Gardner R. Dozois

Stanley Schmidt

A collection of alternative history stories includes works by Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, and Harry Turtledove, that blend fiction and fact to recast history's most dramatic events

Tales of Alternate History

Roads Not Taken

Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction from Analog

Adam-Troy Castro

Jerry Oltion

To understand Alexander, you must first understand his time. It was an age when the universe had been opened for us. We knew how to look at objects a thousand light years away, and map the molecules that gave them form; we knew how things were put together and how they could be taken apart; we knew how the universe began and how it was likely to end. We knew how to reason, and how to discover, and how to add new pages to our increasing store of information. It was also an age when ignorance was enshrined over knowledge. . . .

With Stars in Their Eyes

A collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories from the annals of Unknown worlds magazine

Tales from Beyond

Unknown Worlds

In a near-future world, a series of unusual insect stings causes bizarre mental disturbances in its victims, a situation that leads to the discovery that an unknown force is launching attacks that the government is reluctant to believe. Reprint.

Argonaut

A collection of thirty-five provocative essays from the acclaimed editor of Analog magazine discusses such topics as scientific orthodoxy, the flaws of our education systems, the power of humor, and the hard choices between jobs and conversation. Reprint.

Selected Essays From Analog (R)

Which Way to the Future?

Analog's Children of the Future

Bill Nordstrom had no idea how to reunite a squirrel-like alien with its own kind, but with the help of a sympathetic lawyer and her daughter, he set out to try. But the government wanted Tweedlioop the alien for its own, and Bill, Danni and Laurie were in for some exciting escapades.

Tweedlioop

From a misty beach in Massachusetts to worlds both distant and alien, some of the best writers in science fiction—some old favorites like Robert J. Sawyer and Stephen Baxter, some up-and-coming—explore some of the many places our future may take us. You’ll find problems we face right now, as in Edward M. Lerner’s “The Night of the RFIDs” and Richard A. Lovett’s “Tiny Berries”; and others that may (or may not?) be much farther down the road, like the very alien viewpoints in Juliette Wade’s “Cold Words” and Carl Frederick’s “The Universe Beneath Our Feet.” You’ll find engaging characters like the very young extraterrestrial with a critical mission (in the White House) and an unforgiving deadline in David D. Levine’s “Pupa,” and the retired astronaut with Alzheimer’s who must remotely salvage a Moon mission in Marianne J. Dyson’s “Fly Me to the Moon.” All are guaranteed to entertain and to make you think in ways you’ve never thought before.

Into the New Millennium: Trailblazing Tales From Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000-2010

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare Stanley Schmidt guides you toward a better understanding of our universe to create beings who will live in your science fiction. Aliens and Alien Societies explains science to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll avoid bringing characters from solar systems unlikely to support life. Discover the galaxy's vastness and imagine the technology needed to cross it. Put biochemistry on your side to put viable creatures on your pages. Learn how engineering shapes life and why this suggests that intelligent inhabitants of other planets might have similarities to humans. Develop well-founded cultures and logical languages. Introduce aliens to people or other aliens. Portray them as individuals, true to their species. In this book, possibilities abound and lines between knowledge and conjecture blur enthrallingly. Aliens and Alien Societies is thoughtful, clear and utterly fascinating. It is filled with facts to help you write believable fictions about the things in heaven and earth.

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