The Astounding Analog Companion

by Filip Wiltgren For a long time, I believed I couldn’t write science fiction because I Wasn’t A Scientist. A Scientist was an awe-inspiring, white-lab-coat-wearing,

by Brenda Kalt “The Trashpusher of Planet 4” [in our March/April issue, on sale now!] is one of my favorite stories to date. It began

by Matthew Claxton “The Acheulean Gift” [in our March/April issue, on sale now!] is a rare story—I can say exactly how the idea for this

A giant Pacific octopus, aquarium visitors with their camera flashes activated, and a twist on John Campbell’s criteria for hard science fiction walk into a

by J. Northcutt Jr. I can’t seem to turn away from that over-the-shoulder view, the idea that modernity is exceedingly bearable from my too-oft-taken Amero-centric

by Benjamin C. Kinney “Conference of the Birds” is my first short story in Analog (Jan/Feb 2021) [on sale now!], and it speaks to many