Robert J. Sawyer
Analog, March 2009
Dave Bartell. Cavernauts. Initially a setup that appeared to be a bog standard trope : in the caves of Callisto two explorers are trapped, feared dead. Can two nearly-arrived-from-Earth colleague cavers rescue them? The answer is in fact no, as instead of a dramatic rescue (typically involving the understanding of a scientific quirk), Bartell provides [...]
Analog, December 2008
David Bartell. Misquoting the Star. A followup to ‘Misquoting the Moon’ (March 2007) in which one Hendrik Isaacs got a coveted place on a shuttle to the moon colony, thus being one of the select few to avoid the planet-killer asteroid imminently due to impact on Earth. The main protagonist in this story is the [...]
Analog, November 2008
Robert J. Sawyer. Wake. First of four installments. Carl Frederick. Greenwich Nasty Time. A physics undergraduate is off to the Isle of Wight with his English Lit studying girlfriend (helpful to have a non-scientist along so that he can explain the science to the reader via her), when an experiment he and his thesis adviser [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2007
Rajnar Vajra. Emerald River, Pearl Sky. The story starts with unidentified observers from a thousand years beyond the narrative which unfolds, who introduce one Vincas Magus, a wizened elderly man walking on twisted legs along a path flanked by apple blossom. When Vincas is confronted by a too steep bridge over a river we find [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, December 2006
C. Sanford Lowe & G. David Nordley. Imperfect Gods. A sequel to ‘Kremer’s Limit’ (Analog July/August 2006) in which Hilda Kremer overcame political opposition to get a mission to create an artificial black hole underway. This story starts with her arriving at a planet circling Groombridge 34A, a long journey from Earth. The scientific experiment [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, November 2006
Barry B. Longyear. The Good Kill. The first, it would appear, of a series of Jaggers and Shad SF mysteries. It’s a sort of low-rent version of Michael Swanwick’s Darger and Surplus stories. Obviously humour is the most personal of tastes, and I’m not particularly fond of cod-Britishness, which Longyear employs heavily (and I mean [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, October 2006
Robert J. Sawyer. Rollback. Part I of IV. Last month’s issue of Analog featured the conclusion of a four part serialisation of an Edward M. Lerner novel set in his ‘Dangling Conversations’ milieu, several stories in which setting had previously appeared in Analog. These all featured humanity in radio conversation with a variety of alien [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2004
Both Analog and Asimov’s announced during 2003 that they would be publishing one issue less per year : moving to two double-month issues, and eight single-month issues. This is the first of the two double-month issues of the year, to complement the July/August double issue. Ramona Louise Wheeler. Inherit the Vortex. Further adventures of Ray [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, November 2002
Robert J. Sawyer. Ineluctable. Amateur scientist Darren Hamasaki is in his observatory shed in his backyard when he discovers palpable evidence of … First Contact! He makes contact with the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union. His fame increases following his discovery and he finds himself in Las Vegas as that [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 2002
The issue starts with Part II of IV of Robert J. Sawyer’s novel ‘Hominids’. Presence of Mind. Edward M. Lerner. The story follows a short ‘biolog’ of one Edward J. Lerner – not the first name the middle initial has been problematic in electronic format for this author! Lerner provides a near-future techno-thriller in which [...]
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