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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2015
CONTENT
Serial
"Night Ride to Sunrise", Part 3 of 4 by Stanley Schmidt
Novelettes
"Stonebrood" by Alec Nevalal-Lee
Short Stories
"The Daughters of John Demetrius" by Joe Pitkin
"Butterflies on Barbed Wire" by Marie Vibbert
"The Philistine" by Ted White
"My Father's Crab" by Bruce McAllister
Poems
" How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" by Alan Ira Gordon
Non-Fiction
"Alien Adventures: Rising to the Challenge" by Edward M. Lerner
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2015, Volume CXXXV No. 10
Trevor Quachri, editor
Cover art by Dominic Harman
Serial
"Night Ride to Sunrise", Part 3 of 4 by Stanley Schmidt
Novelettes
"Stonebrood" by Alec Nevalal-Lee
Short Stories
"The Daughters of John Demetrius" by Joe Pitkin
"Butterflies on Barbed Wire" by Marie Vibbert
"The Philistine" by Ted White
"My Father's Crab" by Bruce McAllister
Poems
" How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" by Alan Ira Gordon
Non-Fiction
"Alien Adventures: Rising to the Challenge" by Edward M. Lerner
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2015, Volume CXXXV No. 10
Trevor Quachri, editor
Cover art by Dominic Harman
- GenresScience Fiction
113 pages, ebook
First published August 6, 2015
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About the author
Trevor Quachri
101 books27 followersTrevor Quachri (b. 1976) has been the sixth editor of
Analog Science Fiction & Fact
magazine since September 2012.
Previously, he was “a Broadway stagehand, collected data for museums, and executive produced a science fiction pilot for a basic cable channel.”
Quachri started as an editorial assistant in 1999 at Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog. Former editor of Analog, Ben Bova, was an early influence.
Previously, he was “a Broadway stagehand, collected data for museums, and executive produced a science fiction pilot for a basic cable channel.”
Quachri started as an editorial assistant in 1999 at Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog. Former editor of Analog, Ben Bova, was an early influence.
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September 14, 2015
Not the best group of stories this time around, but a couple things that might be worth your time.
Ranked in order of how much I enjoyed them, we have:
4-Stars
"The Daughters of John Demetrius" by Joe Pitkin
Reminiscent of Roger Zelazny in certain plot aspects, and overall quite enjoyable.
"Stonebrood" by Alec Nevalal-Lee
I didn't really know that underground coal fires were a thing, so I enjoyed this story on the basis of that learning. I also liked the dark history of the protagonist that was slowly revealed. A good story!
3-Stars
"My Father's Crab" by Bruce McAllister
To what lengths will sea-creatures proceed in order to protect their environment? A quick and interesting story.
"The Philistine" by Ted White
A decent yarn about a duplication machine, and a plot to move illicit copies of art masterpieces onto the black market.
2-Stars
"Night Ride and Sunrise" (serial part 3 of 4) by Stanley Schmidt
I'm interested in finishing this off to see how it ends, but this latest episode didn't entice me to raise my score. The aliens are too wholesome (and think in ways that are far too human), and the bad guys are just too wicked. Could the aliens be made more alien-like (and thus harder for the reader to gauge let alone trust)? And could the bad guys be made less vile? The reader has way too much information here and everything is very black and white.
1-Star
"Butterflies on Barbed Wire" by Marie Vibbert
No surprise that I would hate this. An "artsy" story written in the present tense, and involving a bunch of messed up characters for which the reader can find no redeemable quality. And if you take the science out of the story, the story can still exist (otherwise unchanged) and thus find a market in a non-SF magazine. So it really doesn't belong in Analog, at least in my opinion.
Ranked in order of how much I enjoyed them, we have:
4-Stars
"The Daughters of John Demetrius" by Joe Pitkin
Reminiscent of Roger Zelazny in certain plot aspects, and overall quite enjoyable.
"Stonebrood" by Alec Nevalal-Lee
I didn't really know that underground coal fires were a thing, so I enjoyed this story on the basis of that learning. I also liked the dark history of the protagonist that was slowly revealed. A good story!
3-Stars
"My Father's Crab" by Bruce McAllister
To what lengths will sea-creatures proceed in order to protect their environment? A quick and interesting story.
"The Philistine" by Ted White
A decent yarn about a duplication machine, and a plot to move illicit copies of art masterpieces onto the black market.
2-Stars
"Night Ride and Sunrise" (serial part 3 of 4) by Stanley Schmidt
I'm interested in finishing this off to see how it ends, but this latest episode didn't entice me to raise my score. The aliens are too wholesome (and think in ways that are far too human), and the bad guys are just too wicked. Could the aliens be made more alien-like (and thus harder for the reader to gauge let alone trust)? And could the bad guys be made less vile? The reader has way too much information here and everything is very black and white.
1-Star
"Butterflies on Barbed Wire" by Marie Vibbert
No surprise that I would hate this. An "artsy" story written in the present tense, and involving a bunch of messed up characters for which the reader can find no redeemable quality. And if you take the science out of the story, the story can still exist (otherwise unchanged) and thus find a market in a non-SF magazine. So it really doesn't belong in Analog, at least in my opinion.
May 2, 2017
8 • Stonebrood • 18 pages by Alec Nevala-Lee
Good/vg. Marius is on a job to locate underground coal fires. The flashbacks seemed to flow better than the present day story. Pretty good twist.
36 • The Daughters of John Demetrius • 9 pages by Joe Pitkin
Good/VG. Post apocalyptic settings are usually a downgrade for me, but this didn't focus on dismal circumstances, but more a story of hope. Mendel is genetically superior and is looking for others.
46 • Butterflies On Barbed Wire • 6 pages by Marie Vibbert
Good. Damien works in his grandfather's tattoo shop and has been in love with his recently deceased aunt Aubrey.
52 • The Philistine • 7 pages by Ted White
Very Good. Harry works at a duplicator. It destroys the original, saves it as a file that can be used to reconstitute it molecule by molecule. The process is expensive so really only used for great works of art.
64 • My Father's Crab • 5 pages by Bruce McAllister
Good. Brad's father gets nipped by a crab, and every once in a while after that will get sick.
70 • Night Ride and Sunrise (part 3 of 4)• 35 pages by Stanley Schmidt
Good. Sylvie and Goldie visit the human settlement during the day to learn more about them. Phil, Calantha, Hazel and Dick visit the otters and find that the Otters and Bats are just the females and males of the same species. The faction of Breakaway colonists that want to eliminate rather than work with the Zoeys is getting more vocal.
Good/vg. Marius is on a job to locate underground coal fires. The flashbacks seemed to flow better than the present day story. Pretty good twist.
36 • The Daughters of John Demetrius • 9 pages by Joe Pitkin
Good/VG. Post apocalyptic settings are usually a downgrade for me, but this didn't focus on dismal circumstances, but more a story of hope. Mendel is genetically superior and is looking for others.
46 • Butterflies On Barbed Wire • 6 pages by Marie Vibbert
Good. Damien works in his grandfather's tattoo shop and has been in love with his recently deceased aunt Aubrey.
52 • The Philistine • 7 pages by Ted White
Very Good. Harry works at a duplicator. It destroys the original, saves it as a file that can be used to reconstitute it molecule by molecule. The process is expensive so really only used for great works of art.
64 • My Father's Crab • 5 pages by Bruce McAllister
Good. Brad's father gets nipped by a crab, and every once in a while after that will get sick.
70 • Night Ride and Sunrise (part 3 of 4)• 35 pages by Stanley Schmidt
Good. Sylvie and Goldie visit the human settlement during the day to learn more about them. Phil, Calantha, Hazel and Dick visit the otters and find that the Otters and Bats are just the females and males of the same species. The faction of Breakaway colonists that want to eliminate rather than work with the Zoeys is getting more vocal.
January 16, 2019
This is an average issue. There are a few ok stories, but, once again, at least one story feels just like a segment.
Stonebrood • novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
A firefighter is trying to put out a long-lasting coal mine fire. He starts to get a strange feeling and eventually flashbacks from his childhood. He apparently had some very "interesting” experiences as a child. This is not exactly science fiction, aside from some nice bee-like semi-autonomous drones, but it is a well written and nice story nonetheless. ***+
The Daughters of John Demetrius • shortstory by Joe Pitkin
A man travels from village to village teaching elementary agricultural procedures. He encounters a strange girl and tries to help her - or something. This is very hard to get into. It feels just like a slightly condensed chapter ripped randomly from a book. Everything felt pretty cursory, and it was very hard to understand what was going on and why. **-
Butterflies on Barbed Wire • shortstory by Marie Vibbert
Romance in a tattoo shop. A new type of tattoos with unusual technology have arrived, and there is some drama between a son of the owner and a female tattoo artist. This was a bit short and not very interesting. I really hate tattoos, and I think that only people with a herd mentality take them. **½
The Philistine • shortstory by Ted White
An artist cleans up classic paintings before they are copied with a new 3D-copier, which makes perfect recordings of objects (and utterly destroys them in the process). He cleans up and restores the paintings before they are copied and destroyed. (I wonder why they had to be cleaned. If the copies are "perfect", the cleaning would be easier afterwards, when it would be safer to use a wider variety of techniques. He gets an offer which is hard to refuse: a LOT of money for copying the information of a couple of pieces of art. This is not bad, but nothing really special. ***
My Father's Crab • shortstory by Bruce McAllister
As young man protagonist's father is bitten by a strange crab, he fells sick. Sometimes something almost seems to be moving under his skin. This is a nice story, but not unusual. However, it is well written, and it could have been longer. ***+
Stonebrood • novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
A firefighter is trying to put out a long-lasting coal mine fire. He starts to get a strange feeling and eventually flashbacks from his childhood. He apparently had some very "interesting” experiences as a child. This is not exactly science fiction, aside from some nice bee-like semi-autonomous drones, but it is a well written and nice story nonetheless. ***+
The Daughters of John Demetrius • shortstory by Joe Pitkin
A man travels from village to village teaching elementary agricultural procedures. He encounters a strange girl and tries to help her - or something. This is very hard to get into. It feels just like a slightly condensed chapter ripped randomly from a book. Everything felt pretty cursory, and it was very hard to understand what was going on and why. **-
Butterflies on Barbed Wire • shortstory by Marie Vibbert
Romance in a tattoo shop. A new type of tattoos with unusual technology have arrived, and there is some drama between a son of the owner and a female tattoo artist. This was a bit short and not very interesting. I really hate tattoos, and I think that only people with a herd mentality take them. **½
The Philistine • shortstory by Ted White
An artist cleans up classic paintings before they are copied with a new 3D-copier, which makes perfect recordings of objects (and utterly destroys them in the process). He cleans up and restores the paintings before they are copied and destroyed. (I wonder why they had to be cleaned. If the copies are "perfect", the cleaning would be easier afterwards, when it would be safer to use a wider variety of techniques. He gets an offer which is hard to refuse: a LOT of money for copying the information of a couple of pieces of art. This is not bad, but nothing really special. ***
My Father's Crab • shortstory by Bruce McAllister
As young man protagonist's father is bitten by a strange crab, he fells sick. Sometimes something almost seems to be moving under his skin. This is a nice story, but not unusual. However, it is well written, and it could have been longer. ***+
August 30, 2015
Storys mittel, Essayteil toll.
November 25, 2015
2.5/5.0
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