Authors in this Issue
“Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten” by Adam-Troy Castro
Adam-Troy Castro’s 31 books include 15 novels and two recent story collections, A Touch of Strange and The Author’s Wife vs. the Giant Robot and Other Stories. Two of his novellas, “The Funeral March of the Marionettes” and “The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes” are this year being released as stand-alone volumes in France. He has been nominated for 2 Hugos, 3 Stokers, 8 Nebulas and one World Fantasy Award, and has won the Seiun and the Philip K. Dick award.
“The Compromise” by Tom R. Pike
Tom R. Pike is a research analyst who studies the climate crisis, and the economic and political systems that created it. He writes folk tales and morality plays for the Anthropocene Age. Thanks to Elaine Wang for her help translating the Mandarin text.
“Carter’s Refugio” by Hayden Trenholm
Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning editor, playwright, novelist, and short story writer. His first novel, A Circle of Birds, won the 3-Day Novel Writing competition. His trilogy, The Steele Chronicles, were each nominated for an Aurora Award. His most recent novel, The Passion of Ivan Rodriguez was published in 2023. Hayden has won five Aurora Awards. In 2022 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame. He lives with his wife and fellow writer, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, in Ottawa.
“Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling” by David Goodman
David Goodman is a novelist and short story writer based in East Lothian, Scotland. His debut novel, A Reluctant Spy, is out from Headline Books on September 12th 2024. He has been previously published in Clarkesworld and Analog magazines, but also writes in a range of other genres, from spy novels to space operas. He is represented by Harry Illingworth of DHH Literary. Learn more and subscribe to his monthly newsletter at www.davidgoodman.net.
“Gaiatosis” by Andrew Sullivan
Andrew lives in Canberra, Australia, with his wife and two children. He works as a research scientist leading a team studying the behavior of wildfires. In his spare time he collects modern first editions, especially SF, and writes fiction. He has published several short stories in various venues as well as a novel, A Sunburnt Country (Ginninderra Press, 2003). “Gaiatosis” is Andrew’s second story to appear in Analog.
“Bad Cop, No Donut” by Ryan Hunke
Ryan Hunke is an Army veteran, aspiring writer and future teacher. He’s currently finishing his creative thesis “Shrap[no]babble” to earn his M.A. at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. Connect with him on Twitter @rehunke, he’d love to hear from you!
“The Fyootch” by Wil McCarthy
Aerospace engineer/startup founder Wil McCarthy, formerly of Wired and the SyFy channel, has won the Prometheus award once and the AnLab award twice. He’s been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick awards, and Discover Magazine rated his world of “P2/Sorrow” one of the 10 best fictional planets of all time. He has appeared in Analog and Asimov’s, and his bestselling novels include New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com “Best of Y2K” The Collapsium, and most recently, Rich Man’s Sky. He has also written for TV and video games, and published copious nonfiction. McCarthy holds 31 issued U.S. patents.
“Discorporation” by Mar Vincent
As a fine art professional, Mar has wielded katanas and handled Lady Gaga’s shoes. As a veterinary assistant, she has cared for hairless cats, hedgehogs, and, one time, a coyote. As a writer, her short fiction can be found or is forthcoming in Analog, Escape Pod, Apex’s Robotic Ambitions anthology, and many other publications. She is a reader for Interstellar Flight Press, and a graduate of the Wayward Wormhole. She resides in the Pacific Northwest or can be found on various social media @MaroftheBooks.
“The Space in Between” by Brenda Kalt
Brenda Kalt’s first Analog story appeared in 2019. “The Space In Between” is her seventh publication there (thanks, Trevor!). Her career includes stints as a library assistant, technical writer, programmer, and software tester. She enjoys gardening and has published crochet patterns. Brenda was born in Arkansas and lives with her husband and cat in central North Carolina.
“Sleeping Giant” by Kedrick Brown
Kedrick Brown, now residing in Boston, MA, believes in the power of stories to inspire amazing forms of human cooperation. He debuted in science fiction with the story “The Actor,” winner of the inaugural Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices. He is also published in F&SF.
“The Ones Who Refuse to Walk Away” by Andrea Kriz
Andrea Kriz is a PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, currently doing research in brain genetics. Her short fiction has also appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Asimov’s Science Fiction and been translated into French in Galaxies SF. Her debut short story collection, Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism, was published by Interstellar Flight Press in May 2024. You can find her online at https://andreakriz.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @theworldshesaw.
“A Stream of Leaves” by Tony Ballantyne
Tony Ballantyne is the author of the Dream World, Penrose, and Recursion novels as well as many acclaimed short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies around the world. He has been nominated for the BSFA and Philip K Dick awards. His latest book is Midway: literature, fantasy and science fiction come together in an original and very personal work.
“The Circimambulation” by James Van Pelt
James Van Pelt writes full-time in western Colorado. He has coached swim teams, taught high school and college English, and enjoys the hiking trails near his home. His work has appeared numerous times in Analog, Asimov’s, and other venues. He has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (now the Astounding Award), and been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies. He hangs out on Facebook and loves chatting with fans and writers.
“Transitive Property of Names” by Mark W. Tiedemann
Mark W. Tiedemann has been publishing stories since 1990. His novel Compass Reach was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award and Remains for the Tiptree. As of this year, he has sold over 70 short stories and published 13 books. A native St. Louisan, he has actually set two novels in his home town, the novel Realtime and his new book from Blank Slate Press, Granger’s Crossing. The latter is (shock!) Not Science Fiction, but an historical novel set in the 1780s. He still lives in St. Louis.
“Firegrounds” by Jen Downes
Jen Downes trained as a beautician and has worked as a copy editor, commercial artist and caregiver to the frail aged. After more than fifty years as an avid reader she now writes with the same enthusiasm. She traveled extensively in Alaska, Canada, and the UK, and lived most of her life in and around the city of Adelaide, South Australia, where several future stories will be set. Jen’s work has appeared in Analog, Shoreline of Infinity, Mythic, Dim Shores Presents, and others.
“Starburst” by Megan Hyland
Meghan Hyland is a transgender science fiction writer living in the Pacific Northwest. Currently, she is safe, warm, and fed, none of which prevent her from writing very slowly. Several of her stories have appeared in Analog, and one is printed in Queer Sci Fi’s flash fiction anthology, Rise. You can also find her story “My Robot Body” in the Neon Hemlock Press anthology, Embodied Exegesis.
“Fast Women, Loose Lips, and Treasure Ships” by Josh Pearce
Josh Pearce has more than 100 stories, reviews, and poems appearing in a wide variety of magazines, including in Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, Diabolical Plots, Locus, Nature, On Spec, Weird Horror, and elsewhere. Find more of his writing at fictionaljosh.com. One time, Ken Jennings signed his chest.
“Sex and Lies on the Internet of Things” by Filip Wiltgren
By day, Filip Wiltgren is a mild-mannered communication officer and lecturer. By night, he turns into a frenzied ten-fingered typist, clawing out jagged stories of fantasy and science fiction, which have found lairs in places such as Analog, IGMS, Grimdark, Daily SF, and Nature Futures. Filip roams the Swedish highlands, kept in check by his wife and kids. His books, thoughts, email, and free stories can be found at www.wiltgren.com. If you’ve got any comments or feedback about this story, he’d enjoy hearing it!
“It’s the Principle of the Thing” by Tim McDaniel
Tim McDaniel’s short stories, mostly comedic, have appeared in a number of SF/F magazines, including F&SF and Asimov’s. He lives with his wife, dog, and cat, and his collection of plastic dinosaurs is the envy of all who encounter it. His author page at Amazon.com is https://www.amazon.com/author/tim-mcdaniel
“Unfutured Race: Neanderthal Science and Fiction” by Kelly Lagor
Kelly Lagor is a scientist by day and science fiction writer by night. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various places and she blogs about all kinds of nonsense at kellylagor.com.
“Finding the Enemy: Did Doc Smith Inspire the CIC?” by Edward M. Wysocki Jr.
Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. is currently focused on writing a sequel to his book Out of This World Ideas: And the Inventions They Inspired. He continues to search for additional provable cases of the inspiration of inventions by works of science fiction. At the same time, he is also searching for suitable topics that will lead to more articles for Analog. His website is https://www.emwysocki.com.
Guest Editorial: Hitting the “Off’” Switch by Richard A. Lovett
Richard A. Lovett is one of the most prolific contributors in Analog history (by his count, this is his 205thappearance in these pages). He is also a self-described “policy wonk”—a probable result of the fact that his educational background has left him with a foot in two different camps. One is science (his undergraduate degree is astrophysics). The other is public policy (based on the combination of a law degree and a Ph.D. in economics). For the last 35 years, he’s made most of his career as newspaper and magazine writer, a field in which the primary goal is to help one group of people (the readers) understand what another group is saying. “I see myself as a translator,” he says.
Alternate View: Dark Matter Deniers by John G. Cramer
Electronic reprints of 207 or more “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.
The Reference Library by Sean C.W. Korsgaard
Sean CW Korsgaard is a U.S. Army veteran, award-winning freelance journalist, author, editor, and publicist who has worked with Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Baen Books, and Writers of the Future, and recently became the editor of Anvil and Battleborn magazines. 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.