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Our January/February double issue offers a wide variety of attractions in extra-generous doses. David A. Hardy has a spectacular cover for Lee Goodloe’s novelette “The Balance of Nature.” It’s fashionable in some circles to talk a lot about ecology without really understanding it—without understanding, for example, that while disturbed ecosystems do have a way of finding new balances, there’s no guarantee that any particular component—humans, for instance—will have a favored place in the new order. Goodloe shows us an educational field trip that gets a lot more educational than anyone hoped—teaching, for example, that nature is not always warm and fuzzy, but sometimes hot and spiky.
We also have another novella set in John Barnes’s “springer” universe; a wide variety of stories by such authors as Rajnar Vajra, Richard A. Lovett, Ekaterina G. Sedia and David Bartell, and Grey Rollins; and Part 3 of Karl Schroeder’s ever-expanding serial Sun of Suns. Plus not one, but two fact articles: one on near-term practical applications of nanotechnology by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D., and one on a surprising side of Earth’s climatic history by Richard A. Lovett. And, for dessert, a special feature by popular author James P. Hogan on the question readers most often ask writers, and his personal observations about the answer.
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The Balance of Nature
by Lee Goodloe
People like to believe in things, but sometimes that takes a certain amount of shortsidedness. . .
Illustration by David A. Hardy
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The Science Behind the Story: The Speed of Understanding
by Susan Urbanek Linville
The Science Behind the Story
by Carl Frederick
The Alternate View by Jeffery D. Kooistra
Jeffery talks about relativistic length contraction.
The Reference Library by Tom Easton
Reviews of books by Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, Jeff Hecht, and John Moore, among others.
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Serial
Sun of Suns (Part III of IV)
by Karl Schoeder
Novella
"The Night is Fine," The Walrus Said
by John Barnes
Novelettes
The Balance of Nature
by Lee Goodloe
Dinosaur Blood
by Richard A. Lovett
Written in Plaster
by Rajnar Vajra
Short Stories
Mop-Up
by Grey Rollins
Kamikaze Bugs
by Ekaterina Sedia & David Bartell
Report on Ranzipal's Plus-Dimension Carry-All
by Mark W. Tiedemann
Change
by Julian Flood
Science Fact
POLUTION, SOLUTIONS, ELUTION, AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
by Stephen L. Gillette, Ph.D.
FROM FIMBULWINTER TO DANTE'S HELL:THE STRANGE SAGA OF SNOWBALL EARTH
by Richard A. Lovett
Special Features
WHY DO READERS ALWAYS ASK…?
by James P. Hogan
Reader's Departments
The Editor's Page
The Alternate View by Jeffery D. Kooistra
The Reference Library by Tom Easton
Brass Tacks
The 2005 Index and Analytical Laboratory Ballot
In Times to Come
Upcoming Events by Anthony Lewis
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CHARLES L. HARNESS, 1915-2005
Charles L. Harness, well known for a unique kind of science fiction in Analog and elsewhere, died on September 20, 2005, after a long illness. Born December 29, 1915, in Colorado City, Texas, he attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., earning B.S. and LL.B. degrees from the latter. He worked awhile as mineral economist for the United States Bureau of Mines, and was for many years a patent attorney for the American Cyanamid Company and later W. R. Grace and Company in New York and Washington.
His intimate familiarity with the practice and oddities of patent law often made important contributions to his stories, which included half a dozen novels and many shorter pieces, but there was far more to them than that. He had an imagination not quite like anybody else's, often combining the rigors of both natural and human law with fantasy and mythological elements in intricate plots peopled by memorable characters. There weren't as many of them as his readers might have hoped for, but he produced more than his share of memorable stories in his six-decade career, which began with a cover story for Astounding in 1948 and will continue into the future with several new posthumous publications. Both he, a thoroughly professional craftsman and artist, and his work will be deeply missed.
He is survived by a brother, a daughter, a son, and their families, to all of whom we extend our sincerest condolences. Memorial donations may be made to the Kidron Bethel Retirement Village in North Newton, Kansas.
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