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September 2004
Our September issue, through a series of purely fortuitous coincidences, could be considered our "Variations on Mars" issue. In addition to Part 2 of Mary A. Turzillo’s novel An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, we have two quite different visions of Mars by other authors. One is "Trophies and Treasures," by Jerry Oltion and Amy Axt Hanson; would you believe a cross-country camel race among the British aristocracy on Mars? And then there’s "The First Martian," wherein promising newcomer Joe Schembrie shows a quite different kind of heroic pioneer.
It’s not all about Mars, of course. Rajnar Vajra’s "Viewschool" is well-timed for the beginning of the school year, with its vision of the challenges of a new kind of teaching. And Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D., long one of our favorite science fact writers, returns after too long an absence from our pages with "The Fifth Biorevolution." You can probably guess who has the starring role, but the jury is still out on the relative proportions of heroism and villainy.
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NEW! Astounding Science Fiction Collector's Cards!
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Terraforming can open a whole new world to human life —
but that's not just a single thing.
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Illustration by John Allemand
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SPECIAL!
Read John G Cramer's new
column about Shahriar S. Afshar,
the July 30th guest on NPR's Science Friday,
and the cover story in this week's New Scientist!
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The Alternate View by Jeffery D. Kooistra
Jeffery asks, "Where will new Science Fiction readers come from?" Find out his answer.
The Reference Library by Tom Easton
Reviews of books by Tim Powers, Stephen Baxter, C.J. Cherryh, Paul McAuley, and Patricia A. McKillip, among others.
Upcoming Events by Anthony Lewis
Every month, Anthony keeps you up to date on what's going on in the world of science fiction.
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Hugo Nominees
Novella
The Cookie Monster
by Vernor Vinge
Walk in Silence
by Catherine Asaro
Short Story
Paying it Forward
by Michael A. Burstein
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Analog and Asimov's collections now available at Audible.com
Key word search for: Analog Science Fiction
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Serial
An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl (part II)
by Mary A. Turzillo
Novelettes
Trophies and Treasures
by Jerry Oltion and Amy Axt Hanson
Viewschool
by Rajnar Vajra
Short Stories
The First Martian
by Joe Schembrie
Unbound
by Dave Creek
Science Fact
THE FIFTH BIOREVOLUTION
by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
Reader's Departments
The Editor's Page
In Times to Come
The Alternate View by Jeffery D. Kooistra
The Reference Library by Tom Easton
Brass Tacks
Upcoming Events by Anthony Lewis
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