Authors in this Issue
Howard V. Hendrix is the author of six novels, many works of shorter fiction (collected in several volumes, most recently The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes), many essays (scholarly and opinion/analysis pieces), and poems. He is also author, editor, or coeditor of seven nonfiction books. He taught at the college level for many years. His recent work appears regularly in Star*Line, the San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, and Analog. He has at one time or another also served as head of SFWA’s Credits and Ethics Committee, as SFWA Western Regional Director, and as SFWA Vice President. Most recently served as juror for SFPA’s Rhysling Award.
Monalisa Foster’s writing career really began when she taught herself English by reading and translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. After she devoured the juvenile section, she moved on to the grown-up books. She made her first professional sale to Kristine Katherine Rusch, a short story called “Pretending to Sleep,” but her first published work was Bellona’s Gift in Terra Nova. She’s self-published novels and novellas in her Ravages of Honor epic space opera series. Her short stories have been published in Fantastic Hope, The Founder Effect, World Breakers, Robosoldiers, and The Ross 248 Project. While space opera is her favorite genre to write, she considers herself genre-fluid and has written in several speculative subgenres, Romance, and Literature. She is currently working on sequels, both to Threading the Needle and in her Ravages of Honor series. Monalisa graduated from ASU with dreams of becoming an astrophysicist. Instead she designed and tested semiconductors, worked on an engineering master’s degree, and then tackled the hardest job on Earth—motherhood. When her kids were old enough to go to school she kept herself busy by doing volunteer work at a hospital and was recruited to run radiation oncology and nuclear medicine research programs.
J.T. Sharrah had a perfectly ordinary childhood. When his evil younger brother usurped the throne, he escaped from the palace through an underground tunnel and made his way to the harbor where he stowed away aboard a pirate ship bound for. . . . What’s that? You suspect he’s strayed from the truth? Okay. Guilty as charged, but what did you expect? He writes fiction. He’s a professional liar. The truth? He was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He became a voracious reader when he discovered science fiction and fantasy novels. He attended the University of Colorado. He subsequently taught at CU: Greek and Roman history. He began taking Taekwondo lessons during his junior year in college, became the assistant instructor of CU Taekwondo, and eventually served for three years as the head instructor. He also worked in the hotel industry—as a bookkeeper and front desk manager. He retired in the year 2000 to devote himself to his first love: writing science fiction.
Andrew Sullivan lives in Canberra, Australia, where he is a research scientist studying wildfires who collects books and writes fiction in his spare time. “Peer Review” is Andrew’s first appearance in Analog and grew out of his experiences undertaking his PhD in physics at the Australian National University. While there he came to know a few eccentric Russian theoretical physicists but none, as far as he is aware, ever built a time machine.
Eric Choi is an award-winning writer, editor, and aerospace engineer in Toronto, Canada. He was the first recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award (now the Dell Magazines Award) and he has twice won the Aurora Award for his Analog short story “Crimson Sky” and for the Chinese-themed anthology The Dragon and the Stars (DAW) co-edited with Derwin Mak. With Ben Bova, he co-edited the hard SF anthology Carbide Tipped Pens (Tor). His short story collection Just Like Being There (Springer) was released last year. Please visit his website www.aerospacewriter.ca or follow him on Twitter @AerospaceWriter.
Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer and the founder and editor-in-chief of khōréō, a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. Her stories have appeared in Analog, Writer’s Digest, Uncharted Magazine, and others. In a past life, she was a computational biologist fascinated by machine learning. You can find her slinking around NYC bookstores and online at www.aleksandrahill.com.
Mary E. Lowd is a prolific science-fiction and furry writer in Oregon. She’s had more than 170 stories and a half dozen novels published, always with more on the way. Her work has won numerous awards, and she’s received more nominations for Ursa Major Awards than any other individual. She is also the founder and editor of Zooscape, an e-zine of fantastic furry fiction. Learn more at www.marylowd.com.
Douglas F. Dluzen, PhD, is a geneticist, science communicator, and career coach. He’s previously studied the genetic contributors to aging, cancer, hypertension, and other age-related diseases. He loves to write science and science fiction while sitting on the couch with his wife Julia, son Parker, and daughter Cedar.
Joel Armstrong’s speculative stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Artifice & Craft, Daily Science Fiction, and NewMyths.com. By day, he’s a content editor for a nonfiction book publisher. He lives in West Michigan with his spouse, child, and two naughty cats. Find out more at joeljarmstrong.com or on Instagram @joelarmstrongwrites.
Vera Brook is a neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, and romance writer. This is her first story in Analog.
Gray Rinehart writes science fiction and fantasy stories, songs, and … other things. He is the only person to have commanded an Air Force satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr. Demento Show. He is currently a contributing editor (the “Slushmaster General”) for Baen Books. Gray is the author of the lunar colonization novel Walking on the Sea of Clouds, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and multiple anthologies. As a singer/songwriter, he has three albums which feature science-fiction-and-fantasy-inspired music. During his unusual USAF career, Gray fought rocket propellant fires, refurbished space launch facilities, “flew” Milstar satellites, drove trucks, encrypted nuclear command and control orders, commanded the largest remote tracking station in the Air Force Satellite Control Network, and did other interesting things. His alter ego is the Gray Man, one of several famed ghosts of South Carolina’s Grand Strand, and his web site is graymanwrites.com.
Benjamin C. Kinney is a neuroscientist, SFF writer, and Hugo Award finalist assistant editor of the science fiction magazine Escape Pod. He has a fast-overlapping conversation style, but nevertheless managed to ask an astrobiologist friend the most important question of all: “What’s the most interesting piece of science you’ve read about lately?” This is his fourth appearance in Analog, and his stories have also appeared in Strange Horizons, Sunday Morning Transport, Fantasy Magazine, and many other excellent magazines. You can read most of those stories online at www.benjaminckinney.com, follow him across social media @BenCKinney, or reach him via his agent Marisa Cleveland of the Seymour Agency.
Elliott Gresswell is a writer and Narrative Designer based in the UK. When he isn’t storylining video games, he’s off taking photos or being harassed by cats. He can be found online at: www.irreverentprogress.com.
Zack Be is an author, obscure songwriter, and psychotherapist trapped in the Washington, D.C. area gravity well. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Writers of the Future Vol. 36, and The Science Fiction Tarot anthology. In 2023, he was a finalist for the Jim Baen Memorial Science Fiction Award. He is also the editor of Inner Workings, an anthology of SFF stories and craft writing essays from Calendar of Fools. Last year, his band Pretty Bitter released their LP Hinges on all streaming platforms. More info about Zack’s writing and music can be found at zackbe.com or anywhere @bezackbe.
Lorraine Alden taught economics at several universities before taking up fiction writing. After spending a few years shedding the passive voice and weasel words that had served her so well in academia, she began getting some stories and humor pieces published. This is her second story in Analog. She lives in Northern California with her husband.
Angus McIntyre is the author of the space-opera novella “The Warrior Within,” published by Tor.com in 2018. His short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. For more information, see his website at https://angus.pw/
Born in Nottingham, England, Jennifer R. Povey (she/her) now lives in Northern Virginia, where she writes everything from heroic fantasy to stories for Analog. She has written a number of novels across multiple sub genres. She is a full member of SFWA. Her interests include horseback riding, Doctor Who and attempting to out-weird her various friends and professional colleagues. Find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jrpovey/ or Mastodon at @NinjaFingers@universeodon.com.
Bio: Leonard Richardson lives in New York City and writes science fiction and software, including the Python library Beautiful Soup. His short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Clarkesworld; and his two novels, Constellation Games and Situation Normal, are published by Candlemark & Gleam. He has a blog at www.crummy.com.
Richard A. Lovett has been in Analog nearly 200 times in all departments ranging from fact to fiction. Eighteen of his best fact articles are collected in Here Be There Dragons: Exploring the Fringes of Human Knowledge, and his popular Floyd & Brittney stories are now a novel-length book, Neptune’s Treasure, both on available on Amazon.
Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. continues to search through past issues of Astounding and Analog for stories and articles with interesting connections to current science and technology. This is another aspect of his ongoing efforts to locate works of science fiction that have actually inspired inventions. His website is https://www.emwysocki.com.
Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the #1 bestselling author and Hugo-nominated editor of eleven novels and twenty-two anthologies. His latest anthology, Robots Through the Ages, was coedited by Robert Silverberg. His near future hard science fiction novel Shortcut releases mid-September.
Brian Gifford is a twenty-five-year military veteran and the proud father of three amazing boys. The product of computer geeks, he was raised in an environment that promoted the free exchange of ideas and opinions, so long as it was understood that his mother was always right. He continues the tradition to this day with his wife, at great cost to his hairline. Brian’s scifi novel The Dark Bringer is forthcoming and several short stories published.
SF Novels: John Cramer’s first hard SF novel Twistor is available online at: https://www.amazon.com/Twistor-John-Cramer/dp/048680450X. His second novel Einstein’s Bridge will be reprinted as an eBook and will be available from Baen Books in May 2023, and its new sequel and his third novel, Fermi’s Question will be similarly available in June 2023. NonFiction: John’s 2016 nonfiction book describing his transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, The Quantum Handshake—Entanglement, Nonlocality, and Transactions, (Springer, January 2016) is available online as a hardcover or eBook at: or https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319246402; Alternate View Columns Online: Electronic reprints of 224 or more of “The Alternate View” columns written by John G. Cramer and previously published in Analog are currently available online at: http://www.npl.washington.edu/av.
Sean CW Korsgaard is a U.S. Army veteran, award-winning freelance journalist, an author of speculative fiction, and member of the editorial staff at Baen Books. His first anthology, Worlds Long Lost, was released in December 2022, as was his debut short story, “Black Box.” He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and child, along with, depending on who you ask, either far too many or far too few books.