David H. > Recent Status Updates

Naming the Flowers - Wilhelm: This was *almost* a wonderful freakin' story, but that one scene, ugh.

Snodgrass - MacLeod: An alternate Lennon that left the Beatles before they made it big. Don't read if you don't care about the Beatles.

By the Mirror of My Youth - Koja: Clone type story, but confusing.

Outnumbering the Dead - Pohl: This *was* a wonderful freakin' story, it really hit for me.

Naming Names - Cadigan: Almost wonderful fantasy.

The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa - Lethem & Jager: Satire, I guess.

The Territory - Denton: A subtle alternate-history with Mark Twain during the Civil War.

The Best and the Rest of James Joyce - McDonald: If I knew anything about James Joyce, I might have liked this, but very tough story to immerse myself in.

Gravity's Angel - Maddox: Somewhat dated, a male physicist finally realizes how sexist his workplace is.

Protection - McHugh: Well-written but depressing story about an American labor/reeducation camp.

The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee - Barrett, Jr.: A funny/sad 'play' about a dark future.

Birth Day - Reed: An interesting future where the AIs give humans a present on their "birth day."

The Hammer of God - Clarke: What if an asteroid might be on the way? Easy fix, I guess.

Grownups - MacLeod: An alternate world with a third gender, and a stranger childhood.

Graves - Haldeman: Fantastic Vietnam War ghost story.

The Glowing Cloud - Utley: All that for what? Annoyingly written time-travel story.

Two Guys from the Future - Bisson: An artist has her gallery and there's a time travel paradox.

The Mountain to Mohammed - Kress: Depressing look at a future where genetic discrimination is allowed.

The Coming of Vertumnus - Watson: Initially interesting but turns into a dreamlike mess by the end.

A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple - Silverberg: In the far future, a temple priest loses his faith, or does he?

Griffin's Egg - Swanwick: Reread. A crisis on the Moon leads to self-programming.

Even the Queen - Willis: Silly story about a future without the need for periods.

The Round-Eyed Barbarians - de Camp: Alternate history story where the Chinese met the Spanish in Mexico. Meh.

Dust - Egan: The twist at the end was interesting but I found it stupid, with the possibility I'm the dumb one -- or not high enough for this.

Polimander's Man-Thing - de Graw: Alien assembles a psychic hearing aid for his 'deaf' baby. Interesting.

The Reference Library: Again . . . - Miller: Reviews of Again, Dangerous Visions, a Pohl collection, Stepford Wives, and some fan research

Brass Tacks: Letters. Most of them are praising or complaining about the Buckminster Fuller profile from Sept. '72.

Moon Rocks - Purdom: A soldier on the Moon considers violating the biggest taboo when he's caught.

Not Polluted Enough - Scithers: A very silly story about the "usefulness" of DDT.

The People of the Wind (Part 3/3) - Anderson: The end! The insurgency appears to work and things are resolved. Sad that it's taken till now for me to truly like a serialized novel since I started this project.

Editorial: Welfare Farewell - Bova: Musings about welfare and the Protestant work ethic, with a turn towards promoting Negative Income Tax.

Earthquake - Cochrane: An earthquake detection team on a new colony planet experiences both earthquakes and human stupidity.

Science Fact: Paraphysics and Parapsychology - Beal: Sigh. Pseudoscience nonsense.

The People of the Wind (Part 2/3) - Anderson: War begins, and ends. Or does it?

Open Letter to the Readers of Analog - Ruston: A plea from Conde Nast chairman to readers to write to Congress due to USPS's new rates.

The Reference Library: Materia Medica - Miller: Medical SF stories, +a review of a Koontz novel and Silverberg's New Dimensions 1.

Brass Tacks: Letters. Mostly about his August editorial.

Science Fact: The Eyes Have It - MacDonald: Article about optical processing, etc.

He Fell Into a Dark Hole - Pournelle: The black hole science is hilariously wrong (I'm not sure they had officially identified any black holes in space yet). Story is fine, rescuing people missing for 5 years.

Hard Workers Only - Roberts: A man write a letter to fiancee that he got a job that will take him away - silly twist at end.

Editorial: Law & Order - Bova: He muses about freedom of the seas and freedom of space, and the role of international law.

Who Steals My Purse - Brunner: It's just one week until the President's deadline for conflict with a Southeast Asian country. Vietnam War-coded, but with a twist.

Death of God - Brennan: A group of British soldiers find more than they bargained for in Tibet in 1904.

Force Over Distance - Hallus: Physicist forced to construct teleporter for Mexican revolutionary, has regrets.

Trade-Off - Beaumont: To save the ocean, we have to nuke the pollution site. Dumb.

The Reference Library: The SF Screen - Miller: Reviews on film books, & books by Cooper, Brunner, Silverberg, del Rey, & van Vogt.

Brass Tacks: Letters.6 of 8 letters on a 1972 automotive plant science article.

The Guy with the Eyes - Robinson: His debut story, and it's the first Callahan's Crosstime Saloon story. It's surprisingly good.

Modus Vivendi - Walling: Space survival with a twist. Gotta breathe somehow!

Science Fact: The Third Industrial Revolution (Part 2/2) - Stine: Overly optimistic vision of space industry.

Guest Editorial: Beyond the Citizen - Cleveland: An incredibly stupid editorial, a "sequel" to an old Campbell editorial.

The People of the Wind (Part 1/3) - Anderson: Fascinating beginning to a story of a multi-species planet (humans & Ythri) awaiting an invasion by the Terran Empire.

Biological Peacefare - Macfarlane: A mutated insect escapes the lab, targets passionate humans so everyone must remain calm.

Jack - Willis: One of the air raid wardens during the London Blitz is a little different from the rest.

La Macchina - Beckett: What if you really hated robots in Italy?

One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - Resnick: Reread. Koriba is an asshole to his son in yet another Kirinyaga story.

Desert Rain - Van Name & Murphy: What if you had a ChatGPT boyfriend but you wrote the story in 1991?

Pogrom - Kelly: Boomer generational anxiety in a short story!

The Moat - Egan: Incredibly Australian in an interesting way.

Voices - Dann: Great story about 2 kids and death.

FOAM - Aldiss: A story that plays with memory and history.

A Walk in the Sun - Landis: A survival story on the moon--keep on walking.

Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria - McDonald: Well, that's depressing.

Angels in Love - Koja: Horny AF.

Eyewall - Shelley: Could this *be* any more of an Analog story?

Matter's End - Benford: Assessing a new physics experiment, but has a dumb ending.

A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations - Robinson: Who doesn't want to avoid work by running away to Scotland?

Gene Wars - McAuley: Genetic engineering run amok.

The Gallery of His Dreams - Rusch: A Civil War photographer sees a future. Devastating and bittersweet.