Authors in this Issue

“The Light of Darian” by Sean McMullen

Sean McMullen worked for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for over three decades, in areas ranging across satellite tracking, systems design, disaster contingency and Year 2000 conversion. Student jobs included truck driver, cab driver, lab technician, opera singer, and security guard. He now writes science fiction full time and has had Hugo and BSFA award nominations, and won various other awards. The 4th of his Greatwinter science fiction novels, Keys to the Dragon Machine, was published by Hybrid Publishing in 2025, and his dark comedy, Generation Nemesis, is available from Wizards Tower Press. He has a PhD from Melbourne University.

 

“Robo Bashers” by Harri Hemlock
Harri Hemlock is a Welsh writer living in London. He enjoys writing fiction about people making bad choices and essays about horror movies. “Robo Bashers” is his first published work.

 

“Beggars Mounted” by 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 “space-opera-punk” fiction has also appeared multiple times in Asimov’s and Clarkesworld.

 

“The User Manual” by Tony Ballantyne

 

“Socrates” 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 88 stories thus far. Visit him online at www.geoff-hart.com.

 

“Relative Error” 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.

 

“Meeting a Mom at the Edge of Space” by Xu Mason
Xu Mason is a bilingual first generation Asian American multi-hyphenate performer and writer who has had to write “comedian” as her profession on official tax documents. Her previous publications include McSweeney’s, and Reductress. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

 

“A Dark or Red Forest” by Jakub Tomczyk

 

“The Supply-Side Ouroboros” by Noah Lemelson
Noah Lemelson is a speculative fiction author and writing instructor based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from CalArts and now teaches Creative Writing at UCLA Extension. His debut novel, a dieselpunk fantasy noir, The Sightless City, was released by Tiny Fox Press. It was followed up by The Lioness and the Rat Queen, which received an award in the category “Steampunk” from the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. He has also had short stories published in online magazines such as Space Squid, Allegory, and Interzone.

 

“Roots’ Remembrance” by Jennifer S. Hane

 

“Will Everyone Please Rise” by Adam-Troy Castro

 

“Upcoast” by J.L. Rifkin
J. L. Rifkin is an author and scientist living in Toronto with two cats, numerous spiders, and one historian. Their fiction has appeared in Roses & Wildflowers and On Spec, and their nonfiction has appeared in Molecular Ecology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. (The fiction is usually more fun.) When not writing, they are most often found in their garden or halfway up a wall.

 

“Astounding and von Braun” by Edward M. Wysocki, Jr.
Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. continues his research into various aspects of science fiction. Part of this research has resulted in a series of articles for Analog. The major focus of his research is the inspiration of inventions by works of science fiction. This has led to his fourth book Rare Inventions: Did Science Fiction Inspire Them? which is available from Amazon. This book presents cases investigated after the appearance of his book Out of This World Ideas: And the Inventions They Inspired. His website is https://www.emwysocki.com

 

“Septo’s Taj” by R. R. Corvi
R. R. Corvi is the pen name of Timothy M. Brown, a retired astronomer living in Boulder, CO. He once studied solar and stellar seismology, as well as extrasolar planets. Now he writes fiction, most of which explores notions of practical and social sustainability on long time scales. When he is not writing, he hikes and skis with his wife Rosie, builds telescopes, bakes a mean lemon pie, and dotes on his grandchildren.

 

“Career Considerations for Starship Burglars” by Hans Ege Wenger
Hans Ege Wenger was born and raised in Maryland, but lives with his wife in the foggy Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. He’s an aid worker and activist, as well as a veteran of the US war in Afghanistan. Hans’ work has previously appeared in Escape Pod and is forthcoming in the Drabblecast.

 

“The Daughter” 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.

 

“Wee Man” by David McGillveray
David McGillveray was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but now lives with his family in London. As well as Analog, his fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone Digital, The Daily Tomorrow, and others. His story collection Forgotten Dragons, Plastic People is available on Amazon.

 

“Bright Points on the Quiet Sun” by Jody Rich
Jody Rich is an author of science fiction, horror, and historical stories, who lives in the Southern California desert with her husband and two dogs. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and the first novel in a trilogy set in 1920’s Los Angeles with fellow author C.E. King.

 

“Preggo Bomb” by J. R. Dewitt
J. R. Dewitt is a sci-fi writer whose only claim to fame is that Buzz Aldrin rode in his car. He likes birds. And robots. And the awesome, cinematic experience that is the 1956 film Rodan. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two kids. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, and more.

 

“Neomergence” by Paul E. Franz
Paul E. Franz is an attorney and writer living in Roswell, Georgia. His fiction has appeared in Analog, The Saturday Evening Post, Interzone, and The Georgia Bar Journal. When not practicing law or writing, heat tends to his lovely wife and daughters. You can find him on X at @paulefranz.

 

“Bella’s Heart” by A.T. Sayre
A.T. Sayre has been writing in some form or other since he was ten years old. His work has appeared in The Cosmic Background, Aurealis, Haven Speculative, and most notably in this very magazine, where his debut novel The Last Days of Good People, was published in July/August 2024, and was released as an audiobook by Dreamscape and an in print/digital by JAB Books in February 2025. His short story collection, Signals in The Static, was published in May 2024 by Lethe Press.

 

“The Reference Library” by Sean CW Korsgaard