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March/April 2024

In our March/April issue, we have some real bangers, including a long novella from David Gerrold that shows just what one small but highly motivated group can do when left with no alternative, in “Ganny Goes to War”; a look at a future in which consumers have finally had “Enough,” from William Ledbetter; the next chapter in the (mis)adventures of a certain amorphous shape-shifter, in Auston Habershaw’s “Brood Parasitism”; a survey of the current state of epigenetics, both in real life and SF, by Kelly Lagor; a couple of tax/prank season-appropriate stories from Don D’Ammassa and John W. Armstrong; and much, much more, from Gregor Hartmann, Romi Stott, Adam-Troy Castro, Deborah L. Davitt, and others.

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NOVELETTE

Enough
by William Ledbetter

Under normal circumstances, the blank canvas of a freshly painted wall—like the one I faced on Third Street next to the interstate—would invoke both anticipation and a little dread. But tonight, I hadn’t come to share my art, only a small but important message. Tiny drips of water can eventually create an ocean.

I sized up the wall from shadows across the street. Selected not only for its visibility, the wall had symbolic value. Five protestors had been stood against that wall and shot during the first week after the government takeover. The bullet holes and chipped concrete were muted, but still visible under the fresh white paint.  READ MORE

SHORT STORY

A Long Journey into Light
by Deborah L. Davitt

Twenty years had passed since Ae‘ahauka‘e, the Wanderer, had first entered the Solar System from the top down, passing through the plane of the ecliptic near Uranus. Twenty years since Dominic Vadas, then the furthest human from the rest of humanity, had boarded the extrasolar object, finding that it was not, in fact, a rogue asteroid or chunk of space rock, but some form of alien space craft.

A nervous Earth had watched its silent progress through the outer planets for two decades, wondering if the device was some form of weapon. UNSCA, the U.N. Space Control Agency, had advised caution. “The microbes taken from storage on Ae‘ahauka‘e were all demonstrated to thrive in an anaerobic environment,” scientists asserted repeatedly. “The chances that they would be useful to any civilization on a planet like Earth is extraordinarily unlikely.” READ MORE

POETRY

Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691)
by Jessy Randall

You can reduce my brother’s law
to a marshmallow exploding under glass, READ MORE

DEPARTMENTS

Guest Editorial: AI Media vs. Human Imagination: Deathmatch?
by Brian Gifford

There are two questions central to the stories and science fact articles that fill Analog’s pages and keep readers coming back every issue: “What if” and “Why not?” Human imagination is what drives our desire to express the worlds that might be or might have been; the things we might have done or may eventually do. “What if?” and “Why not?” are the mantras that move both creative expression and science forward. The only limitations to the fidelity with which we can bring the answers to life are our talent and the tools available to us. But what if the future includes machines that help to bring our imagination to fruition, or why not develop totally new ways creativity might be expressed? READ MORE


Alternate View: Defending Against Killer Asteroids
by John G. Cramer

On Thursday, July 13, 2023, a sizable undetected asteroid (subsequently named “2023 NT1”) was headed for the Earth from the direction of the Sun and just missed a collision. It passed within ~100,000 kilometers, about three times further out than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites. Because the Sun is an astronomical blind spot, this very close encounter with near-Earth asteroid 2023 NT1 wasn’t discovered and tracked until two days after the near miss. READ MORE


Reference Library
by Rosemary Claire Smith

After a full year spent calling a bunch of wondrous books to your attention, I find myself wrestling with two questions. First, have those in charge of Analog secretly accelerated the passage of time? More importantly, do I read differently these days than when I was simply a reader and a writer? Yes, I do. For one thing, now I hunt for snippets to pique your interest, or if nothing else, to provide a decent indication of what’s between the covers and whether it merits being piled atop your formidable To Be Read stack. I also look for connections—dare I say themes—lest I bombard you with a hodgepodge of random books, hit or miss. Various themes have run through science fiction for decades. One of the aspects I like the most about the genre is the way recent works build on what went before, supplying new insights and twists on long-standing themes. READ MORE


BIOLOG: Gregor Hartmann
by Richard A. Lovett

Many science fiction writers write a lot of stories when they are young, fail to sell them, set writing aside to pursue rent-paying careers, then come back years later to find the success that had previously eluded them.  READ MORE


Upcoming Events
by Anthony Lewis

Check here for the latest conventions upcoming in March and April. READ MORE

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