Analog, June 2008
One of the more irritating pitfalls for any practitioner of the noble art of science fiction writing is to work out some idea that you’ve noticed should have been worked out years ago, to take your time to do it right, and then, on the eve of writing it into a story (or, worse, mailing […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, May 2008
The May, 2008, issue of Analog starts off with a novella called “Test Signals” by David Bartell. There’s not much plotting here, despite a strong idea. Our hero, who is born with a defect—an extra pair of arms—learns that the company he works for is trying to patent the genetic material which gave him […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, April 2008
To the publisher, February, not April, is the cruelest month. Having the shortest number of days, it yields the shortest sales time for a magazine. In most parts of the country, the weather is bitter. Customers do not visit bookstores and newsstands as often as in other months. Even leap year, with its generous doling […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, March 2008
The first science fiction magazine I ever bought was the January 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The issue featured a Christmas cover by Kelly Freas. I had been reading SF about 5 or 6 years and up to then had been content with books, mostly paperbacks. My taste for short fiction was satisfied, I […]
Continue ReadingThe Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age—The ’20s, ’30s & ’40s, edited by Otto Penzler
You would think when you have a book the size of The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, edited by one of the two or three leading authorities in his field, that it would tax the abilities of even the most florid cover blurb writers to come up with statements that exaggerate the book’s […]
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