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OUR JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 ISSUE

This issue starts off 2011 with a double issue offering an uncommonly wide and varied selection of stories, articles, and special features. Juliette Wade has only recently started appearing in Analog, but immediately made a big impression on readers with her tales of truly alien yet very believable cultures seen from within. It’s one of the hardest things to attempt in science fiction, but she has a special knack for it, no doubt due in part due to her background in linguistics—and living with alien cultures. This month she leads off our double issue with another fine example, “At Cross Purposes,” which inspired Bob Eggleton’s cover.

A well-known theme in science fiction is the generation ship, in which humans embark on a voyage so long that generations will live and die on board before anyone reaches the destination. In many such stories the successive generations lose sight of what the trip was for and the original mission is never accomplished; but this month Domingo Santos, one of Spain’s most prominent science fiction writers, looks at the problem from a different angle: How can you make sure that the would-be colonists don’t forget their purpose, and even if you find a way, what actually happens when they get there? The answer may involve an unusual combination of very old and very new ideas. . . .

Astronomer Kevin Walsh has a science fact article about what Earth’s past stages may tell us about the prospects for Earthlike planets elsewhere, and Richard A. Lovett has another of his popular special features about writing, this time about incorporating autobiographical material into fiction. Last but by no means least, the rest of our stellar line-up includes a wide range of stories by Michael F. Flynn, Stephen L. Burns, Dave Creek, Sean McMullen, Donald Moffitt, Norman Spinrad, and perhaps a promising newcomer or two


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At Cross Purposes
by Juliette Wade

Before you come to an agreement with somebody else, you have to understand what they want—on their terms, not yours.

1. Lynn

One more sector done; we shuck off our helmets with a groan and strap into the shuttle, guys in back and me in the pilot’s seat. Six hours in a suit dusting rigs and adjusting chemical mixes will pretty much wear you out. I take us up in a wide circle, as a kind of salute to the part of me I’ve left in each of these big machines over the years. In glaring sunlight, the newly cleaned rigs twinkle like a pattern of tiny stars against the gray desolation of Kasemsarn’s world—a.k.a. our big experiment.
But eyes can’t see what we’ve really accomplished.
When I look at K’s world, I see the color of numbers flowing. Numbers in the ice trees that branch under the soil; numbers in the still-too-thin atmosphere that tell me our machines are working, shifting molecule by molecule until the balance tips. Numbers will bring life to this place, they say, in our lifetimes.
As I pull out of the curve, a shadow on the instruments grabs me by the heart.
A cloud?
It’s ultra-high altitude, around 200 kilometers. I can’t help my adrenaline reaction—I’m tempted to abandon course and go looking for it.
“Sung, Kenneth,” I say over my shoulder. “Can you guys see this?”
No answer. The guys always like to gossip in back, and right now they seem awfully excited. I glance over my shoulder, dip in an ear just as Kenneth says, “Bloody hell, you got this from the Headmistress? I’d heard the rumor, but—”

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The Alternate View
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Jefimenko's Last Word on Gravity

The Reference Library
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Upcoming Events
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Every month, Anthony keeps you up to date on what's going on in the world of science fiction.

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The Science Behind the Story: The View from the Top
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The Science Behind the Story: A Sound Basis of Misunderstanding
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The Science Behind the Story: To Climb A Flat Mountain
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The Science Behind the Story: Cavernauts
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The Science Behind the Story: InterstellarNet
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The Science Behind the Story: The Teller of Time
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NOVELLA
The First Day of Eternity
by Domingo Santos

NOVELETTES
At Cross Purposes
by Juliette Wade

The Unfinished Man
by Dave Creek

Enigma
by Sean McMullen

Stay
by Stephen L. Burns

The Frog Prince
by Michael F. Flynn

SHORT STORIES
A Snitch In Time
by Donald Moffitt

Some of Them Closer
by Marissa Lingen

The First Conquest of Earth
by David W. Goldman

Out There
by Norman Spinrad

Non-Native Species
by Janet Freeman

SCIENCE FACT
Other Earths in Space in Time
by Kevin Walsh

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Multivac's Singularity
by Richard A. Lovett

SPECIAL FEATURE
Writing Fiction....About Yourself
by Richard A. Lovett

READER’S DEPARTMENTS
The Editor's Page

Biolog: Juliette Wade
by Richard A. Lovett

In Times To Come

The Alternate View
by Jeffery D. Kooistra

The Reference Library
by Don Sakers

Brass Tacks

The 2010 Index

Analytical Laboratory Ballot

Upcoming Events
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