(Hard SF) Kayonga’s wracked with guilt
about his last mission, his partner resents having to work with him, and the
planet they’re exploring is trying to kill them.
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(SFF Humor) To celebrate the 100th
anniversary of General Relativity, Madam Tasha Girl-Friday, Transgender
Transgressor of the Boundaries of Space and Time, summons the ghost of Albert
Einstein.
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(SF Colony) When the nanofab failed
seventeen years ago, it condemned the colony to slow decline as their high
tech wore out and they switched to iron-age methods. Young Henry wants to fix
it and be a hero.
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(SF Humor) When Cjek guides her
damaged ship to an emergency landing in Roy’s cornfield, problems ensue
because she’s not the sort of UFO he was expecting.
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(SF Adventure; Prime Mondeign)
Unwanted third-son Luro leaps at the chance to join an expedition to find the
lost technological treasures of the legendary Empyrean.
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(SF) Daniel greets new children and
prepares his flock for harvest, but his successor is proving a problem.
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Alexander's Theory of Special Relativity by Shane Halbach Time: 07m (ShortStory)
Issue: Analog 03.04|17
(Time Travel) Alexander sent his
girlfriend, Maria, to the future for what he thought was ten minutes, but for
her it was eleven years. She's <i>not</i> pleased.
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(Near-future SF) VΓ©ronique and Emily
have to retrieve the Alouette 1 satellite for a museum, but there’s a problem
getting it inside their ship.
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(Near-Future SF) Samanda famous
parents are going to upload and leave her behind. She’s suffered in their
shadows, suffered their neglect, but she doesn’t know how to handle this.
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Arp! Arp! by Christina De La Rocha2 Time: 13m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 09.10|17
(SF Techno Mystery) Monique comes to
an ocean platform that extracts phosphorus from sea water to solve the
mystery of why the plankton that drive it are dying.
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(Military SF) The courts removed
Imbra’s ability to get angry or fight back, but he still wants to help his
world fight off the invaders who’re threatening them.
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(SF Humor) Len’s fully automated house
system has a “notorious” user interface, as he discovers when he tries to
adjust the thermostat.
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(Alien SF) When the alien starship has
an accident, they have to skip their original target star and find a new one.
That turns out to be a hard decision to make.
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(Hard SF) Red and Churro look for
naturally-occuring superconducters in the cold Canadian winter, but the
competition is really murder.
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(Far-future SF) Marin is sure the
stigs are intelligent and maybe even have telepathy, and she’s determined to
make the most of her one chance to study them—even if it costs her her
relationship with Landon.
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(SF Adventure) Florian used to be a
climber back on Earth, and now he wants to be the first man to climb Olympus
Mons.
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Concerning the Devastation Wrought by the Nefarious Gray Comma and Its
Ilk: A Men In Tie-Dye Adventure by Tim McDaniel Time: 10m (ShortStory)
Issue: Analog 03.04|17
(SF Humor) Austin catches some men in
tie-dye costumes digging up his plants in the middle of the night.
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(SF Adventure) A man and his wife try
to escape their empty lives on Earth by emigrating to the moon illegally.
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(SF) Dal approaches the end of it's
life and wishes to leave a worthy message to posterity--if the waterwraiths
will leave it alone long enough.
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(Near-Future SF) Ever since quantum
computers broke RSA encryption, vigilantes have been after people who’d done
bad things online and whose identities are now exposed. They’re after Mike
for something, but he has no idea what.
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(Dystopia) Now that his wife has
passed away, Matthew must move from their spacious apartment on the
retirement space station into smaller quarters.
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Drifting Like Leaves, Falling Like Acorns
by Marissa Lingen Time: 10m (ShortStory)
Issue: Analog 01.02|17
(Military SF) Bismuth is getting tired
of the war--from the modified humans who glide like flying squirrels to the
modified frogs whose secretions calm solders down.
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(SF Sports) On an alien spaceship, the
Ecuadorian football team plays against France for the World Cup. But the
stakes may be a lot higher.
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(Time Travel) Eli’s company sells
vacations in the past, but they're having some technical problems.
Nevertheless, he not going to postpone his visit to Herod’s temple.
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(SF) In the event of an emergency,
your body may be taken over by remote control.
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(Hard SF) Despite the cancer that’s
killing her, young Cassie heads to Europa to join a research team.
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Facebook Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate It
by Sam Schreiber1
Time: 09m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 05.06|17
(Emergent AI) The narrator is an
emergent AI trying to survive in a hostile world.
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(Near-Future SF) The narrator invests
in a company making an experimental diet drug, but then his wife gets into
their clinical trials and he learns something interesting.
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(First Contact) We finally get to the
stars, and every planet looks the same: a gray ball of slime.
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(Near-Future SF) Locals plan a riot to
disrupt foreign factories in Vietnam which use a drug called “focus” to
control their employees.
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(Hard SF) A secret 1970 space mission
sends a US and a Soviet woman on a one-way trip to deflect a killer asteroid.
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(Interstellar SF) Galleon runs trade
routes between Sol and Ra. She’s very attached to her human captain, but he’s
showing signs of settling down with a human woman.
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(SF) Kushal and his wife had a
telepathic link installed before she went to war. Now he’s still getting
messages from her, even though she died months ago.
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(Time Travel) October 18, 1945. A
time-traveler visits a woman who co-authors SFF with her husband under a
pseudonym.
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(Colony Ship SF) Larisha is very
excited about being part of the crew for new colony ship, but the politics
involved in building it takes a lot of the fun out of it.
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(SF Humor) S’lisha hates babysitting
the captain’s 5-year-old. Human larvae are a pain to deal with—especially in
space.
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(Space Zombies) Bored and depressed,
Julian cuts high school and wanders around the space station, unaware that
his father plots the end of the world.
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(Near-Future SF) An American and a
Chinese scientist collaborate in secret on a special type of atmospheric
laser.
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(Near-Future SF) Lilit makes a nice
living troubleshooting problems in smart houses. Bringing her old-fashioned
grandmother along on a call doesn’t look like the smartest move, though.
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How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement
by Scott Edelman Time: 32m (Novelette)
Issue: Analog 11.12|17
(First Contact) Val is kidnapped and
imprisoned by a man who lost his father and blames Val because Val’s uncle
messed up our first meeting with aliens.
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(Time Travel; Martin & Artie) In
the mid-Pleistocene, Martin and Artie try to work a deal with Neanderthal
time travelers in hopes of finding a way back to our timeline.
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(SF Adventure) A team trying to
understand what happened to a human colony whose members have all regressed
to animal intelligence is distracted when someone uplifts their cat to human
intelligence.
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(SF) The narrator has been cast away
on a deserted planet for seventeen years. He’s filled up 766 logbooks, and
he’s starting on 767. And he’s having awful dreams.
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(SF) Abe waited too late to make
reservations at a place to watch the eclipse, so he ends up in a very
out-of-the-way location with some rather strange companions.
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(Near-Future SF) In 2070, you can take
snapshots of your personality and talk to them later. Is it healthy talking
to your Keepsake self decades later? And should a Keepsake be allowed to
testify in court?
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(Hard SF) When the Earth colony ship
sent the first shuttles down to Kepler, there didn’t seem to be anything
dangerous down there. Appearances can be deceiving.
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(Near-Future SF) A scholar travels to
the Bodleian Library in Oxford on the same day a mysterious problem with
disintegrating paper erupts in the US.
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Laminated Moose Zombies and Other Road Maintenance Problems
by Dennis M. Flynn1 and Michael F. Flynn Time: 16m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 11.12|17
(Zombies) It’s just a fungus that
temporarily animates dead bodies, and it’s only an annoyance because it can’t
infect living people. Yet.
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(Near-Future SF) Emiko hates her bad
teeth, and she thinks science owes it to her to spread a cure for tooth
decay.
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(SF) Her departure from Portran
delayed by a few days, Jubrin explores the marketplace and acquires an alien
pet.
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(Dystopia) Luscinia doesn’t want to
spend money—she just wants more of it. And more. And more.
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(SF Adventure Pastiche) In which we
learn of a hitherto-undisclosed fifth voyage of Lemuel Gulliver, to a place
called “Chicago” in 2022, and of the marvelous things that happened there.
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(Post-Apocalypse) In 2284, Earth is
recovering from geological and ecological catastrophe, and in Arizona a group
of survivors on Kitt’s Peak reaches another group at the Montezuma Castle
National Monument.
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(Colony-Planet SF) When Iolus refuses
demands that it become part of the empire, the imperial agents are much too
smart to destroy the planet, but they’re definitely up to something.
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(Horror) Something is taking over the
bodies of human beings. No one is sure what or why, but Walsh’s mission is to
kill them when he finds them.
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(Time Travel) A time traveler, an
immortal, an android, a telepath, and a variety of space aliens meet at cross
purposes in modern America.
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(Hard SF; Captain Nick Aames) When an
accident strikes, the Mars crew have to figure out how to salvage what they
can and somehow survive until help can arrive.
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(Non-human SF) X-jin captures aliens
to dissect and for his students to study. He has secret suspicions about the
value and morality of this work, though.
|
(Hard SF) Chizuru and Layan need to
deorbit an old space station before it collides with something. Getting out
is harder than getting in, though.
|
(SF Adventure) A crew of 5 wake at
Betelgeuse to try to find out why AI probes keep getting destroyed on the
surface of a habitable planet.
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(Near-Future SF) The narrator’s
girlfriend has an annoying friend whose conspiracy theories are threatening
their relationship.
|
(Colony-Planet SF) An ignorant young
man and a stranded space ship race against time to find a way to fix the
problems that make the human colony unsuccessful.
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(SF) Seventy-five ago, Kimberly
invented safe, practical brain stimulators. Now she’s called out of
retirement to try to help a powerful politician who may have injured himself
in his youth.
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(Far-future SF) In which we learn the
history of Fire Mountain Lake and Phuquiang.
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(SF) A 22nd-Century playwright
proposes a screenplay for a thriller.
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(Utopian SF) Ben visits an asteroid
mining ship to study the people who live on it, and he falls in love.
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(Solar System SF; John Demitrius Stories)
Epic Khorasani travels to Venus in disguise to get evidence of illegal
genetic engineering in the cloud colony of Proteus.
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(Near-Future SF) Stosh prides himself
on using union labor, with union-approved downloads, but someone seems to
have been stealing the union's IP and competing unfairly.
|
(SF Adventure) After almost three
years in space following an accident, Nelson is stuck in a hospital on Earth,
and more than anything, he wants to go home.
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Seven Ways to Fall in Love with an Astronaut
by Dominica Phetteplace Time: 07m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 05.06|17
(Hard SF) The narrator struggles to
get plants to grow on Mars, and in the process she falls in love with a
colleague.
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Shakesville by Adam-Troy Castro and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Time: 18m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 03.04|17
(Time Travel) Fifty older copies of
the narrator have come back in time to warn him not to make a terrible
mistake. Pity none of them agrees on what it is.
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(Mind Uploading) Is an uploaded
personality a legal person? Is it kidnapping to make a copy? Is it murder if
the original hires a hit man to target the copier?
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Teamwork by Eve Warren1
Time: 05m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 07.08|17
(Mars Colony) The Earth-born commander
of the Mars colony needs to find out how a young, Mars-born colonist got
injured in some sort of recreational activity with her peers.
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(Hard SF) Arab men reenacting a desert
caravan discover a key oasis has dried up, and they blame a neighboring solar
installation.
|
(SF Horror) Hollowell’s genius led to
the development of the first space elevator, now nearing completion. What no
one knows is that his genius has come at a price.
|
(SF Conspiracy) Suffering from
writer’s block, the author agrees to house sit for some rich friends of his
agent.
|
(Post Apocalypse) War and pollution
are killing the last survivors on Earth, but an alien robot descends and
tells young Molly that there is still time to save the planet.
|
(Hard SF Thriller) Something causes a
lot of people to acquire an allergy to red meat, and Dr. Strassman finds even
tracking down the cause may be dangerous.
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The First Rule Is, You Don't Eat Your Friends
by Robert R. Chase Time: 22m (ShortStory)
Issue: Analog 07.08|17
(Near-Future SF) Brother Lawrence and
his pig are taking a walk outside the monastery when he finds an injured
scientist seeking protection.
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(SF Colony) Jill ‘s trebuchet that can
throw rocks across a crater is her first “creative anachronism” to get any
real interest from the colony, but is it good for anything?
|
(Historical Fantasy) The alchemist,
Nadr Al-Ta’ir, has found the opposite of the Philosopher’s Stone; it seems to
turn gold into lead.
|
(SF Mystery) When a high school teacher
tries to murder his students, the FBI sends Special Agent Ciera Onilongo to
Utah to investigate.
|
(Military SF) A terrorist group has
kidnapped an alien, and Serena’s team need to find them and free it before
it’s too late.
|
(Historical SF) In the last days of
the last Mayan city, a dying god comes to the last Mayan ruler and makes her
an unexpected offer.
|
(Alien SF) Cilketat thinks it’s close
to a mathematical breakthrough, but needs more bodies to do the calculations.
|
(Near-Future SF) Brought out of cryo
prison to hunt his terrorist father, Zeke descends into the swamps of
Louisiana with a lot of weapons and a lot of bad memories.
|
(SF Humor) The narrator prepares to
say farewell to his best, most-trusted friend.
|
(Hard SF) Haley hopes the
"colony" on Bikini island will let her people survive sea-level
rise, but a problem with local birds presents an unexpected threat.
|
(SF) An worn old man struggles to get
to his cabin, and he lets the young man assisting him know just how easy kids
have it these days.
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The Shallowest Waves by Thoraiya Dyer and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Time: 24m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 01.02|17
(Hard SF) Charlotte dreams of seeding
Europa with life, if only she can find someone to fund it.
|
(Time Travel) Max makes a living
snatching valuable individuals from the past. Snatching the author of “The
Little Prince” from WWII France shouldn’t be too difficult, if everything
goes according to plan.
|
(Colony SF) When the “Immortals”
return to planet Nadezhda, the locals are pretty desperate for resupply. So
why is the starship so stingy with them?
|
(Epic SF) The Galactic Eye has found
hundreds of alien races, but, so far, humanity has done nothing but count
them. That’s about to change.
|
(Paleontology SF) The Titanosaur bone
destroyed Bill’s career because its isolation smacked of fraud. But there had
to be another explanation.
|
(Time Travel) John travels back in
time to try to eliminate the hateful stepfather who made his life miserable
for so many years.
|
(Near-Future SF) A homeless man fights
a government decision to put him in hibernation.
|
(Near-Future SF) After a plague kills
off 90% of Africa’s elephants, every survivor is precious. Doctor Adina
Ipolla is called in to try to save a bull elephant that’s behaving very
strangely.
|
(Hard SF) When humanity joined the
Nocturne League, we never dreamed they might punish a treaty violation by
confiscating a colony's children.
|
(SF Adventure) The digitized crew of
the Icefarer awaken near the distant planetoid they were meant to
investigate, but almost everything seems to be wrong.
|
(AI) Alexis is one of a set of AIs in
a research project, and she’s worried that her best friend wants to commit
suicide.
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Viktor Frankenstein's Bar and Grill and Twenty-Four-Hour Roadside
Emporium
by Michael F. Flynn Time: 04m (ShortStory)
Issue: Analog 09.10|17
(Horror Movie Humor) Larry recounts a
night at the bar with his monster friends.
|
(Solar System SF; Oort Cloud Stories)
A virus devastated the Oort Cloud communities, and many of the survivors hate
the family businesses who salvage abandoned ships.
|
(Near-Future SF) Everything is so
perfect—except this this weird game on her phone she always runs before they
make love. And which she’s very secretive about.
|
(Time Travel; Martin & Artie)
Trapped in the past, Martin tries to engineer a change in reality that will
let him go home.
|
(Solar System SF) Rho and Static are
looking for alien artifacts in Saturn’s rings when they run across something
very different.
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Rocket Stack Rank™ (RSR) aims to help casual SF fans find and discuss great original short fiction. It reviews science fiction and fantasy short stories, novelettes, and novellas, and publishes articles of interest to fans.
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine
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