Brian C. Coad hails originally from the English county of Cornwall, but now resides in San Francisco, California. The author, a metallurgist, has sold over a half-dozen stories to Analog and has spent most of his career working on aerospace and...
The distressing thing about Kandis Elliot’s new story is “how much of it isn’t fiction. The Virtual Harvesters and their capabilities, for example. El Cappa and Manantlán. The rats of Birge Hall (to a point). Nonetheless, one of the...
The author has recently been traveling back and forth from his home in Ohio to Pasadena, California, where he was working as a scientist on the Mars Pathfinder Mission. Now he sends his unusual astronaut on a dangerous journey into the heart of...
As tragedy, media coverage, and political upheavals continue to take their toll on monarchies, future commoners will be lucky to see the crown fall to a man as just...
Our last story, “The Gallery of His Dreams” (September 1991), by the Hugo-award-winning former editor of F&SF, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, won the 1991 Locus Award for best short fiction. Ms. Rusch has had fifteen novels published under her own...
Eydrth is a Master Songsmith... who has no magic. She will do anything to save her father from the evil that has stolen his mind. But the paths to the magic of the Witch World are many—and to save the ones you love, the truest magic must come from...
To a Formula One driver, speed, wheel-to-wheel combat and danger are all part of everyday life. Things turn sinister at the Monaco Grand Prix — when Remy Sabatino’s car is sabotaged. Then Remy’s teammate suffers a death-defying crash. Are...
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award — Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he...