Analog
The pages of Analog have been home to many of science fiction’s foremost writers and stories.
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, January-February 2008
Analog once again kicks off the year with a double issue. The 2008 January-February issue’s short fiction offerings include ten short stories and novelettes, as well as a “Probability Zero” piece, alternate history star Harry Turtledove’s “Worlds Enough, and Time”—a two-pager offering a quirky twist on the exogenesis hypothesis of how life began.
The first […]
Analog, 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 ReadingAnalog, July/August 2007
In his Hugo-nominated novel, Eifelheim, based on a short story of the same name that appeared in Analog (11/1986), Michael F. Flynn demonstrated an understanding of the way the thought processes of Medieval man differ from modern man. It is so much more than just a matter of believing in “superstitions.” In “Quaestiones Super […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, October 2007
Is it possible in the twenty-first century for science fiction to be sustained solely by ideas? Should the intention to generate a sense of wonder be the summit of the genre’s ambition? As children, when we read, we tend to be more forgiving of weaknesses in style, characterisation, and ambition, particularly if the story manages […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, December 2007
Analog’s December 2007 issue felt like a hat-tip to the more “golden age” themes of science fiction: eccentric aliens, self-thinking robots, and traveling back through time. These are the sorts of stories that can be fully associated with the genre, but without something to make them special, they can be considered a rather unoriginal […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, November 2007
For a reader who hasn’t been down these paths in a long time, the question was whether the strange odour in the air when opening the pages of the November 2007 issue of Analog (Vol. CXXVII, no. 11) was the whiff of nostalgia or the tang of formaldehyde.
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