Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine - January/February 2025

In this issue

New year, new fiction! Let’s kick things off right, with our lead story for 2025: “Our Lady of the Gyre,” from Douglas R. Franklin. In his own words, it’s “about the fraught relationship between inhabitants of a seaborne community and an orbital artificial intelligence tasked with mitigating climate change.” It’s a short story, but also the cover—once you get it in your hands, I think you’ll see why. We also have “Apartment Wars,” a novella from (relative) newcomer, Vera Brook: it’s an evocative look at the relationship between a physicist (and physicist’s widow) and her next-door neighbors in an Eastern European apartment block . . . but what role does their physics research play? Find out! We also have stories including Paul Di Filippo’s Vancian “Quest of the Sette Comuni”; a bit of judicious temporal intervention in Tom R. Pike’s “Strange Events at Fletcher and Front”; the collision of the past and present in a science mystery for the ages in Sean McMullen’s “The Prince of Spirals,” and plenty more, from John Shirley, Richard A. Lovett, Kelly Lagor, James Van Pelt, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jeffrey Benford, and others. You don’t want to miss it!