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News November 11, 2018

Analog Nov/Dec 2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #11 & 12 Nov/Dec 2018
Contents
Edward M. Lerner’s Guest Editorial: Dystopic? Or Myopic?
G. David Nordley “Empress of Starlight”
Marianne Dyson: In Defense of the Planet (Science Fact)
Stephen L. Burns “Pandora’s Pantry” art by Joel Iskowitz
Sarina Dorie “The Gleaners”
Rich Larson “Smear Job”
C. Stuart Hardwick “A Measure of Love”
Tom Jolly “Learning the Ropes” art by Vincent DiFate
Eric Pinder “Past Pluto” (verse)
Christopher L. Bennett “Hubstitute Creatures”
J.T. Sharrah “The Light Fantastic”
Kathryn Fritz “Collisions” (verse)
John G. Cramer’s The Alternate View: Icecube and the Source of Cosmic Rays
Marissa Lingen “The Jagged Bones of Sea-Saw Town”
Bruce McAllister “Sandy”
In Times to Come (Jan/Feb preview)
Biolog: Bruce McAllister by Richard A. Lovett
Filip Wiltgren “Dad’s War” art by Kevin Speidell
Christopher McKitterick “Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust”
Richard A. Lovett’s Guest Alternate View: Air on the Moon (Really)
Eric James Stone “The 7 Most Massive Historic Mistakes in Gunmaster of the Carloards”
Jerry Oltion “The Ascension”
Jay Parks “Left Turn”
Cynthia Ward “Body Drift”
Joyce and Stanley Schmidt “Mixipoxi Learns to Drive” art by Eldar Zakirov
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Classified Marketplace
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Eldar Zakirov
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
Analog website

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

News October 24, 2018

Terror at the Crossroads

A new horror anthology under the Dell Magazines imprint, Eris Press, titled Terror at the Crossroads: Tales of Horror, Delusion, and the Unknown, edited by Emily Hockaday and Jackie Sherbow and taken from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, is now available.

The collection features stories from Kit Reed, David Brin, Tara Laskowski, Alec Nevala-Lee, Will McIntosh, Louis Bayard, Zandra Renwick, Chris Beckett, Barbara Nadel, Rachel L. Bowden, Stephen Ross, Paddy Kelly, Jason Half, Kurt Bachard, O.A. Tynan, Seth Frost, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Teresa Solana, A.J. Wright, Josh Pachter, and Megan Arkenberg.

The anthology is currently available on Amazon and will soon be available via other digital platforms.

Eris Press will be holding a digital launch for the anthology on Wednesday, October 31: a day-long event featuring book giveaways, twenty-minute Twitter AMAs with authors including Alec Nevala-Lee, Chris Beckett, and Josh Pachter, video readings, Q&As, costumed author photos, and more. To follow the event, stay up to date with @ErisPress.

This collection brings readers demonic encounters, the apocalypse and post-apocalypse, ghostly apparitions, mad scientists, demented artists, monsters, and plenty of bizarre and frightening experiences that will stay with you well beyond its pages. Join @ErisPress this Halloween for their digital launch!

News September 3, 2018

Analog Sep/Oct 2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #9 & 10 Sep/Oct 2018
Contents
Richard A. Lovett’s Guest Editorial: Colliding Icebergs
Bill Johnson “Go Random, My Love”
Jay Werkheiser: Alien Biochemistry: Embracing the Carbon Chauvinist (Science Fact)
In Times to Come (Nov/Dec preview)
Effie Seiberg “Optimizing the Verified Good” art by Tomislav Tikulin
Josh Pearce “Three-Body” (verse)
Gregory Benford “A Surprise Beginning”
Ron Collins “When the Rain Comes”
Adam-Troy Castro “The Unnecessary Parts of the Story”
Bruce Boston “Intuitive Leaps” (verse)
Sean McMullen “The Pendant Lens”
Christopher L. Bennett “…And He Built a Crooked Hub” art by Josh Meehan
Premee Mohamed “Shepherd Moon”
Martin L. Shoemaker “It Came from the Coffee Maker”
John G. Cramer: The Alternate View: Vacuum Birefringence and Neutron Stars
Elizabeth Rubio “Nevertheless”
Larry Hodges’ Probability Zero: The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall
Harry Lang “Off-Road”
Tony Ballantyne “Trapezium”
Biolog: Tony Ballantyne by Richard L. Lovett
Darren Speegle “Black Shores”
Shane Landry “Impetus” art by Josh Meehan
Edward M. Lerner “Harry and the Lewises”
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Classified Marketplace
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Joel Iskowitz
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until October 23, 2018
Analog website

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

News July 3, 2018

Analog Jul/Aug 2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #7 & 8 Jul/Aug 2018
Contents
Marianne J. Dyson’s Guest Editorial: Gender Parity in Space: Now and in the Future
The Analytical Laboratory (2017 readers’ vote results)
Adam-Troy Castro “A Stab of the Knife”
Derek Künsken: The Science Behind “The Quantum Magician” (Science Fact)
Robert Frazier “The Long Night Watch” (verse)
Frank Wu “Until We Are Utterly Destroyed” art by Tomislav Tikulin
Evan Dicken “Generations Lost and Found”
Kris Dikeman “A Simple Question”
Alex Shvartsman & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro “The People v. Craig Morrison”
Joe Pitkin “Potosi” art by Vincent DiFate
John G. Cramer: The Alternate View: Cryptocurrency and Quantum Computing
James Robert Herndon “Eulogy for an Immortal” art by Eldar Zakirov
Mary E. Lowd “Welcome to the Arboretum, Little Robot”
G.O. Clark “Keck” (verse)
Daniel James Peterson’s Probability Zero: Preface to The Handbook of Social Treatments for Conceptual Allergies
In Times to Come (Sep/Oct preview)
Andy Duncan “New Frontiers of the Mind”
Alec Nevala-Lee: The Campbell Machine (special feature)
M. Bennardo “Here’s Looking at You, Cud”
Eduardo Vaquerizo “Render Unto Caesar” translation by Rich Larson
Mary Soon Lee “Extracts from the Captain’s Notes: First Crew to Saturn’s Moons”
C. Stuart Hardwick “Open Source Space”
Richard A. Lovett’s The Guest Alternative View: Eclipse Unity
Jacob A. Boyd “Priorities”
Auston Habershaw “A Crystal Dipped in Dreams” art by Joel Iskowitz
Marissa Lingen “Left to Take the Lead”
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Classified Marketplace
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: NASA
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until August 21, 2018
Analog website

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

News May 7, 2018

Analog May/Jun 2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #5 & 6 May/Jun 2018
Contents
Trevor Quachri: Editorial: Thank-You Notes
Wil McCarthy “The Last Biker Gang” art by Joel Iskowitz
James & Dominic Benford: Science Fact: Seeing Alien Tech
In Times to Come
Christopher L. Bennett “Hubpoint of No Return” art by Josh Meehan
Marissa Lingen “Finding Their Footing”
Kate MacLeod “Being Neighborly”
Robert Reed “Two Point Oh”
John Richard Trtek “Within the Dyson Sphere” (verse)
Tim McDaniel: Probability Zero: Another View of the Matter Addressed in Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
John G. Cramer: The Alternate View: Can We Cure Aging?
Marie Vibbert “The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart”
Buzz Dixon “While Your Sleep, Computer Mice Earn Their Keep” art by Kevin Speidell
Sam J. Miller “My Base Pair”
Richard A. Lovett: The Guest Alternative View: The Mundane Space Revolution and Disease Prevention from Orbit
Mary Soon Lee “Prime Development Opportunity: Dirt”
Alison Wilgus “A Barrow for the Living”
William Shunn “Telegraph” (verse)
Ian Creasey “Shooting Grouse” art by Eldar Zakirov
Stephen L. Burns “Mission Accomplished”
William Ledbetter “Vigilance”
Derek Künsken “The Quantum Magician, Conclusion” art by Josh Meehan
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Classified Marketplace
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Assistant Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Fred Gambino
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until June 19, 2018
Analog website

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

News February 24, 2018

Analog Mar/Apr 2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #3 & 4 Mar/Apr 2018
Contents
Stanley Schmidt: Time and Time Again (Guest Editorial)
Alec Nevala-Lee “The Spires” art by Vincent DiFate
C. Stuart Hardwick: Taming the Genie: How Fear of the Atom Threatens Our Future (Science Fact)
Suzanne Palmer “The Steaming Man”
In Times to Come
Rich Larson “Razzibot”
Gwendolyn Clare “The Selves We Leave Behind”
Tom Ligon “Beek”
Brian Trent “An Incident on Ishtar”
Brendan DuBois “The Tail Gunner’s Lament”
Bruce McAllister “Engineered” (verse)
Jerry Oltion “Sicko”
Mary A. Turzillo “Car Talk”
John G. Cramer: When Virgo Joined Ligo (The Alternate View)
Bruce McAllister “Frog Happy”
Susan Forest “Sun Splashed Fields and Far Blue Mountains”
Nick Wolven “Lab B-15”
Gregory Benford “Physics Tomorrow: A News Item of the Year 2116”
Bill Pronzini “The Being” (Probability Zero)
James Van Pelt “Big Thompson”
Tom Jolly “The Camel’s Tail” art by Tomislav Tikulin
Richard A. Lovett: Tom Jolly (Biolog)
Mary Soon Lee: “Venus, As It Might Have Been” (verse)
Derek Künsken “The Quantum Magician” part 2, art by Josh Meehan
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Classified Marketplace
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Assistant Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Donato Giancola
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until April 24, 2018
Analog website

News January 27, 2018

2017 Total Paid Distribution

The release of the Jan/Feb issues of Dell’s digest magazines marks the first year of their bi-monthly, double-issue format. The issues also provide the publisher’s statements of ownership, which include the average number of copies for a variety of categories, over a preceding 12-month period, for the print editions.

Magazines print more copies than they sell through subscriptions and newsstands. For the big five digests, excess inventory is offered in Value Packs on their websites. A great opportunity for readers to try out recent issues of a title at a fraction of its regular price.

Dell and F&SF sell far more issues via subscriptions than newsstands. For the most part, combining the two gives you the total paid circulation. However, it’s important to note these numbers don’t include digital sales, which are likely on the rise. Below is the “total paid distribution” from Jan/Feb 2017 and 2018 of the print editions:

AHMM
2017 13,527
2018 12,962

Analog
2017 19,963
2018 18,957

Asimov’s
2017 13,978
2018 13,320

Ellery Queen
2017 16,472
2018 15,486

F&SF
2017 11,108
2018 11,429

Except for F&SF, the year-over-year numbers show declines of ~500–1000. Is this due to thicker, less frequent issues, general magazine publishing trends, distribution challenges, or something else? Without numbers on digital edition sales, it’s unclear. But I will share some anecdotal evidence about my experience buying the Jan/Feb 2018 issue of AHMM. (I generally buy magazines at a newsstand to avoid subscription mailing labels.)

Shortly after the new Dell books were out, I went to Rich’s Cigar Store on SW Alder, which to my knowledge is the largest magazine shop in Portland, Oregon. Dell’s two SF digests were there, but not AHMM. They still had five copies of the previous issue on display.

After the holidays I tried Powell’s in Cedar Hills. They had EQMM and F&SF, but no Hitchcock. A week or two later I called Powell’s to see if it had arrived. The CSR couldn’t locate the issue or the title, despite the fact that I have purchased it there before.

My fallback is wwnewstand on ebay, but as of yesterday they still were not offering it.

I finally found a copy at Barnes & Nobel at Bridgeport Village. After my purchase, there was only one remaining. I also learned you could buy a single issue AHMM from the B&N website. Good to know of another backup option.

I think the difficulty points to the distributor. When I asked for an issue of Strand Magazine at Rich’s one day this fall, the manager told me they were never quite sure what the distributor was going to give them. Apparently, in the case of the current AHMM—zero. As of my last trip there in mid-January, Rich’s still had five copies of Nov/Dec 2017 on display.

Genre digest publishers—even the big five—have their challenges. If you like what they do, please support them at the newsstand, online, or through subscriptions. The world needs stories, and they publish some of the best.

Note: Total paid distribution numbers for Fate and Nostalgia Digest are not listed here, as I didn’t find any Statements of Ownership in recent issues.

News January 5, 2018

Analog Jan/Feb 2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #1 & 2 Jan/Feb 2018
Contents
Stanley Schmidt: Educational Challenge (Guest Editorial)
Derek Künsken “The Quantum Magician” part 1
Julie Novakova: Hell Is Other Planets (Science Fact)
Michael F. Flynn “The Journeyman: Through Madness Gap” art by Tomislav Tikulin
Mary A. Turzillo: “Hobson’s Choices”
Alan Dean Foster “Ten and Ten”
Paul Carlson: Margin of Error (Probability Zero)
Andrew Barton “One to Watch”
In Times to Come
John G. Cramer: Do Black Holes Really Exist? (The Alternate View)
Holly Schofield “Home on the Free Range” art by Kurt Huggins
David Gerrold “Endless City”
Ian Watson “When the Aliens Stop to Bottle” art by Kevin Speidell
Marissa Lingen “Two Point Three Children”
D.A. Xiaolin Spires “Atomic Numbers” (verse)
Eric Cline “Air Gap”
Jeremiah Tolbert “The Dissonant Note” art by Eldar Zakirov
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Adam-Troy Castro “Blurred Lives”
Bruce Boston “Wife of a Particle Physicist” (verse)
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Classified Marketplace
Brass Tacks (Letters)
2017 Index
Anlab Ballot
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Analog Jan/Feb 2018

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Assistant Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Josh Meehan “The Quantum Magician”
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Feb. 20, 2018
Analog website