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Just curious. http://www.analogsf.com is a monthly sci-fi and fact magazine that has been around since 1938, formerly as "Astounding Science Fiction." The stories are classified as "hard" sci-fi, and the stories tend to have a more gritty and lest fantastical feel than most popular sci fi. Your more likely to read about a generation ship, or exploration of our own solar system, it's planets and moons, rather than warp drives, teleportation devices etc. (FTL travel happens occasionally to drive a story along, but I have yet to see anybody get "beamed" anywhere).
The science involved isn't always physics but might be biology, chemistry, genetics, or linguistics (in the case of regular contributor Juliette Wade, whose stories tend to be based on cultural linguistics).
The magazine also includes fact articles, which are not as technical as a dissertation but probably above the level of any popular science magazines. Sometimes a fiction story will be followed or preceded by a fact article pertaining to the science within the story.
Several of the regular contributors hang out on the forums associated with the website(above.) A lot of my renewed interest in science and the inspiration to go back into academia stems from reading this magazine and talking to the contributors here, including of whom are physicists, biologists, anthropologists, linguists etc. If one of your goals includes writing sci-fi then these are great people to connect with. Occasionally Analog has a story about the writing process itself.
Anyway, just wondering if anybody here is a fan or if there is even any forum crossover.
-DaveKA
The science involved isn't always physics but might be biology, chemistry, genetics, or linguistics (in the case of regular contributor Juliette Wade, whose stories tend to be based on cultural linguistics).
The magazine also includes fact articles, which are not as technical as a dissertation but probably above the level of any popular science magazines. Sometimes a fiction story will be followed or preceded by a fact article pertaining to the science within the story.
Several of the regular contributors hang out on the forums associated with the website(above.) A lot of my renewed interest in science and the inspiration to go back into academia stems from reading this magazine and talking to the contributors here, including of whom are physicists, biologists, anthropologists, linguists etc. If one of your goals includes writing sci-fi then these are great people to connect with. Occasionally Analog has a story about the writing process itself.
Anyway, just wondering if anybody here is a fan or if there is even any forum crossover.
-DaveKA
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