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1999 Analytical Laboratory Voting for the 1999 AnLab Poll has concluded. Thanks to all our readers who voted, you are entered in the drawing for a free one-year subscription. The winners will be announced during the Nebula Weekend in May (May 19-21, 2000), and will be posted on our website soon after. Thank you! |
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February 2000 Often our covers are commissioned to illustrate a particular story in an issue, but next month we reverse that usual procedure. Artist Alan Clark recently challenged a group of writers to write stories based on some of his standalone paintings, and Jerry Oltion came up with one aptly titled "A Star Is Born" (the title means exactly what it says!) that seemed well suited to lead off our February issue. And since the painting already existed, it seemed only fair that we ask Mr. Clark if we could use it for the cover. . . . The rest of the fiction includes a wide variety of stories by such writers as Michael A. Burstein, Charles L. Harness, H.G. Stratmann, and Dave Creek. Burstein's "The Quantum Teleporter" looks suspiciously like the beginning of an intruguing new series, and Creek's "A Glimpse of Splendor" is, we may hope, only our first look at a fascinating world with a uniquely challenging problem. Finally, Ben Bova's fact article, "Slowboat to the Stars!" sounds like it's about interstellar travel, and it is–in part. But its main subject is really biology, and the way in which research in what seems an unrelated field may ultimately provide the solution to the most vexing problem in spaceflight. |
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