OUR July/August 2012 ISSUE

Our July/August double issue appropriately features a number of special items—and combinations of items. Vincent Di Fate’s cover illustrates “Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light,” a novella by Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason, which in turn has a companion
fact article by Lovett, “Fluffy Impact: What LCROSS Found When It Crashed on the Moon.” LCROSS was the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, a NASA mission that deliberately crashed a satellite onto the Moon as a means of searching for water near the
surface. It found some intriguing surprises, with implications that could be of life-or-death importance to people living there—especially near the “peak of eternal light.”

Lovett also offers another of his popular how-to articles on fiction writing, this one on “Real Talk: The Art of Writing Dialog.” Rob Chilson has another novella, with a deceptively old-fashioned title, “The Conquest of the Air,” which does not mean what you probably think. It’s actually a tale of alien contact, seen from both alien and human perspectives. Gray Rinehart has another alien-viewpoint story, “The Song of Uullioll,” and Ben Bova a new Sam Gunn story. We’ll also have a wide variety of other fiction by such writers as H. G. Stratmann, Sarah K. Castle, Howard V. Hendrix, Carl Frederick, Catherine Shaffer, and Harry Turtledove. It’s a big issue, with plenty for everybody!

Analog is Up In Space!
Chosen for the library on the International Space Station.