In time-honored tradition, for our December episode we go hurtling back in time to review a science fiction magazine from the past. Get your flares, platform shoes and ghettoblasters ready as we head back to November 1974.
We're picking on Analog magazine, just because we've never reviewed it before. And it's only the longest-running SF magazine in exsitence. It started in 1930 as Astounding Stories, was renamed Analog in the 1960s, and continues under that name to this day. As we join it in 1974, it's in the early years of the editorship of Ben Bova, and is beginning to modernise.
If you'd like to browse through the issue with us, you can download it as a PDF from this link.
Other items mentioned in this episode include:
- Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man (1953)
- Joe Haldeman's The Forever War (1974)
- Cinefex magazine, now legitimately on the Internet Archive
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
- Ted Chiang's essay on generative AI in The New Yorker
Incidentally, in our next episode (released in January 2025) we'll be reviewing the current issue (Nov-Dec 2024) of Analog magazine to see how things have changed in fifty years!
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