

Playboy [v37 #3, March 1990] (quarto) []
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86 · Exes [Max Segal] · Dan Greenburg · ex Houghton Mifflin, 1990

Playboy [v37 #4, April 1990] (quarto) []
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120 · The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis [Bernie Rhodenbarr] · Lawrence Block · ss

Playboy [v37 #5, May 1990] (quarto) []
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88 · A Midsummer Daydream [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v37 #6, June 1990] (quarto) []
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78 · Answers to Soldier [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · ss

Playboy [v37 #7, July 1990] (quarto) []
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84 · The All-Consuming · Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier · nv

Playboy [v37 #8, August 1990] (quarto) []
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64 · Body · Harry Crews · ss

Playboy [v37 #9, September 1990] (quarto) []
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76 · Rabbit at Rest · John Updike · ss

Playboy [v37 #10, October 1990] (quarto) []
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94 · The Night My Brother Worked the Header · Daniel Mueller · ss; college fiction contest winner.

116 · Hartwell · Ron Carlson · ss

Playboy [v37 #11, November 1990] (quarto) []
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86 · Carnal Knowledge · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

Playboy [v37 #12, December 1990] (quarto) []
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100 · Unlocking the Air · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss

118 · The MacGuffin · Stanley Elkin · ss

140 · Gibberish · Thomas Berger · ss

Playboy [v38 #1, January 1991] (quarto) []
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82 · Aperto e Chiuso · John Updike · ss

106 · The Bog Man · Margaret Atwood · ss

132 · The Promise · Ed McBain · ss

Playboy [v38 #2, February 1991] (quarto) []
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74 · Lack & Jill · Kevin Cook · ss

100 · My Life with Joanne Christiansen · Mark Alpert · ss

106 · Of Human Brundage · Ray Russell · ar

Playboy [v38 #3, March 1991] (quarto) []
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108 · The Clone Zone · Robert Silverberg · nv

Playboy [v38 #4, April 1991] (quarto) []
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116 · Uncle Andy Gee’s Farewell Show · Stephen Randall · ss

Playboy [v38 #5, May 1991] (quarto) []
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124 · Who Dat · George Alec Effinger · nv Fires of the Past ed. Anne Devereaux Jordan, St. Martin's, 1991

Playboy [v38 #6, June 1991] (quarto) []
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108 · The Face of War · James Jones · ss

Playboy [v38 #7, July 1991] (quarto) []
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82 · Sports in America · Lucius Shepard · nv

Playboy [v38 #8, August 1991] (quarto) []
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70 · Boomtown · Craig Vetter · ss

Playboy [v38 #9, September 1991] (quarto) []
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92 · The Safari · Malcolm Bosse · ss

Playboy [v38 #10, October 1991] (quarto) []
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100 · Crewcut · Ellen Umansky · ss; college fiction contest winner.

108 · A Blow for Freedom · Lawrence Block · ss

Playboy [v38 #11, November 1991] (quarto) []
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78 · Bottoms Up · Marshall Boswell · ss

Playboy [v38 #12, December 1991] (quarto) []
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102 · Fahrvergnugen · Jane Smiley · ss

114 · Women in Underwear · Stephen Wolf · ss

164 · Kwoon · Charles Johnson · ss

Playboy [v39 #1, January 1992] (quarto) []
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74 · It Comes and Goes · Robert Silverberg · ss; slightly revised to make the protagonist a drug-addict instead of an alcoholic.

130 · The Second Bakery Attack · Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin · ss

150 · Reach Out & Teleport Someone · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

Playboy [v39 #2, February 1992] (quarto) []
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62 · Love in the Lean Years · Donald E. Westlake · ss

Playboy [v39 #3, March 1992] (quarto) []
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124 · Vengeance from Space and the Texas Tomato · Michael Beres · ss

· Vox · Nicholson Baker · ss

Playboy [v39 #4, April 1992] (quarto) []
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88 · Very Old Bones · William Kennedy · ss

Playboy [v39 #5, May 1992] (quarto) []
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78 · Impossible Vacation · Spalding Gray · ss

Playboy [v39 #6, June 1992] (quarto) []
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84 · An Elegy for September · John Nichols · ss

Playboy [v39 #7, July 1992] (quarto) []
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78 · Reston’s Rat · Kevin Cook · ss

104 · The Slip · Gary Smith · ss

Playboy [v39 #8, August 1992] (quarto) []
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60 · The Way to Spook City · Robert Silverberg · na

Playboy [v39 #9, September 1992] (quarto) []
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78 · Beast of the Heartland · Lucius Shepard · nv

Playboy [v39 #10, October 1992] (quarto) []
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74 · The Tale of the Body Thief [Vampire Chronicles] · Anne Rice · ex Knopf, 1992

126 · The Greyhound · Daniel Lyons · ss; college fiction contest winner.

Playboy [v39 #11, November 1992] (quarto) []
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110 · Bobby2 · Pat Jordan · ss

136 · Good Intentions · John Varley · ss

Playboy [v39 #12, December 1992] (quarto) []
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90 · The Premonition · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

104 · Eros in Orbit · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

114 · Party Animal [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss

130 · Personal Power · Thomas Berger · ss

Playboy [v40 #1, January 1993] (quarto) []
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94 · Bluebeard in Ireland · John Updike · ss

110 · The Colonel’s Wife · Andre Dubus · ss

136 · Gates of Eden · Ethan Coen · ss

Playboy [v40 #2, February 1993] (quarto) []
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78 · Hidden Agendas · Marshall Boswell · ss

Playboy [v40 #3, March 1993] (quarto) []
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66 · Feedback · Joe Haldeman · nv

Playboy [v40 #4, April 1993] (quarto) []
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94 · The Visiting Poet · Mark Winegardner · ss

Playboy [v40 #5, May 1993] (quarto) []
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94 · Keller’s Therapy [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · nv

Playboy [v40 #6, June 1993] (quarto) []
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76 · Death in Bangkok · Dan Simmons · nv

Playboy [v40 #7, July 1993] (quarto) []
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94 · Necronauts · Terry Bisson · nv

Playboy [v40 #8, August 1993] (quarto) []
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80 · Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane · Gabriel García Márquez · ss

110 · Outlaw Head & Tail · George Singleton · ss

Playboy [v40 #9, September 1993] (quarto) []
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78 · To the White Sea · James Dickey · ss

Playboy [v40 #10, October 1993] (quarto) []
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78 · Equilibrium · Roland N. Kelts · ss; college fiction contest winner.

92 · 56-0 · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

Playboy [v40 #11, November 1993] (quarto) []
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90 · How It Ended · Jay McInerney · ss

Playboy [v40 #12, December 1993] (quarto) []
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100 · The Gent · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

156 · The Sri Lanka Position · Robert Silverberg · ss

Playboy [v41 #1, January 1994] (quarto) []
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102 · Unterseeboot Doktor · Ray Bradbury · ss

134 · Golf-Ball-Size Hail · Stanley Elkin · ss

Playboy [v41 #2, February 1994] (quarto) []
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76 · She Was Good, She Was Funny · David Marusek · ss

Playboy [v41 #3, March 1994] (quarto) []
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78 · The Courting of Molly Swenson · Ray Dean Mize · ss

Playboy [v41 #4, April 1994] (quarto) []
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78 · Respect · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

Playboy [v41 #5, May 1994] (quarto) []
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106 · Dogs Walked, Plants Watered [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · ss

Playboy [v41 #6, June 1994] (quarto) []
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100 · Beat · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss

Playboy [v41 #7, July 1994] (quarto) []
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80 · Prudence in Hollywood · Ralph Cissne · ss

92 · A Day at the Races · Asa Baber · ss

134 · Safe Sex · Patti Davis · ss

Playboy [v41 #8, August 1994] (quarto) []
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110 · The Joe Show · Terry Bisson · ss

Playboy [v41 #9, September 1994] (quarto) []
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78 · The Village · David Mamet · ss

116 · What I Lived For · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

Playboy [v41 #10, October 1994] (quarto) []
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80 · Buckeye the Elder · Brady Udall · ss; college fiction contest winner.

Playboy [v41 #11, November 1994] (quarto) []
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78 · Closing Time · Joseph Heller · ss

Playboy [v41 #12, December 1994] (quarto) []
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102 · The Ghost Standard · William Tenn · ss

158 · Dynamite Hands · Thom Jones · ss

Playboy [v42 #1, January 1995] (quarto) []
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84 · The Icing on the Cake · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

98 · Border Music · Robert James Waller · ss

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