Analog Science Fiction & Fact - Jul-Aug & Sept 2014 [epub&mobi]

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2014



July-August 2014:

This month, our double issue kicks off with an extra-length “Journeyman” tale that follows immediately on the heels of the one in the June issue. In “The Journeyman: Against the Green,” Teodorq and his companion Sammi find their current lifestyle under threat, but might that threat also put them one step closer to fulfilling their oath to find the star men?

Then “Journeyman” author Michael F. Flynn doffs his “Science fiction writer” hat and dons one that boldly says “Statistician!” on the brim, when he brings us a larger-than-usual fact article about a subject relevant to every other fact article, “Spanking Bad Data Won’t Make Them Behave.”

In the rest of the issue: someone is hunting cyber-urchins in Juliette Wade’s “Mind Locker”; Bill Johnson’s “Code Blue Love” brings new meaning to the term “interior monolog”; a journalist is pressed to solve an unusual murder mystery in “Who Killed Bonnie’s Brain?” by Dan Hatch; Paula S. Jordan lets us get up close and personal with an alien in “Voorh”; and Rajnar Vajra brings us a modern throwback to the Golden Age with “The Triple Sun.”

We even manage to fit in a special feature on foreshadowing by Richard A. Lovett, as well as all our usual excellent columns, and plenty of short stories by exciting newcomers to Analog like Timons Esaias’s “Sadness”; James K. Isaac’s “Valued Employee”; R. Garrett Wilson’s “Journeyer”; Eric Choi’s “Crimson Sky”; Andrew Reid’s “The Half-Toe Bar”; and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro’s “Hot and Cold.”


September 2014:

We kick off this month’s issue with Mark Niemann-Ross’s “Plastic Thingy,” wherein an Average Joe gets a rare opportunity to apply some useful skills to help out his other-than-average new friends.

Then we have “Championship B’tok,” where a game could have very real consequences (and may illuminate more of the secrets of Edward M. Lerner’s InterstellarNet universe).

Our fact article is “Saturn’s ‘Jet-Propelled’ Moon and the Search for Artificial Life,” from Richard A. Lovett; James C. Glass fictionalizes some of that very research and wonders what lies “Beneath the Ice of Enceladus.” We also have a white-knuckled account of interplanetary combat in Jacob A. Boyd’s “Release”; the hurdles of diplomatically dealing with angry aliens in “Calm” from Marissa Lingen and Alec Austin; a look at how AI might influence our end-of-life decisions in Lavie Tidhar’s “Vladimir Chong Chooses to Die”; and Naomi Kritzer explains (to paraphrase the Rolling Stones) that we can’t always get what we want, but sometimes we get what we need, in “Artifice.”