This time we have another one of our (made-up) time-honored traditions: reviewing a current science fiction magazine. We usually do this once a year, to keep on top of current SF trends - and also to compare & contrast current magazines with the SF magazines of the past.
In our last episode, we went back 50 years to review ANALOG from 1974.
This time, we're bang up-to-date (almost) with a very recent issue of the very same magazine. Analog is the longest-continuously-running SF magazine, having been around under various titles since the 1930s!
What will we make of Analog's longstanding reputation for "hard SF"? How does the magazine stack up against its wholly online competitors such as Clarkesworld and Uncanny? How does it stack up against its former self?
No quiz this time, but we finish off with our usual round-up of recommendations of past/present/future science fiction.
Among the items mentioned in today's show:
- Analog magazine home page
- Phil's interview-from-another-podcast with Howard V. Hendrix
- The Jenny Williams whose story appears in this issue of Analog (not to be confused with several other Jenny Williamses!)
- Wallace & Gromit return in Vengeance Most Fowl
- Doctor Who returns in Joy to the World
- It's forty years(!) since the release of the classic SF movies Brazil and Enemy Mine
- New Scientist magazine's list of the best SF stories of all time
- Titan Books' new volume on The Making of Star Trek III: The Searh for Spock
Here's the episode. Enjoy!
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Hello Colin and Phil. This is Matt McHugh, author of "If This Flesh Were Thought." I just wanted to say thank you for the nice mention of my story on Episode 50 of your Science Fiction 101 podcast. I enjoyed your insights on various topics and will add you to my listening list. Thanks again and all the best.
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