Authors in this Issue
“Red Ships” 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.
“When a Greenhouse Goes Wild” 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 recent book is Planets of the Known Galaxy: Fact and Fiction About the Nearest Stars and Their Worlds.
“Casual Brutality” by Michael T. Kuester
Michael T. Kuester is an aerospace engineer who lives and breathes all things sci-fi. When not writing, he fills his free time by reading scientific journals, hiking through fossil beds, and listening to Russian classical music. One of his stories will appear in the forty-second volume of the Writers of the Future anthology, due out in 2026.
“The Elegant Test” by David Horn
David Horn writes science fiction driven by scientific plausibility, human perseverance, and the eerie unknown that lurks between them. His work has been featured in Rooted Literary Magazine, Pomona Valley Review, AntipodeanSF, and the ELA Literary Magazine. He is the author of the science fiction novel The Glass Child and Signals from the Edge, a collection of short stories. A veteran and former police officer, he is a cybersecurity engineer by profession and a marine conservation graduate student by choice. He lives in Colorado with his wife, stepson, five unruly dogs, three cranky chickens, and a horse with strong editorial opinions.
“Dead God’s Algorithm” by Auston Habershaw
Auston Habershaw was told to write this story from an e-mail he got from space. He’s sure it’s probably nothing to be worried about. He has published stories in Analog, F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and other places. A collection of his Faceless stories, Faceless Galaxy, is on sale now. Find him at aahabershaw.com.
“Variables in the Drake Equation” by William Preston
“And Her Bones Made the Hills” by Mel Hubahib Loja
Mel Hubahib Loja lives in Quezon City, Philippines. He studied geology at the University of the Philippines and at the University of Hong Kong. He enjoys writing about dystopian futures with a hopeful twist. His favorite authors include Asimov, Philip K Dick, Frank Herbert, HG Wells and Sir Terry Pratchett.
“The Eemian” by J. A. Schultz
J. A. Schultz is an author living in the deserts of California. He is the author of ten novels, a caregiver, does photography as a hobby, and in the past he has worked in landscape design, assisting his mother in the raising of livestock, and creating attractions at a Renaissance Faire.
“The End of the Line” by William Paul Jones
William Paul Jones (he/him) is either a sci-fi/fantasy author or two golden retrievers wearing an overcoat so they can get into R-rated movies; it’s hard to say which. He studied writing at UNC Chapel Hill and currently lives nomadically in his RV, trying to find the best sunsets for wine drinking. His short fiction has been seen in Analog SF&F, Metastellar, Amazing Stories, and more. He often burns himself while performing circus acts, plays the guitar passably well, and is usually filled with roasted chicken and quinoa.
“The Inheritance” by Alyssa Abigail Aquino
Alyssa Abigail Aquino is a writer from New York City. She has a B.A. from Vassar College and reports on the financial and judicial world for the New York Law Journal. She previously reported on trade, immigration and defense issues for Law360. Her hobbies consist of various forms of escape—climbing, running and dreaming about worlds she’s yet to discover. She is working on her debut novel.
“A Sky for the End of the World” by Gregor Hartmann
One of the inspirations for this story was Eiheiji, the “temple of eternal peace,” 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.
“Conversations with Callie, or the Synthesis of Disdain and Love” by Lettie Prell
“Conversations with Callie” is Lettie Prell’s fifth story for Analog. Her novella, “Uploading Angela”, was a finalist for an Analog Analytical Laboratory award. Her short fiction has also appeared in Clarkesworld, Tordotcom, WIRED magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere. Several of her works have been reprinted in anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and The New Voices of Science Fiction, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, and French.
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.