Authors in this Issue
“Consumer” by Stephen Case
Stephen Case is an author, professor, and historian of science and technology whose work has appeared in Physics Today, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, American Scientist, and elsewhere. This year [2026] he is a residential research fellow at the Linda Hall Library, where he is studying the engineering career of American science fiction writer Gene Wolfe (1931-2019). You can find Stephen online at www.stephenrcase.com.
“And Wear a Golden Sorrow” Eric Del Carlo
Eric Del Carlo makes his ninth appearance in Analog with this story. He would like to thank W. Shakespeare, whose work he seems to be borrowing from for titles lately. His “spaceopera-punk” fiction has also appeared multiple times in Asimov’s and Clarkesworld.
“Rovers” by Paul Carlson
Paul Carlson is an avid reader who grew into a fan, then a published author. He’s been married to the lovely Fujiko since 1982, and traveled the globe enough to get some idea of diverse cultures. Paul was a delivery truck driver, one of a handful who also belongs to SFWA. He led an online writers group, which hosts a popular resource web site. He has retired to small town Kansas, to help raise his grandchildren. More can be found at cuebon.com.
“False Light” by MB Valente
MB Valente’s stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF, Pithead Chapel, and JAKE, among other places. She is also the translator of more than thirty graphic novels and comic book series by authors such as Xu Xianzhe, Quentin Zuttion, and Benjamin Adam. She lives in Marseille, France: the coolest known city on this or any other planet.
“Songbirds” by H.A.B. Wilt
Haley Byrd Wilt is a writer based in the D.C. area. Her reporting has been published in Christianity Today, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and NOTUS, among others. Several of her fiction stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact. She spent nine years covering the U.S. Congress before deciding her time might be used better elsewhere. Now, when Haley isn’t reading, she’s usually outside or making crafts with her kids.
“Shade” by David Whitmarsh
David is a former software engineer who now spends his time hiking, playing guitar badly, and writing. He lives in West Sussex, England with his wife and two cats. His award-winning debut novel The Measurement Problem is now available from Amazon and his own website at www.sixwhits.com.
“Slingshot” by David Gerrold
David Gerrold is the author of over 50 books, hundreds of articles and columns, and over a dozen television episodes. He is a classic sci-fi writer that will go down in history as having created some of the most popular and redefining scripts, books, and short stories in the genre.
“The Pearl Divers of Connell-B” by Scott Steensma
Scott Steensma is a writer, librarian, and son of a cat fancier from Melbourne, Australia. He has been published in Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways, and Antipodean SF and was shortlisted for the 2022 Aurealis science fiction short story award. You can find him at stainlesssteelcat.com.
“The Three Billion Base Pairs of the Prophet” by Gregor Hartmann
One of the inspirations for this story was Eiheiji, the “temple of eternal piece,” a Soto Zen monastery tucked away in the mountains of Honshu. When he lived in Japan, Gregor Hartmann went there once, and enjoyed the ancient cedar trees, stone buildings with pagoda roofs, the giant bronze bell that boomed several times a day. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, it’s a great place to spend the night, eat vegetarian food, sit zazen, and contemplate the mysteries encoded in your DNA.
“Godspeed” by C.R. Hodges
C.R. Hodges writes speculative fiction, from Norse fantasy to interplanetary sci-fi. Over 30 of his short stories have appeared in markets such as Cicada, EscapePod, Abyss & Apex, and Writer’s Digest. When he isn’t writing or playing the euphonium, he runs a tech company in Colorado.
“Carbon” by Jay Werkheiser
Jay Werkheiser started writing science fiction stories as soon as he was old enough to put pencil to paper. No one stopped him, so he kept writing, and somewhere along the line his stories became good enough for publication. He writes primarily hard science fiction, but isn’t above the occasional time travel or light-hearted sci-fi comedy. He recently retired from a thirty-year teaching career. Old habits die hard, however, so if his stories begin to look like poorly disguised chemistry and physics lectures (more than usual, anyway), someone please remind him that it’s no longer his job.
“Seeking Singularity” by Joel Richards
Joel Richards writes in San Francisco where he lives with his psychoanalyst wife, both muse—and for this story—technical advisor on matters psychological.
“The Shiny New Folk” by Steve Rasnic Tem
Steve Rasnic Tem’s writing career spans over 45 years, including more than 500 published short stories, 17 collections, 8 novels, misc. poetry and plays. His collaborative novella with his late wife Melanie, The Man On The Ceiling, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards in 2001. He has also won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and British Fantasy Awards for his solo work, including Blood Kin, winner of 2014’s Bram Stoker for novel. A collection of his Appalachian stories, Scarecrows, recently appeared. Other recent collections include Figures Unseen and Thanatrauma (Valancourt), Everyday Horrors and Queneau’s Alphabet (Macabre). In 2024 he received the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit his website at: www.stevetem.com.
“Conscience” by Tom R. Pike
Tom R. Pike is a climate policy research analyst. The setting of “Red Ships” previously featured in “Isolate”, in the May/June 2025 issue of Analog. Look for his debut military SF novel, coming out in hardcover September 2026—though the powers that be won’t let him announce the title just yet. You can find more of his work at tomrpike.com.
“On the Origins of Species” by Edd Vick
Edd Vick, the son of a pirate, is a recovering Texan now living in Seattle. He is a bookseller whose library is a stuffed three-car garage. His stories have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Year’s Best SF, and about fifty other magazines and anthologies.
“Seeds of Cities: Science Fiction Novums” by M.C. Child
M.C. Childs’ books include Foresight and Design: Composing Future Places (Routledge 2023); Imagine a City That Remembers with Anthony Anella (UNM Press, 2018); The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs with Ellen Babcock (UNM Press 2016); Urban Composition (Princeton Architectural Press 2012); Squares: a public place design guide for urbanists (UNM Press 2004); and Parking Spaces (McGraw-Hill 1999). Prof. Emeritus Childs has designed buildings and published academic and general audience articles, book chapters, a newspaper column, and SF poems (including in Analog)
“Patterns and Plausibilities” by Howard V. Hendrix
Howard V. Hendrix was trained as a biologist and literary critic and taught at the college level for forty years. He is the author of six novels as well as many essays, short stories, and poems. He likes to think of this piece as speculative nonfiction.
“Homes Away From Home” by Michael Carroll
Journalist, lecturer and space artist Michael Carroll has over thirty books in print. He has written for dozens of magazines worldwide. His fourth science fiction novel is Plato’s Labyrinth: Dinosaurs, Ancient Greeks and Time Travelers. His most recent non-fiction books include Beyond Artemis: Human Expeditions to the Moons of the Solar System (Springer), and Envisioning Exoplanets (Smithsonian). Carroll is a Fellow and founding member of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts.
“Guest Editorial: Artificial Stupidity” by Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt has a longstanding relationship with Analog, getting important parts of his education (and a lot of enjoyment) from reading it, writing all kinds of things for it for an improbably long time, and editing it for 34 years. He still enjoys reading and writing for it, and hopes to continue enjoying both, and provoking people to ask questions and seek answers about everything, for quite a few more.
The Reference Library by Rosemary Claire Smith
Rosemary Claire Smith’s novelette “Apollo in Retrograde” (Analog November/December 2023) won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Over the years, Analog has published her time-travel tales, alternate histories, and other science fiction stories, as well as several editorials. Rosemary’s science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories also appear in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, and other periodicals and anthologies. Her interactive adventure game is T-Rex Time Machine. Rosemary has worked as a field archaeologist and a lawyer. Follow her on-line at www.rcwordsmith.com and across social media at RCWordsmith to find out what else she is up to.