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In recent issues we’ve featured several stories set in John Barnes’s “Springer” universe, in which our everyday spatial constraints are unlamented parts of the dim past. Our lead novella for March is in a sense the climax of the series, revealing parts of that history heretofore only hinted at—at both the grand and the intensely personal scales. And I mean “intense” quite literally—whether or not you’ve read other stories in the series.
Joel Davis, who has done a number of science fact articles for us in the past, returns with “Worlds Enough,” an up-to-the-moment survey of the farthest reaches of the Solar System, which are considerably more distant and a lot less empty than we used to think. In addition, we have stories by Larry Niven, Grey Rollins, Carl Frederick, and Henry Melton—and, of course, the dramatic conclusion of Karl Schroeder’s serial Sun of Suns.
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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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