Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. 84, No. 3, November 1969

Astounding/Analog

by John W. Campbell Jr. (Editor), John Dalmas

Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3.

Contents:
4 • 7/20/69 • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell]
8 • Gottlos • novelette by Colin Kapp
47 • In Times to Come (Analog, November 1969) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by The Editor
48 • Telepathy - Did It Happen? • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by J. B. Reswick and L. Vodonik
61 • Weapon of the Ages • short story by W. Macfarlane
67 • English Is a Subtle Language • essay by uncredited
68 • The Ambassadors • novelette by J. Brian Clarke [as by J. B. Clarke]
98 • Shapes to Come • short story by Edward Wellen
104 • The Yngling (Part 2 of 2) • [The Yngling Saga • 1] • serial by John Dalmas
164 • The Analytical Laboratory: August 1969 (Analog, November 1969) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by The Editor
165 • The Reference Library: Four-Letter Science Fiction (Analog, November 1969) • [The Reference Library] • essay by P. Schuyler Miller
172 • Brass Tacks & Letters.

180 pages, digest magazine

First published November 1, 1969

About the author

John Wood Campbell, Jr. was an influential figure in American science fiction. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact), from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction.

Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely."

As a writer, Campbell published super-science space opera under his own name and moody, less pulpish stories as Don A. Stuart. He stopped writing fiction after he became editor of Astounding.

Known Pseudonyms/Alternate Names:

Don A. Stuart
Karl van Campen
John Campbell
J. W. C., Jr.
John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell

Reviews

[Lenford Wickham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing short stories. Gottlos and Shapes to come are 5/5. The ambassadors and Yngling are good but a little lacking ending wise.

[Kevin Phyland · Rating 3 out of 5]

When the giant remote-controlled warmec Fiendish is systematically dismantled, with ease, by an opposition machine known as “Gottlos”, the means of its direction and motivations becomes the prime concern of Fiendish’s human controller Manton, and his handlers in Colin Kapp’s tale. A revelation happens when Gottlos seeks out Manton with no intent to destroy him. “The Ambassadors” in J. B. Clarke’s tale arrive on Earth in a refurbished starship not of their making. They claim to be from the Golan Empire and wish to join the Terran Web of planets, but the Terran authorities get suspicious when they make a trip to their supposed seat of empire and find less than superior technology. Project Love is launched from the Moon to inhabited planets all over the galactic quadrant. Designed to seed spores carrying genetic instructions to accept human faces as reassuring, it comes just a little too late for the approaching aliens in “Shapes To Come” by Edward Wellen. Closing the issue is the second half of “The Yngling” by John Dalmas (Jones) where we find neoviking Nils Järnhand discovering he is one of the Kinfolk, a small group of humans with psi powers. I have reviewed the novel version of this in detail elsewhere.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun read. Gottlos definitely ended differently than how I expected, but it was a great comment on the relationship between man and machines. It was also interesting to see how 40-year old takes on the "future" could be so far off...or eerily accurate.