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Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v137 #5 & 6, May/June 2017] ed. Trevor Quachri (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) fc. · Region NGC 6357 · NASA · cv 4 · Guest Editorial: Science Fiction and the Virtue of Simplicity · Richard A. Lovett · ed 8 · The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes [Sifters] · Howard Hendrix · na; illustrated by Kevin Speidell 46 · Alien Archaeology: Searching for the Fingerprint of Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations · Michael Carroll · ar 55 · Strangers · Allina Nunley · pm 56 · To See the Elephant · Julie Novakova · nv; illustrated by Vincent DiFate 70 · The Chatter of Monkeys · Bond Elam · ss 79 · A Grand Gesture · Dave Creek · ss 86 · Decrypted · Eric Choi · ss 92 · Seven Ways to Fall in Love with an Astronaut · Dominica Phetteplace · vi 96 · Focus · Gord Sellar · ss 102 · Ténéré · Manny Frishberg & Edd Vick · ss; illustrated by Joel Iskowitz 112 · The Final Nail · Stanley Schmidt · nv 130 · The Speed of Faith in Vacuum · Igor Teper · ss 139 · Facebook Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate It · Sam Schreiber · ss 144 · Vulture’s Nest · Marissa Lingen · ss 148 · In the Mists · Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg · vi 152 · The Return · Bud Sparhawk · vi 154 · The Alternate View: Our Leaking Universe · John G. Cramer · cl 156 · In Times to Come · Anon. · ms 157 · Lips Together · Ken Brady · vi 160 · The Banffs · Lavie Tidhar · ss 164 · Where the Flock Wanders · Andrew Barton · ss 170 · Proteus · Joe Pitkin · ss 179 · Our Religious Conversion · Ken Poyner · pm 180 · Kepler’s Law · Jay Werkheiser · nv; illustrated by Kurt Huggins 199 · The Reference Library · Don Sakers · rc _200 · Post, Brenda Cooper; eSpec Books, 241pp, $14.95, tp, ISBN: 978-1-942990-22-2 · Don Sakers · br _201 · Lost Among the Stars, Paul Di Filippo; WordFire, 201pp, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-61475-465-7 · Don Sakers · br _201 · Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel, Daniel M. Kimmel; Fantastic Books, 189pp, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5154-0052-3 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Cosmic Fusion, Gordon Eklund; Wildside Press, 526pp, $19.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4794-2385-9 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Version Control, Dexter Palmer; Vintage Books, 495pp, $16.95, tp, ISBN: 978-0-307-95035-2 · Don Sakers · br _203 · If This Goes Wrong..., ed. Hank Davis; Baen, 351pp, $7.99, pb, ISBN: 978-1-47678202-7 · Don Sakers · br _204 · This Census-Taker, China Miéville; Del Rey, 224pp, $15.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-101-96734-8 · Don Sakers · br 205 · Brass Tacks · [The Readers] · lc _205 · [letter] · Jack Ryan · lt _205 · [letter from Colchester, CT] · Jim Hall · lt _205 · [letter from St. Louis, MO] · David Phelps · lt __206 · [response to David Phelps] · Mark Niemann-Ross · ms _206 · [letter from Gardnerville, NV] · Pete Harding · lt _206 · [letter] · Les Platt · lt _206 · [letter from Clifton Springs, NY] · James R. Cook · lt _207 · [letter from Littleton, CO] · Allan Sutton · lt _207 · [letter] · Tony Dwyer · lt 208 · Upcoming Events · Anthony Lewis · cl

Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v137 #7 & 8, July/August 2017] ed. Trevor Quachri (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest, cover by Rado Javor) 4 · Guest Editorial: Mars Needs Children · Rosemary Claire Smith · ed 8 · Analytical Laboratory Results · Anon. · cl 10 · Not Far Enough [Captain Nick Aames] · Martin L. Shoemaker · na 46 · The Science Behind “The Final Nail” · H. G. Stratmann, M.D. · ar 58 · The Fool’s Stone · Aubry Kae Andersen · ss; illustrated by Josh Meehan 70 · The First Rule Is, You Don’t Eat Your Friends · Robert R. Chase · ss 80 · Alouette, Gentille Alouette · Andrew Barton · ss 84 · Fat Bubble · Tom Easton · vi 86 · Perspective · Kyle Kirkland · ss 95 · A Theory of Gravity · Josh Pearce · pm 96 · For All Mankind · C. Stuart Hardwick · nv; illustrated by Vincent DiFate 116 · Clarity of Signal · Holly Schofield · ss; illustrated by Kurt Huggins 124 · Space Junk · Bruce Boston · pm 125 · Belly Up [Imbra Tems] · Maggie Clark · nv 140 · Probability Zero: A Little Spooky Action · Howard V. Hendrix · vi 142 · Pitch · Bruce McAllister & Patrick Smith · vi 144 · The Alternate View: Why Does Matter Exist? · John G. Cramer · cl 147 · Phuquiang: A History · Uncle River · ss 152 · Blinking Noon and Midnight · Tim McDaniel · vi 155 · In Times to Come · Anon. · ms 156 · Teamwork · Eve Warren · vi 159 · Often and Silently We Come · Ron Collins · ss 166 · Galleon · Brian Trent · nv 178 · Across the Steaming Sea · Rob Chilson · nv; illustrated by Joel Iskowitz 199 · The Reference Library · Don Sakers · rc _200 · Amatka, Karin Tidbeck; Vintage, 216pp, $15.95, tp, ISBN: 978-1-101-97395-0 · Don Sakers · br _201 · Radiate, C.A. Higgins; Del Rey, 317pp, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-553-39448-1 · Don Sakers · br _201 · Shadow Run, AdriAnne Strickland and Michael Miller; Random House, 400pp, $17.99, hc, ISBN: 978-0-399-55253-3 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Cold Welcome, Elizabeth Moon; Del Rey, 431pp, $28.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-101-99731-8 · Don Sakers · br _203 · Who Is Willing?, M.C.A. Hogarth; Studio MCAH, 139pp, iBooks, Kindle, Nook: $2.99 (e-book) · Don Sakers · br _203 · Extracted, R.R. Haywood; 47 North, 402pp, $9.00, tp · Don Sakers · br _204 · Little Green Men—Attack!, ed. Robin Wayne Bailey and Bryan Thomas Schmidt; Baen, 292pp, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4767-8213-3 · Don Sakers · br _204 · Non-Parallel Universes, Bud Sparhawk; Fantastic Books, 268pp, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5154-1020-1 · Don Sakers · br 206 · Brass Tacks · [The Readers] · lc _206 · [letter] · Brian Renninger · lt __206 · [response to Brian Renninger] · Nick Falkner · ms _206 · [letter from Suffern, NY] · Howard Mark · lt _207 · [letter from Rocky Point, NY] · Doug McGarrett · lt _208 · [letter from Forster NSW, Australia] · John Jenkins · lt ibc. · Upcoming Events · Anthony Lewis · cl

Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v137 #9 & 10, September/October 2017] ed. Trevor Quachri (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) fc. · My Fifth and Most Exotic Voyage · Eldar Zakirov · cv 4 · Guest Editorial: Sci-Fi and Science Fiction · James Gunn · ed 8 · My Fifth and Most Exotic Voyage · Edward M. Lerner · nv 28 · The Quest for the 2:00 Marathon · Richard A. Lovett · ar 36 · I Know My Own & My Own Know Me · Tracy Canfield · nv; illustrated by Kurt Huggins 52 · Ghostmail · Eric Del Carlo · ss 60 · The First Trebuchet on Mars · Marie Vibbert · vi 63 · In Times to Come · Anon. · ms 64 · Climbing Olympus · Simon Kewin · ss 69 · Biolog: Lettie Prell · Richard A. Lovett · bg 70 · Emergency Protocol · Lettie Prell · vi 72 · A Tinker’s Damnation · Jerry Oltion · ss; illustrated by Eldar Zakirov 81 · Free Fall Hunt · Mack Hassler · pm 82 · The Old Man · Rich Larson · nv; illustrated by Josh Meehan 95 · Colony on the Fifth Planet · Bruce McAllister · pm 96 · Orphans · Craig DeLancey · nv 108 · The Absence · Robert R. Chase · ss 116 · Arp! Arp! · Christina De La Rocha · ss 122 · The Alternate View: Alien Microwave Sailing and Fast Radio Bursts · John G. Cramer · cl 125 · Probability Zero: Viktor Frankenstein’s Bar and Grill and Twenty-Four-Hour Roadside Emporium · Michael F. Flynn · vi 128 · The Mathematician · Tom Jolly · ss 132 · Coyote Moon · James Van Pelt · ss 138 · Abductive Reasoning · Christopher L. Bennett · ss; illustrated by Josh Meehan 146 · Invaders · Stanley Schmidt · ss 155 · The Sword of Damocles · Norman Spinrad · nv 170 · Heaven’s Covenant · Bud Sparhawk · na 198 · The Reference Library · Don Sakers · rc _199 · The Massacre of Mankind, Stephen Baxter; Crown, 496pp, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-5247-6012-0 · Don Sakers · br _200 · The Gods of Sagittarius, Mike Resnick & Eric Flint; Baen, 330pp, $25.00, hc · Don Sakers · br _200 · Change Agent, Daniel Suarez; Dutton, 398pp, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-1019-8466-6 · Don Sakers · br _201 · The Gathering Edge, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller; Baen, 368pp, $25.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-4767-8218-8 · Don Sakers · br _202 · The Biggest Bounty, Brian Koscienski and Chris Pisano; Fantastic Books, 250pp, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5154-1015-7 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Eagle and Empire, Alan Smale; Del Rey, 553pp, $30.00, hc, ISBN: 9780-8041-7726-9 · Don Sakers · br _203 · Walking on the Sea of Clouds, Gray Rinehart; WordFire Press, 345pp, $18.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-61475-521-0 · Don Sakers · br _204 · Printer’s Error: An Irreverent History of Books, Rebecca Romney; HarperCollins, 384pp, $26.99, hc, ISBN: 978-0-0624-1231-7 · Don Sakers · br 205 · Brass Tacks · [The Readers] · lc _205 · [letter] · Rick Norwood · lt _205 · [letter] · Bob Dye · lt _205 · [letter] · Jack Courtney · lt _206 · [letter from Bloomington, MN] · Carol Brumwell · lt _206 · [letter from Emeritus Professor of Economics, CSULA] · Neil Garston · lt __206 · [response to Neil Garston] · Stanley Schmidt · ms _207 · [letter from Rancho Cordova, CA] · John Vester · lt __207 · [response to John Vester] · Stanley Schmidt · ms _207 · [letter] · Anon. · lt 208 · Upcoming Events · Anthony Lewis · cl

Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v137 #11 & 12, November/December 2017] ed. Trevor Quachri (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest, cover by Marianne Plumridge Eggleton) 4 · Editorial: The Devil’s Advocates or This Magazine Kills Fascists · Trevor Quachri · ed 8 · Hybrid, Blue, by Firelight [Martin and Artie] · Bill Johnson · nv; illustrated by Joel Iskowitz 28 · Fatal Starlight · Paul Fisher · ar 35 · Keepsakes · Kenneth Schneyer · nv 50 · Laminated Moose Zombies and Other Road Maintenance Problems · Dennis M. & Michael F. Flynn · ss; illustrated by Kevin Speidell 59 · New Planet Landscape 19 · Ken Poyner · pm 60 · Downsized · Bud Sparhawk · ss 68 · New Teeth · James Sallis · vi 72 · Luscinia · Robert Reed · vi 75 · Quantum Entanglement · Fred D. White · pm 76 · Fermi’s Slime · Tom Jolly · ss; illustrated by Josh Meehan 82 · Quirks · Marie Vibbert · ss 87 · Biolog: Marie Vibbert · Richard A. Lovett · bg 88 · Time Travel Is Only for the Poor · S. L. Huang · ss 98 · Papoose Lake · Richard A. Lovett · ss 104 · Probability Zero: The Pilgrimage · Edward M. Lerner · vi 105 · In Times to Come · Anon. · ms 106 · The Alternate View: Dark Matter Gets Darker: WIMPs or Axions? · John G. Cramer · cl 109 · Hot Air · Igor Teper · ss 114 · Kindle No Flame · Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer · ss 119 · Two Hours at Frontier · Sean McMullen · ss 130 · Reentry · Brendan DuBois · ss 140 · Weaponized · Jay O’Connell · vi 144 · Housekeeping, 100 XP · Brenta Blevins · ss 148 · And Then They Were Gone · Ian Creasey · ss 155 · How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement · Scott Edelman · nv 168 · Native Seeds · Catherine Wells · na; illustrated by Vincent DiFate 197 · The Reference Library · Don Sakers · rc _197 · All the Wonder That Would Be: Exploring Past Notions of the Future, Stephen Webb; Springer, 344pp, $24.99, tp, ISBN: 978-3-3195-1758-2 · Don Sakers · br _198 · Science Fiction by Scientists, ed. Michael Brotherton; Springer, 214pp, $19.99, tp, ISBN: 978-3-3194-1102-6 · Don Sakers · br _198 · Kismet, Watts Martin; Argyll Productions, 331pp, $17.95, tp, ISBN: 978-1-6145-0339-2 · Don Sakers · br _199 · Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn; Houghton Mifflin, 272pp, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-0-5449-4730-6 · Don Sakers · br _199 · Moon Beam, Travis S. Taylor and Jody Lynn Nye; Baen, 320pp, $18.99, hc, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8252-3 · Don Sakers · br _200 · The Hematophages, Stephen Kozeniewski; Sinister Grin Press, 326pp, $15.99, tp, ISBN: 978-01-9440-4455-8 · Don Sakers · br _201 · The Hot War: Armistice, Harry Turtledove; Del Rey, 430pp, $28.99, hc, ISBN: 978-0-5533-9076-6 · Don Sakers · br _201 · The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF: Volume 3, ed. David Afsharirad; Baen, 336pp, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8268-4 · Don Sakers · br _201 · Red Vengeance, Brendan DuBois; Baen, 320pp, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8249-3 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Leigh Bardugo; Random House, 384pp, $18.99, hc, ISBN: 978-0-3995-4973-1 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Forever On, Rob Reid; Del Rey, 560pp, $28.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-1018-8270-2 · Don Sakers · br 204 · Brass Tacks · [The Readers] · lc _204 · [letter from Visalia, CA] · Dennis Anthony · lt _204 · [letter] · Tom Easton · lt _204 · [letter] · Merritt Winner · lt _204 · [letter from Winter Haven, FL] · Bob Hubbard · lt _204 · [letter] · Mel Anthony · lt _205 · [letter from Philadelphia, PA] · Luke Davis · lt _205 · [letter] · Edward Blackburne · lt _206 · [letter] · Lester Platt · lt 208 · Upcoming Events · Anthony Lewis · cl

Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v138 #1 & 2, January/February 2018] ed. Trevor Quachri (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest) fc. · The Quantum Magician · Josh Meehan · cv 4 · Guest Editorial: Educational Challenge · Stanley Schmidt · ed 8 · The Quantum Magician [Part 1 of 3; Quantum Magician Universe] · Derek Künsken · sl 60 · Hell Is Other Planets · Julie Novakova · ar 66 · The Journeyman: Through Madness Gap [Journeyman] · Michael F. Flynn · nv; illustrated by Tomislav Tikulin 88 · Hobson’s Choices · Mary A. Turzillo · ss 96 · Ten and Ten · Alan Dean Foster · ss 102 · Probability Zero: Margin of Error · Paul Carlson · vi 104 · One to Watch · Andrew Barton · vi 106 · In Times to Come · Anon. · ms 107 · The Alternate View: Do Black Holes Really Exist? · John G. Cramer · cl 110 · Home on the Free Range · Holly Schofield · ss; illustrated by Kurt Huggins 122 · Endless City · David Gerrold · nv 136 · When the Aliens Stop to Bottle · Ian Watson · ss; illustrated by Kevin Speidell 143 · Two Point Three Children · Marissa Lingen · vi 146 · Atomic Numbers · D. A. Xiaolin Spires · pm 148 · Air Gap · Eric Cline · ss 154 · The Dissonant Note · Jeremiah Tolbert · ss; illustrated by Eldar Zakirov 164 · Blurred Lives [John Draiken] · Adam-Troy Castro · na 193 · Wife of a Particle Physicist · Bruce Boston · pm 194 · The Reference Library · Don Sakers · rc _195 · The Rain Never Came, Lachlan Walter; Odyssey, 264pp, $18.95, tp, ISBN: 978-1-9222-0093-8 · Don Sakers · br _196 · Go Forth and Multiply: Twelve Tales of Repopulation, ed. Gordon Van Gelder; Surinam Turtle Press, 300pp, $20.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-6054-3916-7 · Don Sakers · br _196 · Purlieu, Michael Capobianco; Placeholder Press, 254pp, $9.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-9471-5700-2 · Don Sakers · br _197 · The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade, ed. William Ledbetter; Baen, 312pp, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8281-3 · Don Sakers · br _197 · Up the Rainbow: The Complete Short Fiction of Susan Casper, ed. Gardner Dozois; Fantastic Books, 460pp, $34.99, hc, ISBN: 978-1-5154-1027-0, $19.99, tp, 978-1-5154-1028-7 · Don Sakers · br _198 · Otherworld, Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller; Random House, 368pp, $18.99, hc, ISBN: 978-1-1019-3932-1 · Don Sakers · br _199 · The Best of Bova volume III, Ben Bova; Baen, 491pp, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8259-2 · Don Sakers · br _199 · Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark; Knopf, 384pp, $28.00, hc, ISBN: 978-1-1019-4659-6 · Don Sakers · br 201 · Brass Tacks · [The Readers] · lc _201 · [letter] · Paul Bork · lt _201 · [letter from Seal Beach, CA] · Richard M. Boothe · lt _201 · [letter from Fayetteville, AR] · Malcolm K. Cleaveland · lt _202 · [letter] · David Wolff · lt _203 · [letter] · Howard Reinholdt · lt __203 · [response to Howard Reinholdt] · Adam Troy Castro · ms _203 · [letter from Potomac Falls, VA] · Gary Oleson · lt _203 · [letter from Goleta, CA] · John Young · lt 204 · The 2017 Index · Anon. · ix 207 · Analytical Laboratory Ballot · Anon. · ms 208 · Upcoming Events · Anthony Lewis · cl

Analog Science Fiction and Fact [v138 #3 & 4, March/April 2018] ed. Trevor Quachri (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp+, digest, cover by Donato Giancola) 4 · Guest Editorial: Time and Time Again · James Gunn · ed 8 · The Spires · Alec Nevala-Lee · nv; illustrated by Vincent DiFate 25 · Taming the Genie: How Fear of the Atom Threatens Our Future · C. Stuart Hardwick · ar 32 · The Streaming Man · Suzanne Palmer · ss 43 · In Times to Come · Anon. · ms 44 · Razzibot · Rich Larson · ss 48 · The Selves We Leave Behind · Gwendolyn Clare · ss 52 · Beek · Tom Ligon · ss 57 · An Incident on Ishtar · Brian Trent · ss 68 · The Tail Gunner’s Lament · Brendan DuBois · ss; given as “The Tailgunner’s Lament” in the Table of Contents. 83 · Engineered · Bruce McAllister · pp 84 · Sicko · Jerry Oltion · vi 86 · Car Talk · Mary A. Turzillo · vi 89 · The Alternate View: When Virgo Joined LIGO · John G. Cramer · cl 92 · Frog Happy · Bruce McAllister · ss 96 · Sun Splashed Fields and Far Blue Mountains · Susan Forest · ss 103 · Lab B-15 · Nick Wolven · nv 120 · Physics Tomorrow: A News Item of the Year 2116 · Gregory Benford · ss 125 · Probability Zero: The Being · Bill Pronzini · vi 128 · Big Thompson · James Van Pelt · vi 132 · The Camel’s Tail · Tom Jolly · ss; illustrated by Tomislav Tikulin 144 · Biolog: Tom Jolly · Richard A. Lovett · bg 145 · Venus, As It Might Have Been · Mary Soon Lee · pm 146 · The Quantum Magician [Part 2 of 3; Quantum Magician Universe] · Derek Künsken · sl; illustrated by Josh Meehan 199 · The Reference Library · Don Sakers · rc _200 · Artemis, Andy Weir; Crown, 320pp, $27.00, hc, ISBN: 978-0-553-44812-2 · Don Sakers · br _201 · Satellite, Nick Lake; Knopf, 447pp, $17.99, hc, ISBN: 978-1-5247-1353-9 · Don Sakers · br _201 · The Braintrust: A Harmony of Enemies, Marc Stiegler; LMBPM Publishing, 370pp, $9.99, ISBN: 978-1-64202-000-7 · Don Sakers · br _202 · The Unmoving Stars, Dave Creek; CreateSpace, 332pp, $12.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5441-5969-0 · Don Sakers · br _202 · Chanda’s Awakening Part 1, Dave Creek; Hydra, 151pp, $14.99, tp, ISBN: 978-1-5441-5969-0 · Don Sakers · br _203 · Starliner, David Drake; Baen, 263pp, $16.00, tp, ISBN: 978-1-4814-8250-9 · Don Sakers · br _203 · Nyxia, Scott Reintgen; Crown, 384pp, $17.99, hc, ISBN: 978-0-399-55679-1 · Don Sakers · br _204 · The Progress of Mankind, Raymund Eich; CV-2, 198pp, $9.99, tp, ISBN: 978-0-9991-0161-2 · Don Sakers · br 205 · Brass Tacks · [The Readers] · lc _205 · [letter from Baltimore, MD] · Jay Michael · lt __205 · [response to Jay Michael] · Paul Fisher · ms _205 · [letter from Rocky Point, NY] · Doug McGarrett · lt __205 · [response to Doug McGarrett] · John G. Cramer · ms _206 · [letter] · Jose Borreguero · lt _206 · [letter from Lynnwood, WA] · Chas. H. W. Talbot · lt _206 · [letter from Somerville, MA] · Jon Kiparsky · lt _206 · [letter from Gardner, MA] · John Odgren · lt 208 · Upcoming Events · Anthony Lewis · cl