Volume XCII, No. 3 & 4. Contents: 4 • In Defense of a New Era • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by John Vester [as by John J. Vester] 6 • Exile's Grace • novella by Mark W. Tiedemann 40 • Evolving Brainy Brains Takes More Than Living on a Lucky Planet • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Christina De La Rocha 46 • The Four Spider-Societies of Proxima Centauri 33G • short fiction by Mercurio D. Rivera 53 • Nirvana or Bust • short story by Michael Swanwick 58 • What We've Done • short story by Marie Vibbert 60 • Math of the Spear-Carrier • short story by Mike Duncan 65 • The Libraries of Mars • poem by Mary Soon Lee 66 • The Hard Law • short story by D. G. P. Rector 78 • In Transit • novelette by J. T. Sharrah 98 • Are You Kidding? Humor in Astounding and Analog • essay by Stanley Schmidt 103 • In Times to Come (Analog, March-April 2022) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited 104 • You Can't Believe Those Lying AIs • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer 107 • The Honeymooners • short story by Brenda Kalt 115 • Brenda Kalt • [Biolog] • essay by Richard A. Lovett 116 • The Big Day • short story by A. T. Sayre 120 • Grandma Paradox • [Probability Zero] • short story by Louis Evans 124 • Philanderer • short story by Monica Joyce Evans 126 • Hostess • short story by C. L. Kagmi 135 • The Robot Librarian • poem by Ken Poyner 136 • Reaction Time • novelette by C. Stuart Hardwick 150 • Amyloids for Algernon • short story by Corie Ralston 158 • Standard • short story by Thomas Webster 162 • Stage of Mind • short story by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 164 • Epistemology, Star Trek, and Iron Rain • [The Alternate View] • essay by Richard A. Lovett 168 • The Boy Who Cried Fish • short story by D. A. D'Amico 178 • The Journeyman: At the Bluffs of Sinjin Trell • [Journeyman] • novelette by Michael F. Flynn 199 • Guest Reference Library (Analog, March-April 2022) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Odin Halvorson 201 • Review of non-genre non-fiction book: "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" by Cory Doctorow • essay by Odin Halvorson 202 • Guest Reference Library: Amidst the Cris(e)s, We Have Good Fiction (Analog, March-April 2022) • [The Reference Library] • essay by Alexander Pyles 205 • Letters & upcoming events. 【 PREVIOUS ISSUE ← March/April 2022 → NEXT ISSUE 】