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A fairly good issue to close out the year. I enjoyed the conclusion to Jay Werkheiser's serial "Kepler's Laws."Interestingly, the two pandemic-related stories in this issue ("The Malady" by Shane Tourtellote and "Constellating the Darkness" by Howard V. Hendrix) originate from before the current disaster. I wonder, though, if we are in for a raft of stories on that theme in upcoming issues. The mag has a tendency to reflect what's current in the headlines (lots of Mars and AI nowadays) so perhap...
This is the November/December 2021 issue of Analog Science Fiction And Fact , the last in 2021. There are a lot of interesting if not great stories and the final to the serial. Contents:Population and Genius [Editorial (Analog)] essay by Howard V. Hendrix a short piece about the usual approach of most states that they should stimulate population growth and is it a fallacy. 2.5*The Malady novelette by Shane Tourtellotte an alien race has a disease that affects almost all and that makes them dull...
8 • The Malady • 30 pages by Shane Tourtellotte Good/OK. The Malady impedes intelligence. Tehl-Voyf is experimenting with different compounds to see if there is a difference. Ten years later the rationalists want to emphasize study over family rearing. More segments of story in year twenty, thirty, forty and fifty.38 • A Sports Story • 9 pages by Brenda Kalt Good. A star athlete is kidnapped by aliens, after three years Linsnrt returned home. He struggles to regain physical conditioning in order...
On an alien world a bioweapon used during an internecine war caused “The Malady”, a syndrome which drastically reduced cognitive intelligence, particularly among males. When a researcher accidently finds a cure to the malady it creates a quandary between sudden scientific advancement and a reluctance to repeat the sins of the past in Shane Tourtellotte’s tale. When a Terran senator searching for her sister’s ship, following an unresponsive ansible beacon, finds the debris on the surface of a pla...
A weak edition. My favorite stories were:“An Hour to Ames” by Dan Reade - A daughter, who has a troubled relationship with her mother, sends her android to visit her in the hospital, where she is dying of cancer “From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12” by Jo Miles - A service bot in a human colony starts to question the AI managing it all.
Some enjoyable material here; also a few stories I didn’t like at all. I thought the serial, “Kepler’s Laws” by Jay Werkheiser, included some fascinating sf elements — the planet and the situation of the characters — but was flawed as a novel. Very interesting but a bumpy read. I liked the stories by Reade, Reed, Evans, Towey, Jones, Wood, and Frank, all quite interesting and satisfying as stories. Didn’t think much of the two novelettes (Tourtelotte and McHugh) or the stories by Kalt and Miles....
Had to buy this as soon as it came out to read the conclusion to Jay Werkheiser's serialized novel Kepler's Laws, and it didn't disappoint!
Another excellent issue to finish out 2021 for ANALOG.
Not much to say about this issue. Some of the shorter stories were good, but otherwise a mostly forgettable issue for me."From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12" by Jo Miles is yet another story about small robots with a bit of a personality. The story follows a maintenance drone on a colony settlement. It is being pushed around but by both humans and its supervisor mastercomputer, but it starts getting suspicious about something not being right anymore with how the masterc...
B (very good):No Stranger to Native Shores by Matt McHughAn Hour to Ames by Dan ReadeNever to Happen Again by Bill Pronzini & Barry N MalzbergThe Water Beneath Our Feet Alice ToweyWander On by William Paul JonesCaoimhe's Water Music by Mjke WoodArs Brevis Est by Anatoly BelilovskyThe Library at Ecbatana by Timons EsaiasC (average):The Malady by Shane TourtelloteA Sports Story by Brenda KaltThe Kindness of Jaguars by Monica Joyce EvansMoon Unit by Bill FrankD (poor):Kepler's Laws, Conclusion by J...
