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Volume CXXXXI, No. 9. & 10. Contents: 4 • The "New Normal" Trap • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Stanley Schmidt 10 • Kepler's Laws (Part 1 of 2) • [Kepler's Law] • serial by Jay Werkheiser (book publication as Kepler's Law 2017) 82 • Orbital Nuclear Power System (ONPS): The Foundation of an Interplanetary Civilization • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Donald Wilkins 89 • The Maestro's Final Work • poem by Alan Ira Gordon 90 • The Book Keepers • novelette by J. T. Sharrah 108 • Extrasolar Redundancy in the Nova Tortuga Model of Preservation for Dermochelys Coriacea • short story by Bianca Sayan 117 • Quieter Songs Inland • short story by Marissa Lingen 120 • Last Dance at the Gunrunners' Ball • [Imago/Militant, Calderon, & DiNardo] • short story by Joel Richards 126 • When Ada Is • short story by Holly Schofield 128 • Where's All the Antimatter? • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer 131 • Quantum Entanglement • poem by Ken Poyner 132 • Timing • short story by Robert Scherrer 134 • Room to Live • short story by Marie Vibbert 139 • In Times to Come (Analog, September-October) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited 140 • The Soul Is Ten Thousand Parts • short story by Chelsea Obodoechina 144 • To Feed the Animals • short story by John Vester [as by John J. Vester] 151 • The Hunger • novelette by Marco Frassetto 168 • The Silence Before I Sleep • novella by Adam-Troy Castro 205 • Don Sakers: (1958-2021) • essay by uncredited 206 • Brass Tacks (Analog, September-October) • [Brass Tacks] • essay by various 206 • Letter (Analog, September-October) • essay by Cy Chauvin 208 • Upcoming Events (Analog, September-October) • [Upcoming Events] • essay by Anthony R. Lewis. 【 PREVIOUS ISSUE ← September/October 2021 → NEXT ISSUE 】
Authors
Ken Poyner is a writer of flash fiction and speculative poetry. As of December 2019, his books are “Cordwood”, poetry, 1985; “Sciences, Social”, poetry, 1995; “Constant Animals”, fictions, 2011; “The Book of Robot”, poetry, 2016; “Victims of a Failed Civics”, poetry, 2016; “Avenging Cartography”, fictions, 2017; “The Revenge of the House Hurlers”, fictions, 2018; “Engaging Cattle”, fictions, 2019. “Cordwood” and “Sciences, Social” are out of print, but all the others are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites, both as paperback and e-books. Individual poems and stories have appeared in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”, “Poet Lore”, “The Alaska Quarterly Review”, “The Indiana Review”, “Café Irreal”, “Rune Bear”, “Menda City Review”, and hundreds of other places. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize many times, as well as a Sidewise Award, multiple Rhysling Awards, and sundry other awards and honors. He has read at Bucknell University, George Washington University, the Bethesda Writers Center, and other venues. His work veers toward the speculative, the surreal, sometimes science fiction, generally the ironic and the unusual.
