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BRUCE BOSTON (1943-2024) Bruce Boston was one of the first SF poets I read, which is probably true for a lot of you readers. I was pulled right in to his worlds by his vivid imagery and talent for writing serial poems. His Mutant Rainforest, Music, and Accursed Wives poems have echoed through the science fiction poetry landscape. Though Bruce had poems regularly appear in our sister publication Asimov’s starting in 1983, it wasn’t until 2015 that Bruce appeared here in Analog. I’m proud to have purchased his first poem for Analog, titled “The Secret of Cold Fusion.” When I