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Volume CXXXXI, No. 1 & 2. Contents: 4 • Monumental Thinking • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Rosemary Claire Smith 8 • Mixed Marriage • novelette by Dan Helms 22 • Constructing a Habitable Planet • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Julie Novakova 29 • Julie Nováková? • [Biolog] • essay by Richard A. Lovett 30 • My Hypothetical Friend • short story by Harry Turtledove 41 • In Times to Come (Analog, January-February 2021) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited 42 • A Shot in the Dark • novelette by Deborah L. Davitt 53 • Photometric Evidence of the Gravitational Lensing of SAO23820 by a Nonluminous Low-Mass Stellar Object • short story by Jay Werkheiser 58 • Conference of the Birds • short story by Benjamin C. Kinney 64 • Interstellar Pantomime • short story by Martin Dimkovski 68 • Matter and Time Conspire • short story by Sandy Parsons 70 • The Tale of Anise and Basil • short story by Daniel James Peterson 74 • The Practitioner • short story by Em Liu 80 • What Were You Thinking? • short story by Jerry Oltion 88 • Hidden Things • poem by Jennifer Crow 89 • The Liberator • novelette by Nick Wolven 104 • The Nocturnal Preoccupations of Moths • novelette by J. Northcutt, Jr. 120 • Changing Eyes • short story by Douglas P. Marx 129 • The Last Science Fiction Story • short story by Adam-Troy Castro 130 • A Working Dog • short story by Anne M. Gibson 137 • Wave Function Collapse Revealed • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer 140 • So You Want to Be a Guardian Angel • short story by Michael Meyerhofer 144 • Choose One • short story by Marie DesJardin 148 • We Remember Better • short story by Evan Dicken 150 • The Last Compact • short story by Brian Rappatta 156 • Riddlepigs and the Cryla • short story by Raymund Eich 164 • Belle Lettres Ad Astra • novelette by Norman Spinrad 176 • If • poem by Bruce McAllister 177 • By the Will of the Gods • novelette by Charles Q. Choi 196 • The Reference Library (Analog, January-February 2021) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Don Sakers 202 • Brass Tacks (Analog, January-February 2021) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by various 202 • Letter (Analog, January-February 2021) • essay by Rick Norwood 202 • Letter (Analog, January-February 2021) • essay by John Vester 203 • Letter (Analog, January-February 2021) • essay by Cy Chauvin 204 • 2020 Index (Analog, January-February 2021) • [Index (Analog)] • essay by uncredited 207 • It's Anlab Time Again (Analog, January-February 2021) • [The Analytical Laboratory] • essay by uncredited 208 • Upcoming Events (Analog, January-February 2021) • [Upcoming Events] • essay by Anthony R. Lewis 【 PREVIOUS ISSUE ← January/February 2021 → NEXT ISSUE 】
Authors
Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects. In a typical day, he may talk with biochemists, electrical engineers, patent attorneys, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins. His novels include the Stone Chalmers series of wormhole espionage adventures—THE PROGRESS OF MANKIND, THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD, TO ALL HIGH EMPRISE CONSECRATED, and IN PUBLIC CONVOCATION ASSEMBLED—the Confederated Worlds military science fiction series—TAKE THE SHILLING, OPERATION IAGO, and A BODYGUARD OF LIES—and evolutionary psychology hard science fiction novel NEW CALIFORNIA. He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.
Dr Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced a sizeable number of works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction. Harry Turtledove attended UCLA, where he received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history in 1977. Turtledove has been dubbed "The Master of Alternate History". Within this genre he is known both for creating original scenarios: such as survival of the Byzantine Empire; an alien invasion in the middle of the World War II; and for giving a fresh and original treatment to themes previously dealt with by other authors, such as the victory of the South in the American Civil War; and of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. His novels have been credited with bringing alternate history into the mainstream. His style of alternate history has a strong military theme.
