{"id":1487,"date":"2019-12-19T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2019-12-19T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:07:02","slug":"astounding-analog-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/astounding-analog-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Astounding\/Analog<\/em> at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Next year will mark the 90th anniversary of Astounding Science Fiction<\/em>, known these days as Analog<\/em>.\u00a0 To mark the occasion, editor Trevor Quachri will be reprinting one story from each decade, starting with the 1940s and going through the 1990s.\u00a0 Anything later than the nineties, Quachri says, is too recent. More time will be needed to determine what the true classics will be.\u00a0 All right, I can go along with that, no problem.<\/p>\n

There will also be no stories reprinted from the 1930s. The reasoning here is that the identity hadn’t really formed yet.\u00a0 That sounds a lot like John Campbell hadn’t yet put his imprint on the magazine.\u00a0 Considering Quachri was in full support of changing the name of the Campbell Award earlier this year, I find this an interesting position to take.\u00a0 It’s his magazine, and he’s the editor, so I’m not going to make an issue of it. There are some writers from the Clayton days in the 30s who went on to have successful careers after Street & Smith took over the magazine, such as Clifford D. Simak, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, and Campbell himself. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Since January is Vintage Science Fiction month, I’m going to do some posts here about the Clayton Astounding.\u00a0 I’m also going to review the stories Quachri (who is only the fifth editor of the magazine) and his team choose to reprint.\u00a0 Plus, I’ll look at both The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology<\/em> (edited by Campbell) and the two volume Astounding-Analog Reader (edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss), which tended to focus on longer works that weren’t reprinted as often.\u00a0 These posts will probably look at a few stories at a time and continue throughout the year.<\/p>\n

I’m also going to revive the Pre-Campbell SF Challenge I was doing last year.\u00a0 Much of that focus will be during vintage Science Fiction Month but will continue throughout the year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There have been hundreds of great stories published in Astounding\/Analog<\/em> over the decades, more than I’ve had a chance to read.\u00a0 I picked up a two CD set containing PDF’s of the entire run of Astounding<\/em> earlier this year, and my collection of Analog<\/em> is pretty complete to the mid-60’s. I may pick a few stories that aren’t very well known to look at.<\/p>\n

I’m also open to suggestions of stories to read. I am not promising I will get to any of them.\u00a0 But if there’s a favorite you’d like me to take a look at, I’ll see what I can do to fit it in. (But I make no promises in that regard.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next year will mark the 90th anniversary of Astounding Science Fiction, known these days as Analog.\u00a0 To mark the occasion, editor Trevor Quachri will be reprinting one story from each decade, starting with the 1940s and going through the 1990s.\u00a0 Anything later than the nineties, Quachri says, is too recent. More time will be needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122,232,693],"tags":[768,772,696],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analog","category-astounding-science-fiction","category-john-w-campbell","tag-analog","tag-astounding-science-fiction","tag-john-w-campbell-jr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-nZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}