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(SF) Rist descends from the highlands
and is captured by the lowlanders, who've never seen a human being as small
as him. He struggles to learn their language and adapt to their ways
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(SF) On Skipbrudden, each child must
pass four tests to earn the right to become an adult. Arvie is a precocious
kitten, which means he'll face the tests sooner than most.
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(SF) In a future where everyone is
neuter, Poat and Serl track their partner, Anth, to a restricted world which
is trying to bring back things like sex and religion.
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(SF; Andrea Cort) On Caithiriin,
murderers get a choice between execution or anti-violence treatment. No human
has had to make that choice before, but it's suspicious that the natives
almost always prefer death.
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The
Journeyman: In The Great North Wood by Michael F.
Flynn Time: 1h:16m (Novella) Issue: Analog 06|16
(SF; The Journeyman) Teodorq and his
friend Sammi agree to organize security for a nobleman's archaeological
expedition. They expect danger from the local tribes, but not from the
artifacts themselves.
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(SF; Andrea Cort) Draiken used to be a
spy, but now he wants revenge on his former masters, and he has a complicated
plan to enlist a former associate.
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(Solar System SF) When the asteroids
want their freedom from Earth, they threaten it with asteroid bombardment.
The SNV Belmont is the only chance to stop it.
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(SF) A violent Martian mining town
reconstructs Wyatt Earp to try to restore order.
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Novelette
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(Hard SF) Mary was an expert in
dealing with "nanoblooms," which destroyed North America in the
21st Century. She's called back to investigate a nanobloom with odd behavior.
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(Hard SF) Cynthia had the evidence to
send the crooked Initiative officers to prison, but how to get it from
Jupiter back to Earth?
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(Hard SF) Although they've never been
close, Cory accepts his fabulously rich father's invitation to fly with him
into the heart of the biggest hurricane ever.
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Detroit
Hammersmith Zero-Gravity Toilet Repairman (Retired) by Suzanne
Palmer Time: 24m (Novelette) Issue: Analog 09|16
(Hard SF) At the height of diplomatic
meetings, the toilets in the Station start to malfunction, even though
diagnostics say nothing is wrong. So they call for an expert.
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(Time Travel) Light story about a
time-travelling biologist who runs into some problems in Cretaceous
Antarctica.
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(SF) Old Mr. Coanda fans Jimmy's love
for outer space by showing him how to build and launch real rockets.
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(SF) Dale Maygan has sold Fermi
Furnaces on planets along the "great circle" for twenty years. He
meets young Barclimas Tragg, more con-man than salesman, and tries to help
him despite his better judgment.
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(Hard SF) Zachary investigates
cybercrime, and when his partner is murdered, he suspects a group of
sophant-rights activists, who seek equal rights for AIs.
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(Generation Ship SF) Garen and his
little brother live in the outer shell of the ship, but they have an
unhealthy curiosity about the people who live inside.
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(Near-future SF) Britain's princess
Rose decides to champion a public relations campaign on behalf of visiting
aliens who want to purchase the moon.
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(Hard SF) Fifty million years after
the extinction of humanity, a new intelligent race tries to understand
records left on the moon.
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(Solar System SF) Captain Jerwin has a
space station to finish, but she finds time to worry about a crewman past
retirement age who can't handle Earth gravity.
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(SF Police) In a caste-based future
officer John Blank investigates a serial killer whose victims seem to have
mysterious connection to upper-caste people.
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(Near-Future SF) Benji was an ordinary
terrier until his master decided to have him sentientized.
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(Transhuman SF) The world doesn't
react well to Tom and Samantha's new technology, and their labs around the
world are attacked. So they speed up their plans for human testing.
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(SF Mystery) Angelo investigates the
mystery of an invisible man who manages to attack victims despite his being
confined to a cell.
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Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan by Maggie Clark
Time: 43m (Novelette) Issue: Analog 04|16
(SF) The narrator fled her world's
brutal religion for a role with an interstellar science team. But a distress
call puts her back on a collision course with it.
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(Historical) In 1932 New York City,
William works for a broadcasting company.
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(SF) Ian witnesses a murder, thanks to
his unnaturally good night vision, but dares not go to the police because in
the late 21st Century, people like him are hunted.
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(Hard SF) An experiment in increasing
the intelligence of bonobo apes produces a monkey with an unhealthy interest
in Shakespeare and Cervantes.
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(SF) A century from now, Tipper works
at an automated carnival, in a world with few jobs for humans. She falls in
with Luke, a boy trying to make an illegal manual car work.
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(SF) Mike shows an alien how humanity
beat the ant-like Jenregar, but a visit to an abandoned mound outside Chicago
infuriates the locals, who treat the place as a shrine to their dead.
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(Hard SF) Fresh from Earth, Peter
finds himself assigned to an unpromising part of the colony planet, and he
finds the natives even harder to talk with than he'd expected.
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(Military SF) Years after her military
service, Etta's "link" with the supersoldier she directed seems to
be coming back--even though the man died in action. Exciting.
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We Will Wake Among the Gods, Among the Stars by Caroline M. Yoachim and Tina
Connolly Time: 43m (Novelette) Issue: Analog 01.02|16
(SF) Nanne accompanies a jungle
expedition that seeks gold, but she secretly looks for a lost city with high
technology.
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(Time Travel; Martin & Artie) A
group of lost time travelers tries to make the fall of Nineveh happen in a
way consistent with the future they're trying to get back to.
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Short Story
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(Hard SF) Commander Krasniqi's ship
has a malfunction during aerobraking, and she and the crew struggle to repair
it before the ship enters atmosphere again.
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Adventures In Family Bonding
by W. Michael Beachy1 Time: 10m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 09|16
(SF) Erin Troyer agrees to babysit her
grandson, Gene, while her son and his wife visit Europe. There's something
funny about the boy, though.
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(Hard SF) Jason got paid for doing an
experiment with a robot today, and he and his wife try to figure out what it
was all about.
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(Hard SF) The human colony on Kokkal
IV can't expand without permission from the "Evermother," but the
local aliens require they "assimilate the shadows" first.
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(SF) Sixty-eight years ago, Carl shot
his best friend Deon. Recently, Deon died of complications, so Carl has to
stand trial for Deon's murder. A trial Deon will show up for.
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(SF Mystery) When Maria witnesses a
ten-year-old boy being abducted, she chases the van with her delivery drone,
and calls for everyone on the net to help.
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(SF Mystery) Six months out from Zeta
Reticuli, someone murders a poet. Jayla isn't a detective, but someone needs
to solve the murder or no one will feel safe.
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Deep Waters Call Out To What Is Deeper Still by Sarah Frost
Time: 13m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 09|16
(SF) Pascal uses a mind link to
control fish in a public aquarium. Pascal's big success has been a swordfish,
but a bigger challenge beckons.
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(Time Travel) Art's twenty-years-future
self returns to warn the graduate student that he's about to ruin his life.
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(SF) Elderly couple in the near future
decides to rebel against the tax on sex, levied only on older people to pay
for the health costs.
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(Robot SF) In which we learn about
10,000 years of robot progress, much of it unexpected.
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(SF Humor) Neurologist professor Tim Morrow
is obsessed with logic. He's sure there's a way to modify the brain to remove
the tendency to logical error.
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(Hard SF) Eric and his husband scrape
by as urban farmers in a near-future, depressed New York City, until a customer
claims her mother got a disease from their produce.
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(SF) The Xarl, dedicated to
exterminating other intelligent races, find a space probe with directions to
Earth.
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(Hard SF) Daisy's efforts to build a
stasis machine are failing, and she's failing as a mother too.
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(Hard SF) Boonker is a powerful alien,
and teenage-human Saul is his apprentice, although he doesn't know it yet.
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In the
Absence of Instructions to the Contrary by Frank Wu Time: 20m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 11|16
(SF Robot) Karl is a robot exploring
the sea floor. The exploring goes well, but reporting back has problems.
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(Military SF) Amy works doing salvage
in space, and she plans something special to celebrate being certified for
solo work.
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(Hard SF) Carpenter Marie, a trustee
in a prison on another world, sees a great opportunity to meet a prisoner she
admires.
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(SF Mystery) Lotte goes undercover on Michael
Brooks's reality show to try to catch a stalker who's threatening him.
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(Near-future SF) New models of
self-driving cars in Los Angeles have started making patterns on the
roadways, and the engineers need to figure out why.
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(SF) Little Poppy and Captain Drew
climb a mountain for a once-in-a-year chance to communicate with her mom.
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(Mainstream) Terry used to be a
professional baseball player, but he's had a hard time adjusting since he
lost his arm.
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Mountain by
Andy P. Smith1 Time: 24m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 05|16
(Post Apocalypse) In a broken-down
future, a woman learns of the death of her son on a mysterious mountain that
once powered the world.
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(SF) Twenty-three light-years from
Earth, an expedition finds local plants that seem to affect human cognition.
Mostly for the better, but one crew member is suspicious.
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(SF) Three different people share a
remote robotic body. They have three different reasons and three different
experiences.
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Pleistocene Brains
by Christina De La Rocha1 Time: 14m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 07.08|16
(SF) Professor Irma Chretin
demonstrates how Neanderthals made stone tools to a class of anthropology
students. Oddly, she looks a lot like a Neanderthal herself.
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Promised Land
by Bethany Gilton1 Time: 07m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 05|16
(SF) Moses spends most of his time
playing video games, but occasionally the computer rouses him to remind him
he's supposed to be running the starship.
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(Hard SF) The narrator recounts from
prison what really went wrong with her team that attempted to build an AI
bomb for the military.
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(SF) The narrator, a brain researcher,
explores a theory that science fiction texts can be used to cause test
subjects to think more rationally.
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(Hard SF) Leo is a scientist studying
Manta Gliders on planet Keleni and despite his age and poor health, he
intends to report on how their babies are born.
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(Apocalypse) Loki works as a MercOp in
an enclave in a ruined future St. Louis, killing bad guys remotely.
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(Near-Future SF) Abdoulaye and Safi
work in the "Sleep Factory," where third-world workers with neural
implants can do jobs around the world. It's dangerous, but they almost have
enough to quit.
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(near-future SF) Mary Margret gets
suspicious when one of the solar-powered, self-driving SUVs popular with
retired people parks itself at her dad's New Mexico ranch and just sits
there. Entertaining.
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Story Night At The Stronghold by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Time: 06m (ShortStory)
Issue: Analog 07.08|16
(Post-Apocalypse) A year after the
events in the novel "Lucifer's Hammer," a visitor from Hoover Dam
hears stories from people at the Stronghold.
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(SF Humor) Around 50 to 100 years from
now, a group of scientists resorts to counterfeiting money to shore up their
inadequate research grants.
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(SF) Wheeler notices the cosmic
background radiation is changing and deduces that aliens are doing it.
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(Hard SF) Katrina and Jeff operate an
asteroid mining station for the S.P.C. It's not bad work except that the
mining companies are at war, using gravel as missiles.
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(Hard SF) Izna wants to write a story
about how Selma died on the first quantum drone flight, but she also wants an
excuse to investigate what really happened.
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The
Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet by James Van
Pelt Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 12|16
(SF Adventure) Everyone calls Tomika
"Space Cadet," but she really feels she doesn't belong in this
world.
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(Planetary SF) Marj seeks life in the
oceans of Enceladus. Her guide wonders why she bothers.
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(SF) In near-future Cornwall, England,
Travis and his wife specialize in arrangements of genetically engineered
flowers that release pheromones that mimic their traditional virtues.
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(SF Humor) Quigby's philosophy is to
find employment that will let him spend the rest of his days doing nothing as
enjoyably as possible. A little philosophy can be a dangerous thing.
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The Perfect Bracket
by Howard
V. Hendrix and Art Holcomb1
Time: 18m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 03|16
(SF) Against impossible odds, John
Peoples successfully picked a perfect NCAA bracket, winning the
billion-dollar prize. But Richard Mann is determined to prove he cheated.
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(Hard SF) Ten-year-old Lee and his
best friend Ben discover a dead animal near their school playground--an
animal that shouldn't exist at all. Chilling.
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(SF Robot) In 2064 Oklahoma, teenage
Ed finds a damaged robot and tries to figure out how to return it.
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(SF Humor) All the cool kids got
programmable tattoos from their parents, but Evan is sure there's a catch.
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(SF) Janet chairs the governing board
for the asteroid 1820 Geographos, so she's on the hook when a mystery vessel
shows up, hacks their computers, and docks without permission.
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(SF Humor) A scientist who lost the
fortune he made from inventing a smart pill decides he can make another
fortune by inventing a stupid pill.
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(SF) The narrator finds an illegal
coal power plant in Africa and lands with his team to order them to turn it
off.
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