Pros: Digest size. Fairly reasonable price. Cons: Articles are mediocre. So are many of the stories.
Analog is a strange magazine. Its full title is: Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It purports to be a serious science magazine that also features fiction. This is a fine line to walk. Omni also tried to walk this line, and failed ...
Pros: Excellent and enjoyable stories and articles Cons: Rather expensive
It's all the library's fault.
I was waiting for a bus on a really hot summer afternoon. The library was air-conditioned, and I had almost twenty minutes before my bus came... So I went into the library.
Pros: Real science articles and good science fiction stories Cons: Can be a little hard on the wallet
I've known about Analog for several years because I used to read copies that I found at doctor's offices or similar places when I was a kid. Back then, the art of the short story was lost on me, but I would read anything to keep from being bored....
Pros: last bastion of "hard" science fiction Cons: amateurish plots, clunky writing
They say that the golden age of Science Fiction is 13. That hasn't been true for me. Oh, I read science fiction at that age--Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke. But then I gave it up for more "sophisticated" fare--British mysteries, long literary novels...
I've been a scifi geek since the age of 13 (odd, puberty)...I blame my father since he sat me down with James Hogan's _Inherit the Stars_ and Asimov's _I, Robot_ and said "try this".
Pros: Great science fiction, thought-provoking editorials, interesting science fact Cons: I'm too busy to get around to reading the longer stories these days.
Analog is definitely the place to go for true "hard" science fiction, the literature of ideas (and gadgets). It hasn't been infested with the mushy touchy-feely stuff that's taken over so-called science fiction in many other publications since...
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