In 1980, the magazine was purchased by Davis Publications, which was already publisher for Isaac AsimovΓÇÖs Science Fiction Magazine and owned by Joel Davis (son of one of the Ziff-Davis publishing partners). Although the circulation of the magazine dropped during the 1980ΓÇÖs, ASF was still filling its pages with quality, award-winning work a half-century after its inception: Gordon DicksonΓÇÖs ΓÇ£The Cloak and the Staff;ΓÇ¥ Poul AndersonΓÇÖs ΓÇ£The Saturn Game;ΓÇ¥ Greg BearΓÇÖs ΓÇ£Blood MusicΓÇ¥ and Lois McMaster BujoldΓÇÖs ΓÇ£The Mountains of Mourning ΓÇ¥ (as well as the serial version of the Nebula-winning novel Falling Free).
