Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:24
Jeffery D. Kooistra
 Jeffery D. Kooistra is a science fiction writer, a free-lance physicist, and a father of three. His opinions, observations, and cranky ideas appear in every other issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, in that magazine's "The Alternate View" feature. He is a member of SIGMA, a collection of SF writers who do think-tanking and consulting as a public service (http://www.sigmaforum.org). He's also a member of the high IQ Triple Nine Society (http://www.triplenine.org) which his family doesn't let him forget when he does something stupid.
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Monday, 24 August 2009 18:26
Gregory Benford & Michael R. Rose
 Gregory Benford has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.
His 1999 analysis of what endures, Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia, has been widely read. A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, he continues his research in both astrophysics and plasma physics. Time allowing, he continues to write both fiction and nonfiction. Recently he began a series on science and society with biologist Michael Rose, published on the Internet at Amazon Shorts.com.
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:45
Stanley Schmidt
 Stanley Schmidt was born in Cincinnati and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He  began selling stories while a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. He continued freelancing while an assistant professor at Heidelberg College in Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy, science fiction, and other oddities. (He was introduced to his wife, Joyce, by a serpent while teaching field biology in a place vaguely resembling that well-known garden.) He has contributed numerous stories and articles to original anthologies and magazines including Analog, Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Rigel, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, American Journal of Physics, Camping Journal, Writer's Digest, and The Writer. He has edited or coedited about a dozen anthologies. Since 1978, as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, he has been nominated 30 times for the Hugo award for Best Professional Editor. He is a member of the Board of Advisers for the National Space Society and
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 05:58
 This July marks the hundredth anniversary of Robert Anson Heinlein's birth, an event commemorated by The Heinlein Centennial, Inc., an independent group of Heinlein admirers, at the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial in Kansas City, Missouri. If all goes according to plan, a separate group, The Heinlein Society, plans to publish The Heinlein Centennial Reader later this year. (The winners of The Heinlein Centennial's story contest may be found at their website. The Heinlein Society has announced their short story contest, and they promise details will be available soon.)
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Monday, 23 July 2007 11:57
Several years ago, I was proud to have seen enough of the films nominated for the Academy Awards to make an intelligent commentary on the merits of each. That has never happened again. And this year, as I perused the list of Hugo nominees, I sighed deeply and bemoaned the fact that there are so many things to read, and so little time. Tangent has reviewed all of the short fiction nominees, and no negative reflection on any of the works omitted from this discussion are intended.
Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:00
 It is all too easy for science fiction readers to forget that after all these years, despite all the blockbusters and bestsellers, despite the genre's shaping impact on every facet of our larger culture, the object of their affection has never really gone mainstream. A modest corrective to the delusion that it has is reading David Langford's "Ansible Link" round-up of news items, a regular feature of Interzone which under the heading "As Others See Us" includes bits about the nonsense that people who should know better say about the genre. One of the choicer comments on which Mr. Langford reports in the July 2007 issue is from Christopher Hitchens, who, in his review of The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader for the May Atlantic Monthly, observes that "The great drawback of sci-fi is the dearth of sex from which it compels itself to suffer."
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 07:20
 A critic, editor, and writer of astonishing range, Michael Moorcock is prolific, idiosyncratic, and outspoken—often too outspoken for many tastes, which has for nearly a half century had him fighting the censors. As he relates in his guest editorial in the July 2007 Interzone, he was arrested by Special Branch in the 1950s for bringing copies of William Burroughs' novels into Britain. A decade later, his magazine New Worlds raised a furor in the House of Commons by publishing Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron. (You can find Moorcock's own thoughts about the affair at The Edge.)
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 07:11
 "March of the Whiteshirts" by Michael Moorcock "Staring Down the Witches" by Andrew Hedgecock "Lovers" by Michael Moorcock "London, My Life! Or The Sedentary Jew" by Michael Moorcock "The Affair of the Bassin Les Hivers" by Michael Moorcock
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Monday, 09 July 2007 13:54
 James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 03:30
"Vectoring" by Geoffrey A. Landis
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