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News January 7, 2020

Analog Jan/Feb 2020

Analog kicks off its year-long celebration of its 90th year of publication with Victoria Green’s retro cover design. Managing Editor Emily Hockaday shared a preview of the Mar/Apr cover, which appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 11, which is scheduled to release this Friday, January 10.

Contents Page
Stanley Schmidt’s Guest Editorial: A Major Milestone and Places We’ve Been
Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion “The Astronaut from Wyoming” (90th Anniversary Retrospective Reprint) The story is followed by reminiscences of the story by its authors.
Alec Nevala-Lee & M. Wysocki, Jr.’s Science Fact Making Waves: The Inventions of John W. Campbell
Rebecca Siegel “In Theory” (verse)
Harry Turtledove “The Quest for the Great Gray Mossy”
Sean McMullen “Wheel of Echoes” art uncredited
Jay Werkheiser “Hive” art by Eldar Zakirov
Eric Choi “The Greatest Day”
Eric Choi’s Science Fact Saving Columbia: An In-Flight Options Assessment
Robert Frazier “Ghost Transmission” (verse)
Rachel Rodman “The Evolutionary Alice” (Probability Zero)
Ian Randal Strock “Bulkheads Make the Best Neighbors”
John G. Cramer’s The Alternate View Renormalization: Dodging Infinities
Douglas F. Dluzen “Welcome to the New You: Terms and Conditions for the iCRISPR Gene-Editing Kit”
Izzy Wasserstein “The Grass Bows Down, the Pilgrims Walk Lightly” art by Kurt Huggins
Matthew Claxton “All the Turns of the Earth” art by Josh Meehan
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
A.J. Ward “One Lost Space Suit Way” art by Kurt Huggins
In Times to Come
Wendy Nikel “Around a World in Ninety-Six Hours
Gregor Hartmann “Birds of a Feather”
Richard A. Lovett “Guns Don’t Kill”
Joel Richards “Q-Ship Militant”
Sarina Dorie “The Shocking Truth About the Scientific Method that Privatized Schools Don’t Want You to Know”
C. Stuart Hardwick “Hubble Rising”
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
—The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham
—Cry Pilot by Joel Dane
—The Guardian by J.D. Moyer
—Hour of the Horde by Gordon R. Dickson
—Octavia Gone by Jack McDevitt
—Footprints in the Stars edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail
—Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction edited by Sunyoung Park & SangJoon Park
—The End of the World and Other Catastrophes edited by Mike Ashley
—Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction edited by Mike Ashley
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Classified Marketplace
2019 Index
Anlab Ballot
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 140 No. 1 & 2 Jan/Feb 2020
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Tomislav Tikulin
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Feb. 18, 2020
Analog website

SF Value Pack-8 $7.95
SF Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
SF Value Pack-16 $12.95

TDE Update December 23, 2019

Cover Preview

I’m taking a short holiday hiatus from blogging to focus on friends and family, and wrap up the final stages of work on The Digest Enthusiast No. 11, which is due early in January 2020.

When No. 11 launches, there will be a price increase on back issues. Finances are still a bit dicey, so the increase is intended to help keep this thing out of the red. So if you’re thinking about filling in any gaps in your collection, now would be a good time to purchase any back issues. As always, TDE reader and contributor support is greatly appreciated.

Our new cover is the work of the talented Rick McCollum, an artist I’ve admired since the 1980s. It’s wonderful to feature his work here. It depicts Madame Selina from her AHMM series by Janice Law, who talks about the Madame’s adventures and cast members in her interview inside No. 11. (More about No. 11 contents to come.)

Your daily digest history and news servings will recommence in January. Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!
-Richard Krauss

Interviews December 19, 2019

Needle Fall/Winter 2012

An excerpt from Michael Bracken’s interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:

TDE: One of your stories, “Yellow Ribbon” with series character Morris Boyette, ran in the Fall/Winter 2012 edition of Needle. Details that initially help flesh out the setting or characters, are later revealed to have greater significance, integral to the story. What’s the balance between serendipity and strategy as you plant these elements?

MB: For most stories it’s a combination of both. Because I often write the beginning with no clue where I’m going, I throw in a bunch of stuff just to set the scene, describe the protagonist, or establish the inciting incident. For example, in “Texas Sundown” (Down & Out: The Magazine No. 3), I wrote about a slice of cherry pie just because I wanted to describe a slice of cherry pie. Later, I realized that slice of pie foreshadowed the ending, so I mentioned it again in a way that added depth to the story that I had not imagined when I started writing.

Other times it’s much more deliberate. In the opening of “Dixie Quickies” (Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1), Tiny Campella stuffs a paperback novel in his back pocket. That and several other things mentioned in the first scene prove to be quite important late in the story, and most of them were intentional.

So, overall, I’d say serendipity and strategy play an equal role.

Needle Fall/Winter 2012
Contents Page
Steve Weddle: A Note from the Editor
Hugh Lessig “Victor Viral”
Brad Green “Seven Feet of Fire”
C.J. Edwards “A Hard Rep”
Erik Arneson “Mess With Me”
Rob W. Hart “Ginny Tonic”
Seamus Scanlon “No Witnesses”
Chris Rhatigan “Creator/Destroyer”
Ed Kurtz “Dog Will Hunt”
Kenneth Loosli “This Sorrow Is An Enemy”
John Kenyon “They All Look Alike”
Jeff Macfee “Trifecta”
Garnett Elliott “The Romero Covenant”
Glenn Gray “Venice Beach Birthday”
Michael Bracken “Yellow Ribbon”
Thomas Pluck “Gumbo Weather”
Timothy Friend “Dog Night”
Court Merrigan “The Scabrous Exploits…”
Kevin Adler “The Interview”
Kevin Brown “Two Birds, No Stone”
Stacey Cochran “Eddie & Sunny”
Matthew C. Funk “Everyone Know The Axeman”
Jim Winter “The Heckler”
Dan O’Shea “The Shroud of Turin”

Needle Magazine Fall/Winter 2012
Senior Editor: Steve Weddle
Editors: Naomi Johnson, Daniel O’Shea, Stephen Blackmoore, Matthew C. Funk
Creative Director Emeritus: John Honor Jacobs
Cover: Scott Morse
6” x 9” 248 pages
Print $10.75
Needle Magazine website

Vault December 17, 2019

True Crime Detective Summer 1952

This issue’s cover photograph first appeared on the cover of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in August 1949.

True Crime Detective Vol. 2 No. 3 Summer 1952
Contents Page
John Bartlow Martin per “Gene” “I Was a Successful Burglar”
Will Ourslet & Jerome Barry “Winston Churchill’s Strangest Case”
Edward D. Radin “Catspaw”
Howard Whitman “The Crime of Rape”
Morris Markey “The Mysterious Death of Starr Faithful”
Manly Wade Wellman “Hex Marks the Murder”
Here’s the Answer (readers’ crime-related Q&A)
Stewart H. Holbrook “Cleopatra of Puget Sound”
F. Tennyson Jesse “Mother and Son”
Joseph F. Dinneen “Murder in Massachusetts”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Bill Stone
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

News December 16, 2019

Nostalgia Digest Winter 2020

Contents
Steve Darnall: Hello, Out There in Radioland!
“A Few Moments with . . . Ben Vereen“
Phil Marsh “A Beautiful Mind” (Hedy Lamarr)
Harry Narunsky “What’s the (New) Good Word?”
Dan McGuire “At This Theatre Next Week!” Chapter 1 (Movie Serials)
Jordan Elliott “One Hour at a Time” (Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz)
Erik J. Martin “A Pal in Hollywood” (George Pal)
Annette Bochenek “Rochester”
Jim Dohren “What’s for Dinner at Our House?”
Stone Wallace “George Raft: Hollywood Hoodlum”
Mail Call

Plus, the Radio Program Guide for Those Were the Days and WGN Radio Theatre

Nostalgia Digest Winter 2020
Editor: Steve Darnall
5.5” x 8.5” 64 pages, b&w interior
$4.50 on newsstands
Four-issue subscription $17
Eight-issue subscription $30
Nostalgia Digest website

Opening Lines December 15, 2019

Opening Lines

“The heap of rags stirred in the hollow and a voice feebly murmured, ‘Botas . . . Botas.’”
“A Hint of Violence” by Morgan Lewis Western Magazine June 1955

Vault December 14, 2019

Galaxy Oct/Nov 1970

Contents Page
Letters (with Editor Ejler Jakobsson’s responses)
Robert Silverberg “The World Outside”
Harold Kraus “A New Life”
William T. Powers “Readout Time”
Galaxy Stars: Algis Budrys
William Earls “Traffic Problem”
Michael Bishop “Piñon Fall”
Robert A. Heinlein “I Will Fear No Evil” Part III

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 6 Oct/Nov 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Assoc. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan
5.25” x 7.75” 192 pages 75¢

Vault December 13, 2019

Fantastic August 1976

A sentence from Ted White’s editorial in this issue seems quite relevant to the current situation in Washington on this Friday the 13th:

“”Basically, we each bring our own attitudes to what we read—and we read the same things very differently.”

Contents Page
Ted White: Editorial
Avram Davidson “Bloody Man” art by Steve Fabian
Ova Hamlet “God of the Naked Unicorn” art by Daniel J. Steffan
Grania Davis “New-Way-Groovers Stew” art by Tony Gleeson
L. Sprague de Camp “Algy” art by Joe Staton
Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter “The Stairs in the Crypt” art by Richard Olson
Dennis More “The Atheling’s Wife” art by Steve Fabian
Steven Utley “OCean”
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
—Deathbed Stories by Harlan Ellison
—Gods, Men and Ghosts by Lord Dunsany
—Harrigan’s File by August Derleth
—Disclosures in Scarlet by Carl Jacobi
—The Miscast Barbarian by L. Sprague de Camp
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 4 August 1976
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Lou Stathis, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Steve Fabian
5.25” x 7.75” 132 pages $1.00

Vault December 12, 2019

Western Magazine April 1957

Contents Page
L.L. Foreman “Tramp Gunfighter” art by Carl Burgos
Philip Ketchum “Hell is Full of Heroes” art by Carl Burgos
Ed LaVanway “Deadline on the Elkhorn” art by Carl Burgos
Edward Carr “Fool’s Errand” art by Matt Baker

Western Magazine Vol. 3 No. 2 April 1957
Publisher: Martin Goodman
Editor: Harry Widmer
Business Manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Art Director: Mel Blum
Art Editor: Carl Burgos
~5.5” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢

Read Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story recap of Western Magazine in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8.

Interviews December 11, 2019

Pulp Adventures No. 27

One of the stories I read to prepare for the interview with Michael Bracken that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8 was “My Sister’s Husband.”

Although I didn’t ask a question about this particular story, it’s worth seeking out a copy of Pulp Adventures No. 27 to read it.

Synopsis
Tina lost touch with her sister’s husband, Gerald, after Cheryl died many years ago. After a chance meeting in a restaurant, the two become reacquainted and begin dating. On the surface the relationship builds smoothly, but underneath each questions what’s happening to them and their true feelings.

Pulp Adventures No. 27 Fall 2017
Contents Page
Audrey Parente: Editorial
Adam McFarland “Angels and Animals”
William Hope Hodgson “Jack Grey, Second Mate”
Dana Edward Johnson “The Green Mask”
Howard Hammerman “Not What I Ordered”
William Dudley Pelley “A Case at Law”
Max Brand “Hole-in-the-Wall Barrett”
Audrey Parente interviews Gary Bullock, Journeyman Actor
May Belleville Brown “A Repeating Romeo”
Michael Bracken “My Sister’s Husband”
Richard Brister “Sneak Thief”
Raymond J. Brown “Thirty Days on the Island”
H. Bedford-Jones “Irregular Brethern”

Publisher: Rich Harvey
Editor: Audrey Parente
Cover: Norman Saunders
7” x 10” 134 pages
Print $12.95
Bold Venture Press website