From the Editor
Welcome to Analog Science Fiction and Fact!
A lifelong appreciation of science fiction has led me to an incredibly fulfilling career with Analog, and I’m proud to carry on the magazine’s long-standing tradition of publishing the world’s finest science fiction and fact.
During my tenure at Analog, I’ve had the profound privilege of working with hundreds of authors, editors, TV producers, and many other notables in the science fiction field. As the editor of the longest-running SF publication in history, my personal mandate is to continue to provide the top-quality, ground-breaking hard science fiction that has characterized Analog since its launch. Welcome!
– Trevor Quachri
About the Editor
Trevor Quachri has been the Editor of the Hugo Award winning magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, since 2012.
Prior to taking over the reins at Analog, Trevor’s editorial skills were honed working with Stanley Schmidt (Analog Editor 1978-2012), Sheila Williams (Asimov’s Science Fiction Editor 2004-present), and Gardner Dozois (Asimov’s Editor 1986-2004). He brings to Analog a unique and reverent perspective on SF. In addition to his lifelong love of science fiction, Trevor draws upon his diverse past experiences – on Broadway, on special museum projects involving rigorous scientific data analysis, on collaboratively producing a pilot for a SF-based television show – to continue Analog’s storied tradition of ground-breaking hard science fiction.
Editorial: Rewriting the Inevitable
by David Ebenbach
AI is inevitable; there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Or so, at least, we’ve been told.
In fact, if the proponents of AI are to be believed, it’s not even a matter of an inevitable future so much as an already-established present. The phrase “AI Is Here” has shown up in headlines in the Wall Street Journal (Noonan, 2025), Forbes (Harmon, 2026), and World Economic Forum (MacDonald & Madzou, 2020), as well as at various institutions of higher education (cf. Central Michigan University, 2026; Pace University, n.d., Goddard, 2018). Headlines at PR Daily (2026), The Hill (Tsipursky, 2026), and others have taken it further: “AI Is Here to Stay.” Similarly, in a 2025 New York Times piece, David Brooks wrote, “A.I. isn’t going anywhere.” Two years earlier, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar had already said that “the only thing you can do—and you have to do—is get to the station, board the train, and be part of the process of shaping where it goes” (Basiouny, 2023). READ MORE