Authors in this Issue

“Uncle Roy’s Computer Repairs and Used Robot Parts” by Martin L. Shoemaker
Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side . . . or maybe it’s the other way around. This is his twelfth appearance in Analog. His novel The Last Dance, was published by 47North in November 2019. The sequel, The Last Campaign, was published in October 2020.

“Salvage Operation” by Michael Capobianco
Michael Capobianco is coauthor, with William Barton, of the hard SF novels Iris, Alpha Centauri, Fellow Traveler, and White Light and the author of two solo science fiction novels, Burster and Purlieu. Capobianco served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 1996-1998 and again in 2007–2008. When not writing, he obsesses over the images coming back from robotic spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system, roots for the Washington Nationals baseball team, and volunteers for a number of SFWA committees. Capobianco lives in Southern Maryland with a gray cat named after the Uranian moon Ariel.

“Money, Wealth, and Soil” by Lance Robinson
When he is not writing speculative fiction, Lance Robinson is an environmental social scientist who researches the human dimensions of natural resource management.  He makes his home in the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, within the territory of the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850 on the traditional land of the Anishnaabeg peoples and Fort William First Nation.  He can be found at lancerobinsonwriter.com.

“Small Minds” by Tom Jolly
Tom Jolly is a retired astronautical/electrical engineer. His short stories have appeared in Analog SF, Daily Science Fiction, New Myths, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and several anthologies, and can be heard from wandering storytellers if you buy them an ale on a warm afternoon. You can follow him at Facebook (@TJWriter) and Threads (@tomjolly19) and find his novels and short fiction on his Amazon author page or his website: https://sites.google.com/view/tomjolly/home. He lives near Port Orchard, Washington, with his wife, Penny.

“The Dark at the End of the Tunnel” by Edward M. Lerner
Ed’s short fiction has appeared in anthologies, collections, and—most often—Analog. His novels range from near-future technothrillers to traditional SF to SFnal mysteries to (with Larry Niven) the space-opera epic Fleet of Worlds series. His 2015 novel, InterstellarNet: Enigma, won the inaugural Canopus Award “honoring excellence in interstellar writing,” while other of his fiction has been nominated for Locus, Prometheus, and Hugo awards. Life and Death on Mars is his latest novel.

“Making Gnocchi at the End of the World” by Kelly Lagor
Kelly Lagor is a scientist by day and speculative fiction writer by night. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in places like Analog, Asimov’s, Tor.com, and Uncanny. You can keep up with her and her work on her website: kellylagor.com, or on various social media places as @klagor.

“Float Where We Will” by Sean Monaghan
Sean Monaghan studied creative writing at the University of Queensland, but now resides back in his hometown in provincial New Zealand. His stories have previously appeared in Analog as well as Asimov’s and at Baen.com. Preparing to complete his Karnish River Navigations SF series of twelve novels in 2024, he’s recently opened his own online store so readers can buy directly from him. www.seanmonaghan.com. 

“Expert Witness” by Leonard Richardson
Leonard Richardson lives in New York City and writes science fiction and software, including the Python library Beautiful Soup. His two novels, Constellation Games and Situation Normal, are published by Candlemark & Gleam. He has a blog at www.crummy.com.

“Project Desert Sparrow” by Chana Kohl
Chana Kohl works in Jerusalem in clinical trials and research, writing speculative fiction in her spare time. Her original short fiction has previously appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Stupefying Stories, AntipodeanSF and 365 Tomorrows. She was the recipient of the 2022 Analog Emerging Black Voices Award and is an active member of Codex. For updates, please visit her blog: www.chanakohl.wordpress.com

“Fertile Imagination” by Tim Stevens & Frank Wu
Frank Wu is, inter alia, an author, artist, amateur paleontologist and sesquipedalian. He does most of his writing covered with puppies while his mind travels untrammeled through time and space, seeking unusual and unnecessary words. “Fertile Imagination” is his seventh publication in Analog, after four solo stories and two novellas co-written with Jay Werkheiser, most recently “Poison” (about the war with giant space centipedes) in the May/June 2023 issue. Find him and his paintings of dinosaurs playing guitar at http://www.frankwu.com.

“Susan Rose Sees Mars as the First Frontier” by Charles Velasquez-Witosky
Charles Velasquez-Witosky is a writer and producer whose work spans film, theatre, comics, and prose. For the past few years, he’s made a living helping others develop film and television projects. He lives on the East Coast with his fiancée and their two incorrigible dogs. This is his first time being published in Analog.

“Perturbations” by Amanda Dier
An emergency dispatcher by day, Amanda has previously appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The NoSleep Podcast, and other markets. She lives in Florida with her partner and dog in a carefully curated carnivorous plant and orchid forest. When she isn’t writing, she’s watching rocket launches and dreaming of distant stars.

“Tohu Bohu” by Zohar Jacobs
Zohar Jacobs is a Jewish writer who grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in the UK. She has a PhD in Modern History from the University of Oxford and works in cultural policy. A graduate of Viable Paradise, she has work published or forthcoming in the Sunday Morning Transport, Asimov’s and Clarkesworld. You can find her on Twitter @zoharjacobs.

“The Pure Bliss of Contrapuntal Existence” by Michael Panetta
Michael Panetta lives in a small town in the Northeastern United States with his wife and two cats. He spends his days driving forklifts and his mornings writing stories that he hopes entertain readers. He can be found on Twitter/X as @MPanetta1989. His fiction has been published in Daily Science Fiction. This is his first appearance in Analog.

“More and Less and New” by Aimee Ogden
Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her latest novella, Emergent Properties, came out in July 2023, and her short fiction has previously appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld. This is her seventh appearance in Analog.

“Mayflies” by Richard A. Lovett
When he was young, Richard A. Lovett read classic science fiction and dreamed of writing for Analog. He also dreamed of getting a Ph.D. in astrophysics and studying cosmology. Instead, he got a Ph.D. in a wildly different field, became a newspaper and magazine journalist, and gave up on science fiction. Until Analog columnist John G. Cramer encouraged him to submit a science fact article. Since then he’s been in Analog nearly 200 times, in all departments ranging from fact to fiction. Eighteen of his best fact articles are collected in Here Be There Dragons: Exploring the Fringes of Human Knowledge, available in print and eBook on Kindle and Amazon.com, and his popular Floyd & Brittney stories are now a novel-length book, Neptune’s Treasure, on the same sites. Find him on Facebook or at www.richardalovett.com.

“Voices, Still and Present” by Mark W. Tiedemann
Mark W. Tiedemann has been publishing stories since 1990. His novel Compass Reach was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award and Remains for the Tiptree. As of this year, he has sold over 70 short stories and published 13 books. A native St. Louisan, he has actually set two novels in his home town, the novel Realtime and his brand new just released book from Blank Slate Press, Granger’s Crossing. The latter is (shock!) Not Science Fiction, but an historical novel set in the 1780s. He still lives in St. Louis.

“Seven” by Roderick Leeuwenhart
Roderick Leeuwenhart writes SF from a Dutch angle and frequently dreams about East Asia. He won the 2016 Harland Awards, the Netherlands’ top prize for speculative fiction. His work is translated all the way to China. Star Body and The Gentlemen XVII are his most recent novels.

“Meow” by Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg is one of the most prolific and esteemed science fiction authors living today. Before going on to win three Locus Awards and six Nebula Awards, he won his first Hugo Award in 1956 for Most Promising New Author. Silverberg currently writes the “Reflections” column for Asimov’s Science Fiction, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Karen. 

The Science Behind “The Dark End of the Tunnel” by Joey Huston
Joey Huston is the MSU Foundation Professor of high energy physics at Michigan State University, and currently conducts most of his research on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva Switzerland, with a focus on Higgs boson production. He is an expert on Quantum Chromodynamics and is an author of the book “The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics, a Primer for the LHC”. He is an author on over 2000 publications but is looking forward to his first in Analog.  He is also still waiting for his first Nobel prize.

“Zipf’s Lottery and Big Rocks From Space” by Howard V. Hendrix
Howard V. Hendrix is the author of six novels, many works of shorter fiction (collected in several volumes, most recently The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes), many essays (scholarly and opinion/analysis pieces), and poems.  He is also author, editor, or coeditor of seven nonfiction books.  He taught at the college level for many years. His recent work appears regularly in Star*Line, the San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, and Analog. He has at one time or another also served as head of SFWA’s Credits and Ethics Committee, as SFWA Western Regional Director, and as SFWA Vice President. Most recently served as juror for SFPA’s Rhysling Award.

Alternate View: A Black Hole in Our Sun? by John G. Cramer
Hard SF Novels: John’s new third hard SF novel, Fermi’s Question, and its prequel, his second hard SF novel Einstein’s Bridge, are available as eBooks from Baen Books at: https://www.baen.com/fermi-s-question.html and https://www.baen.com/einstein-s-bridge.html. His first hard SF novel Twistor is available online at: https://www.amazon.com/Twistor-John-Cramer/dp/048680450X Nonfiction: John’s 2016 nonfiction book The Quantum Handshake—Entanglement, Nonlocality, and Transactions, (Springer, January 2016) is available online: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319246402 Alternate View Columns Online: Electronic reprints of 229 or more of “The Alternate View” columns written by John G. Cramer and previously published in Analog are currently available online at: http://www.npl.washington.edu/av.

The Reference Library by Sean C.W. Korsgaard
Sean CW Korsgaard is a U.S. Army veteran, award-winning freelance journalist, author, editor, and publicist who has worked with Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Baen Books, and Writers of the Future. His first anthology, Worlds Long Lost, was released in December 2022, as was his debut short story, “Black Box.” He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and child, along with, depending on who you ask, either far too many or far too few books.