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8/19/2008 4:05:49 PM
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Fabrice D.
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Which Analog issue is the first you've read ever?
Here's my first two:
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http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0753.jpg
bought in Anchorage while holidaying there.
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8/19/2008 4:14:17 PM
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Fabrice D.
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I loved them, so I subcribed immediately after reading them.
Here my first subber issue!
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0757.jpg
POLES APART was a very enjoyable discovery. Ever since, I've been a Nordley Fan.
I also enjoyed the beginning of the ANDERSON/BEASON serial in the issue I bought in Alaska, and was deeply annoyed not to be able to read the following parts.
A few years later, when re-holidaying in the USA, I found the paperback edition of the serial and bought (and read) it immediately. It was fun!
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8/19/2008 4:20:28 PM
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Fabrice D.
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Aaaah! these were good times. Analog had 11 issues + 2 double issues per year!
Here, my first encounter of the third type with Tom Ligon:
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0768.jpg
And my first Kooistra:
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0762.jpg
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8/19/2008 4:44:28 PM
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Fabrice D.
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THE CARHART SHALE, by Grant Callin, one of my favorite stories that year:
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Never heard of him again after that.
And SQUATTER'S RIGHTS, my first Bohnhof, another one of my favorites at the time,
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0760.jpg
Proudly Analogian since 16 years!
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8/19/2008 5:28:16 PM
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Mike Flynn
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My first one was this one
It had the second installment in a serial called "Dune World" which was fascinatingly intricate.
My subscription began with this one:
And this was followed bing-bing-bing in the next three issues by the first Lord Darcy story, by a Mack Reynolds WestWorld/SovWorld with a gladiator on the cover standing in a high-tech arena, and then - the piece de resistance - by H. Beam Piper's "Gunpowder God." Shazaam.
Those were the heady days of the 8.5X11 issues -- and that caught my eye at the newstand in the bank lobby where I waited for the connecting bus to the South Side on my way home from HS. It was a chance meeting. It was also the first SF mag I had seen with a "scientific" cover and an "understated" title. THRILLING WONDER STORIES!!! it was not, saith the mag's name. SF for grown-ups? Forsooth. I had to check it out.
Someday, I hoped to write well enough to be admitted to its pages; for what reader of SF does not contemplate one day writing it?
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8/19/2008 5:47:39 PM
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AndrewCrisp
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The first Analog magazine I ever encountered was this one; I found it in a catchall magazine/paperback rack at the Fredericton Public Library in 1991:
Someone had unloaded a number of Analogs from the period of 1979-1986 at the library and I remember checking them out again and again. I was able to rescue only a few when they started selling said magazines at their annual used book sales some years later - the others I hope found good homes.
My first Newsstand bought Analog was this one in 1992 (this issue sadly, along with a few other suffered from being in the wrong place at the wrong time during a water main crisis and is no longer among the readable):
And this was my first subscription copy:
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8/19/2008 6:16:39 PM
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John Thiel
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I recall the title change being discussed, so I did see the new name roll in. This was what was going on before some of the people on this forum were born.
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8/19/2008 6:55:55 PM
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jeffkooistra
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This was mine--Sept., 1973--found it on the rack at a grocery store in California--bought it because I had recently discovered sf story collections, and recognized this is one of those magazines said stories came from.
This was my first subscription issue, and my second because they came on that same happy day in late 1973.
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8/19/2008 8:22:17 PM
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Tom Ligon
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I've already mentioned elsewhere the first one in my collection is February '83, with Candy gracing the cover. The mailing label has somebody else's name on it, so evidently I found it used. That was not my first exposure to Analog, which was several years earlier, probably around 1980. A friend at work used to loan me his. December 1980 and May 1981 look distinctly familiar, and I'm sure I read the cover stories.
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http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0601.jpg
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0607.jpg
I started subscribing about the time I started submitting, and my first subscription issue was apparently December '83.
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8/19/2008 9:16:06 PM
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pc
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I read some Analogs and similar monthlies in the early 70s. Did not keep any of 'em, sorry to say.
Began my formal subscription about ten years ago, and have saved every issue.
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8/20/2008 1:03:21 AM
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Gator
Posts 155
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My first was this one:
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/tn_ASF_0541.jpg
It was also the same time I started training as a Launch Team Systems Analyst on the Titan II booster, so I really was interested in the Science Fact article on Atomic Rockets.
But what's interesting is this little news blurb on page 5...
Analog dominates Hugo Awards
Analog contributors marched off with five awards at the 33rd World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, August 14 through 17, 1975.
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Ben Bova was voted Best Professional Editor for the third straight year.
One of the novellettes in that issue was "The Visible Man" by some upstart named Gardner Dozois. It seems Analog may have planted the seeds of its own editorial awards eclipse.
Oddly enough, I still enjoy Analog more than I do Asimov's, though I do read both. Analog is the only one I've bothered to subscribe to. I pretty much can relate to most Analog stories, but only really enjoy Asimov's when they're running an Allen Steele serial. (Well, and when they've got something by Nancy Kress or Connie Willis or...)
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8/20/2008 5:28:33 AM
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tpi
Posts 63
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I am pretty sure my first was this:
http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0612.jpg
Good issue, by the way.
I subcribed pretty soon after that, I was subscriber until something like 1993. My child was born at that year, and for some strange reason there wasn't time to read as much as before. Now she is fifteen, and spends 99.9% of her nonsleeping and nonschool time on mobile phone with her friends, visiting her friends, on with her friends on her room gigling all the time. Somehow I find there is again time to read more science fiction. :-) And also a bit of passion in collecting Analog. I now have complete collection between 1972 - 1994, a new subscription since April 2008, and about 50% issues between -94 and -08.
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8/20/2008 10:14:21 AM
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John Thiel
Posts 1323
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This is surely an exercise not only in nostalgia but in scholasticism. For instance, finding out how far back Candy goes, and having an early Cochrane story recollected.
My first Analog in quite awhile had a story by Stanley Schmidt in it, before he was editor. I'd been living in a couple of places where no sf was being displayed and sold, and upon my return home I was incarcerated in Marion, Indiana for the better part of a year, so no sf there, either, though in fact, that's where I was when I saw the September 1970 issue; I was traveling freely in town as a rehabilitation exercise and found some sf on the stands.
Kooistra got his first issue while I was touring Yucatan, so I missed that one. But I saw another issue he displays on the stands at Purdue, and I recollect what I thought when I saw the cover--"Kelly Freas seems to be still with them, though not taking so much care with his art...hmm, he was on the September 1970 issue cover too, and it looked like a Van Dongen, he really wasn't taking care of his art then." And my second thought as I looked at that cover was, "ROBOT A. Heinlein", a whimsical reaction to his name. Looking back is well worth doing.
A story by A. Bertam Chandler illustrated by Leo Ramon Summers in the September 1970 issue shows some fancy tangling with Howard Browne's stables.
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8/20/2008 5:38:47 PM
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Alastair
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Let's see, my first Analog was this one:
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I was 13 and the cover caught my eye - both the image and the story title. I've been reading it pretty much continuously since then, minus a few issues here and there when I moved or let a subscription lapse.
Over the years I've collected a number of back issues, my oldest may be this one:
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Of personal historical interest though is this one:
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my father has a letter to the editor (then F. Orlin Tremaine) in it.
And I just noticed that this is my 100th post, which seems somehow appropriate.
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8/20/2008 8:54:17 PM
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karlb
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My first (not-especially memorable) issue:
http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/IMAGES/analog_6108.jpg
But it was plenty good enough to hook me for quite a while.
The 8.5 by 11 issues Mike Flynn refers to above: oh, what a gorgeous magazine Analog was then. Schoenherr is my all-time favorite Analog cover artists and he did some great ones in that stretch:
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8/20/2008 11:15:31 PM
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fotsgreg
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I have no idea what the first actual issue I ever read was, but my current collection dates to at least the June, 1960 edition as I said above. I might have a few older issues in storage however.
My grandmother had me reading science fiction from her collection which dated back into the 1920's/1930's at least by the time I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. I can remember seeing a lot of the older covers, but not the stories I read in them.
Yeah, I'm gettin' old...
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8/26/2008 11:22:58 AM
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RobinA
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I can't remember my first issue.
My late Uncle Bertil was a subscriber from the fifties until his death in 1978, and as he finished his subscription copies, he passed them onto me. So the first issues I bought were probably in 1979, when his subscription lapsed. He also subscribed to F&SF, which he also passed onto me.
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8/26/2008 2:56:24 PM
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meindzai
Posts 201
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I think it was April of this year. Doesn't that just take you back?
Yeah, I guess I'm not quite the veteran yet. Ask me again in 20 years and then we can get nostalgic.
-DaveK
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8/27/2008 6:56:20 PM
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RGB
Posts 73
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My first issue was sometime in the early 80s, not quite as far back as some of you. Before that I had a subscription to the last dying years of Galaxy. I have them all packed away in boxes.
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9/1/2008 5:41:35 PM
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Absarka
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This question sent me running downstairs to my collection where I spent some time rumageing through my set of ASTOUNDING/ANALOG to find my own first issues. The very first one I remember seeing was the November 1974 issue with a nice Jack Gaughn cover illustrating Alfred Bester's "The Indian Giver". I was 15 and spending the weekend with a friend at his house in Grundy, Virginia and he had that issue lying around in his room. I remember picking it up and reading the Bester story only to annoyingly find that it was a serial. Year's later at an SF convention art show I spotted two similar versions of that same cover by Gaughn. They turned out to be originals of alternate versions of that cover (I later learned that Gaughn had painted about three such studies for the editor's approval before painting the final version), and I snapped them up. I wonder where that third study and the original cover art is now?
ANALOG either never appeared on local newstands in my small hometown or at least, not where I saw it in those days. The following summer while on a school trip to Washington DC I spotted the August 1975 issue on sale at a gas station near DC, and even though the price had escalated from 75 cents to a whopping $1, I nonetheless snatched it up and plunked down my dollar. Read it cover to cover on the bus ride home, and later that week I responded to the ad on the back cover for the SF Book Club first time, sending in my 10 cents and ordering - as best I can recall, THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY, Vol. 2A and 2B of the SF HALL OF FAME anthologies, and AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS. So when they arrived my collection consisted of those 4 book club hardbacks, about 12 Sf paperbacks and that one lone ANALOG.
The following year I almost accidently attended my first SF convention - Rovacon II in Roanoke, VA (where I met the wonderful Leigh Brackett and the impressive ASTOUNDING writer Nelson Bond) and spotted a table in the dealer's room that seemed to be groaning under the weight of hundreds of black-spined ASTOUNDINGS from the 50's. I think they were priced at $2.00 each which seems cheap now, but in 1976 was a little rich for me. So I didn't buy any. Instead I spent a whole $5.00 on a huge, thick WWII issue of AMAZING STORIES (the Dec. 1942 issue a great St. John cover illustrating what I thought then was Tarzan...) just so that I could claim that I actually owned a real pulp magazine. I remember thinking that I'd probably never buy another pulp magazine again, but at least I actually had that one...
To be continued...
Curt Phillips
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