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Originally Posted by pdurrant
next up: Analog SFF for Jan/Feb 2017. Analog have had a double issue for Jan/Feb for some time now. I don't know yet whether they too have gone to all double issues.
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As usual, a collection of good stories. It looks like Analog is remaining on it's ten issues/year schedule, but I'll only be sure of that when the March issue turns up, not a March/April issue!
The cover-story novella, "The Proving Ground" by Alex Nevala-Lee, was an interesting ecological unexpected side-effects story.
There were four novellettes:
"Twilght's Captives" by Christopher L. Bennett was a well done distant-future culture clash between humans and aliens.
"The Shallowest Waves" was near-future human interest and space exploration in two time periods. It didn't do it for me.
"After the Harvest, Before the Fall" is a distant future dystopia of humans farmed for replacement bodies. It just didn't make sense to me.
"Whending My Way Back Home" continues (or starts?) the adventures of Martin and his AI companion Archie as they try to manipulate time to get back their home time stream. It will be better when put in novel form with other episodes.
Ten(!) short stories, of which my favourites were "Briz" by Jay Werkheiser and "Dall's Last Message" by Antha Ann Adkins, which were both alien-only stories.
The Probability Zero "Throw Me a Bone" was a fun paleontology story.
The various non-fiction was OK, but I skipped the poetry as usual.
Next up:
Grantville Gazette #69