Authors in this Issue
“Sin Eaters” by Mark W. Tiedemann
Mark W. Tiedemann is a St. Louis native, and a few of his stories are even set there. His Secantis Sequence (which is not set in St. Louis) is being reissued by Histria Publishing, beginning with the PKD Award-nominated Compass Reach.
“The Origami Man” by Doug Franklin
Doug Franklin has spent most of his life in Alaska with the Chugach Range as his backyard and the blue waters of Resurrection Bay just a couple hours down the highway. When he’s not out in the wilderness with his dogs, he can be found at his workbench writing science fiction or building things that fly. This is his second appearance in Analog. Previously published short stories and an excerpt from his novel The Extrapolated Man can be found at extrapolatedworlds.com.
“Monkey Trap” by Geoffrey Hart
Geoff (he/him) works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He’s the author of the popular Effective Onscreen Editing and Write Faster With Your Word Processor. He also writes fiction and has sold 84 stories thus far. Visit him online at www.geoff-hart.com.
“Salary Man” by Matt McHugh
Matt McHugh was born in suburban Pennsylvania, attended LaSalle University in Philadelphia, and after a few years as a Manhattanite, now calls New Jersey home. His fiction has appeared in Analog, The Saturday Evening Post, and DreamForge. His story “Burners” won the 2019 Jim Baen Memorial Award and “Jennifer Gives Her Heart to Radioland” is PARSEC’s 2021 Short Story Contest winner. In 2022, he was a grant finalist for The Speculative Literature Foundation. Website: mattmchugh.com
“You Who Sought the Stars’ Distant Light” by Stewart C. Baker
Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and games, including The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press), the Nebula-nominated The Bread Must Rise (with James Beamon), and numerous short stories, games, and poems. Born in England, Stewart lives in Oregon.
“Artificial Cupidity” by Hayden Trenholm
Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning editor, playwright, novelist, and short story writer. His forty short stories have appeared in many magazines, including four in Analog SFF, and anthologies and on CBC radio. His first novel, A Circle of Birds, won the 3-Day Novel Writing competition. His trilogy, The Steele Chronicles, were each nominated for an Aurora Award. His most recent, The Passion of Ivan Rodriguez, was published in 2023. In 2022, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame. See more: www.haydentrenholm.com
“Still Cold, Still Losing Air” by Sean Monaghan
Sean Monaghan <seanmonaghan.com> would love to be an early colonist of Mars, but for now satisfies himself writing tales from a nook in the corner of his 100-year-old home in provincial New Zealand.
“A Goodbye at the End of the Universe” by Ian Baaske
Ian Baaske’s work has appeared in Asimov’s, Bellevue Literary Review, and Baltimore Review as well as the online publications of the North American Review, Pinch, and Emrys. His story, “The Man in the Moon is a Lady,” was included in Locus Magazine’s 2024 Recommended Reading List. He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his family and loves writing everything that’s not his bio. Read more at tantabus.org.
“Silver Hands” by E.L. Mellor
E. L. Mellor is an Odyssey Workshop graduate who writes fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, and horror. She believes imagination can pan bits of gold out of the most unpromising streams. Her work has appeared in Reckoning and Mysterion.
“Unsung” by Derrick Bodden
Derrick Boden’s fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Analog, and elsewhere. He currently calls Boston his home, although he’s lived in fourteen cities spanning four continents. He is owned by two cats and one iron-willed daughter.
“A Future Full of Glaciers” by Peter Medeiros
Peter Medeiros teaches Kung Fu and writing, though almost never at the same time. He has been publishing fiction since 2013, and was most recently featured in Giganotosaurus. He is currently represented by JABerwocky Literary Agency.
“Flag Lamp” by Jonathan Olfert
Jonathan Olfert figures he’s history’s seventh or eighth most prolific writer of speculative paleofiction. His science fiction and fantasy stories have found homes in Lightspeed, Analog, Old Moon Quarterly, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He hails from Alberta, Canada and lives on the North Atlantic.
“Recognition, Memory” by Benjamin C. Kinney
Benjamin C. Kinney is a neuroscientist and SFF writer who remembers to combine the two whenever he can. His short stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, Fantasy Magazine, and this is his 6th appearance in Analog. You can read more on the web or Bluesky at benjaminckinney.com.
“Jack Cade’s Rebellion” by Philip Brian Hall
Yorkshireman Philip Brian Hall is a graduate of Oxford University. A former diplomat and teacher, at one time or another he’s stood for parliament, sung solos in amateur operettas, rowed at Henley Royal Regatta, completed a forty-mile cross-country walk in under twelve hours and ridden in over one hundred steeplechase horse races. He lives on a very small farm in Scotland.
Philip’s had short stories published in the UK and Canada as well as The USA. He writes a Substack column at https://philipbrianhall.substack.com/. His novels, The Prophets of Baal and The Family Demon are available in e-book and in paperback. An author-narrated audiobook of The Prophets of Baal is also available.
“A Chatbot’s Guide to Self-Respect” by Jo Miles
Jo Miles writes optimistic science fiction and fantasy, including the Gifted of Brennex space opera trilogy beginning with Warped State. Their short stories have appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, and more. Jo lives in Maryland, where they help nonprofits use the internet to save the world, but mostly serve the whims of their two cats. You can find all their work and sign up for updates at www.jomiles.com.
“Like Father, Like Son” by Theodora Sutcliffe
Theodora Sutcliffe is a British writer. She has published journalism on the Guardian, CNN, the BBC, and more, while her short fiction has appeared in titles including Fictive Dream and Molecule. She is working on a novel and her ashtanga yoga practice. You can find her at theodorasutcliffe.com or tweeting as @theodora.bsky.social on Bluesky.
“And She is Content” by Frank Ward
Frank Ward has been an Active member of SFWA since 1979, about the same time he met Fred Pohl, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Ray, Barry Longyear, and George Scithers all in the same weekend of a NorthAmericancon. Since his retirement from full time teaching and administration, his stories have appeared in Asimov’s and Analog, as well as a chapbook, Caruso’s Curious Anecdote, published by Farthest Star Publishing. Besides short stories, he’s currently working on a novelized collection of stories around ageless humans who take to the stars to avoid the discrimination of Earth.
“Linka’s Out” by Rich Larson
Rich Larson’s (Ymir, Tomorrow Factory, The Sky Didn’t Load Today and Other Glitches) fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages, among them Polish, French, Romanian and Japanese, and adapted into an Emmy-winning episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS. His latest collection, Changelog, is available now from Fairwood Press.
“Iron Star Swing” by Kate Orman
Kate Orman is best known for her Doctor Who books. Her stories have appeared in Interzone, IZ Digital, Realms of Fantasy, and the Australian magazine Cosmos. She lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and coauthor, Jonathan Blum.
“Jiggity Jog” by Don Mark Baldridge
Had he to invent it over from scratch, Don Mark could scarcely have come up with the actual world, full of parasitic wasps, brain altering fungi and vast cultures of intestinal flora, kiting about in generational meatships like space explorers. . . . Nevertheless, he tries to harness such evolutionary weirdness in his work, which has appeared in Asimov’s, PseudoPod, and now in the pages of Analog. If you make any sense of it, reach out at donmarkbaldridge.com
“Nor Any Drop to Drink” by Kevin Walsh
Kevin Walsh is a professorial fellow in the School of Geography, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has research interests in tropical meteorology, climate change, and planetary science. His new book is Planets of the Known Galaxy
“The War, Astounding, and Campbell” by Edward M. Wysocki, Jr.
Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. has been a reader of Analog since 1968. His articles have appeared since 2020, but he still wishes to satisfy his objective of having a work of fiction accepted for publication. His latest book, RARE INVENTIONS: Did Science Fiction Inspire Them?, was published in September and is available from Amazon. His website is www.emwysocki.com.
“Me-n-You-Genics” by Howard V. Hendrix
Howard V. Hendrix has published six novels, three collections of shorter fiction, and one poetry collection. His latest work is the nonfiction book Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science and Fiction of Population and Extinction, forthcoming from McFarland & Company.
Alternate View: “Intelligent Computation to Improve Aligo”
John’s new hard SF novel, Fermi’s Question, and its prequel, his second hard SF novel Einstein’s Bridge, are available as eBooks from Baen Books at: www.baen.com/einstein-s-bridge.html. His first hard SF novel Twistor is available online at: https://www.amazon.com/Twistor-John-Cramer/dp/048680450X. Nonfiction QM Book: John’s 2016 nonfiction book describing his transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, The Quantum Handshake—Entanglement, Nonlocality, and Transactions, (Springer, January 2016) is available online as a hardcover or eBook at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319246402. Alternate View Columns Online: Electronic reprints of 236 or more of “The Alternate View” columns written by John G. Cramer and previously published in Analog are currently available online at: http://www.npl.washington.edu/av.
Reference Library by Sean C.W. Korsgaard
Sean CW Korsgaard is a U.S. Army veteran, award-winning freelance journalist, author, editor, and publicist who has worked with Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Baen Books, and Writers of the Future, and recently became the editor of Anvil and Battleborn magazines. His first anthology, Worlds Long Lost, was released in December 2022, as was his debut short story, “Black Box.” He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and child, along with, depending on who you ask, either far too many or far too few books.