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Our November issue features something a bit unusual: “Phantom Sense,” a powerful novella by Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross, and a companion science fact article by the same authors about the real science and technology at the core of the story. Science fiction has often explored the consequences of people having capabilities far beyond those of most of us, but what if those abilities can be conferred by technology—and that technology is only available to a few? “Phantom Sense” will put you into the mind of a man with a complex of such abilities that is almost at our fingertips right now, and has potentials both exhilarating and terrifying. But the real problems lie in how the man who has those capabilities can relate to those who don’t. . . .
We also have a variety of stories by authors both familiar and new, including Allen M. Steele, Carl Frederick, Michael A. Armstrong, and one or two whose names you probably don’t know yet but soon will.
Analog is Up In Space!
Chosen for the library
on the International Space Station.
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Phantom Sense
Richard A. Lovett & Mark Niemann-Ross
A tool and its user function as a unit, and the more complex and tightly integrated they are...
I’ve never understood how it could be stalking if all you’re trying to do is keep her safe. I just want to be a good father. Make up for all those years of being AWOL because CI-MEMS is a full-time job. You can’t be a father and CI-MEMS. That is, you can be one—that’s the same as for anyone else. You just wind up with big chunks of time when you have to choose between being AWOL from the Corps or from your family. And if you give your family more than a generic because-my-country-needs-me hint as to why, then you’re both in trouble.
Or that’s how it had been back before I became Staff Sgt. Kip McCorbin (Ret.). Before the (Ret.) bit, that is. Once that happened, it was just me . . . and the secrets.
Twenty years of missions. Twenty years of always being away. Chad, Ethosmalia, Kurdistan, the Altiplano Breakaway. Twenty years of never being able to explain. Then, when it ended and I finally could get my family back, it came at a price, like suddenly being blind. No, that’s not right. There are schools for the blind, a whole infrastructure for helping them learn to cope. As long as I had the Sense, I wouldn’t even mind being blind. Who needs eyes of their own when they have hundreds at their command? When you’ve been given a sense beyond eyes, beyond anything the norms have ever experienced?
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