Analog Science Fiction & Fact Print Magazine

I love the content in Analog but the Kindle version is a disaster. Basically it is photos taken of the two open facing pages. I can't zoom it enough to make for easy reading and and it jumps back continually. Do yourself a favor a buy the print version.

I have been a subscriber to ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION for more than 60 years ... and EVERY MONTH the quality of the stories is un-matched, and stunning. Makes your best SCIFI movies seem childish and formulaic. For the past five years I have been getting ANALOG on my Laptop Computer with either NOOK FOR PC, or Amazon's KINDLE FOR PC, and going into the file structure, and saving them in another folder to archive them. RECENTLY both Amazon and Barnes and Noble stopped making them available to my PC, and now I had to resurrect an old Android Galaxy Reader to get the latest version ... which I CAN ONLY "RENT" the magazines ... I cannot own them ... anymore.There is no currently known way I can extract them from the NOOK or KINDLE to get into my permanent possession the MAGAZINES I PAID FOR.With paper copies of the magazine I can go back and re-read stories from 1974, if I want to. They are MINE. I paid for them... I have them ... and I can access them any time I want, not dependent on the vagaries of corporate policy changes that decide that I can NOW only rent the right to read what I have paid for. If I do not have access to WIFI, I cannot even read them. If technology changes, or corporate management becomes any more clueless, what then?I LIKE owning my magazines .... AND I like being able to read then on a 17" wide monitor, instead of a 3" wide monitor.I am 72 years old ant that is REALLY important. Most of the people who subscribe to ANALOG, my guess is, have been subscribers for at least 35 years, and in my case more than 60 years ... and I am mad as hell about a PERFECT system being totally screwed up.ACCORDINGLY ... I have subscribed to a paper copy of ANALOG, to be delivered to my home ... and having learned a very important lesson I could have done without, am switching back to paper copies of the magazines and books I want, directly from the publisher, until such time as I find out either how to transfer a magazine into an off-line folder, or they once again make them available so I can read them on my laptops wide screen, AND continue to extract the electronic version from the providers software, to a non-volatile folder on my laptop.I highly recommend the magazine in PAPER format, for the same reason that owning you own home is far superior than renting an apartment, subject to the vagaries and arbitrary decisions of a landlord.I wasted my money THIS year on an electronic version of ANALOG ..... but like food and water being addictive in a GOOD way, look forward to the U.S. Postal Service to deliver me paper copies that I can actually OWN."Renting" magazines is a crappy solution, for those who still pay for quality products and services.

I used to read these long ago and was happy to find it again. I’m old and eyesight isn’t great anymore so I use larger text on my iphone and kindle fire to compensate and normally don’t have a problem but for some reason the kindle app on both devices doesn’t increase the text size and it’s a pain to constantly zoom in to read it. Bummer.

I've been reading Analog for many years and as a Kindle subscription for the last 2-3 years. The content is of the quality it has always been but typos and errors (missing words, missing breaks between words, stuff like that) are frequent in the electronic edition. Analog is the premier SF magazine for hard SF. Unfortunately, some stories drift away from hard SF, I just don't read them.

The stories in Analog are consistently great. When I subscribed more than five years ago I cancelled after a few months because the Kindle version was inexplicable littered with distracting typos.Now, in early 2023, I decided to give it another try as I assumed that the typo issue would have been resolved.Nope.There are still typos everywhere and they are highly distracting. Most of the typos consist of random spaces showing up in the middle of words. For example, the March 2023 issue has dozens of them, such as:"After checking my wrist readout, I unzipped my uninf lated inf latable emergency spacesuit.""The elder O'Leary was a former firef ighter who's bought a neighborhood bar in the Bronx."My best guess is that some poor intern is scanning the physical version of the magazine and running it through a low-quality OCR program. Whatever the cause, I guess I will try again in a few years.

Now in its 90th year this magazine features science fiction short stories, novellas and novelettes, all by great authors. The stories tend to be of the "hard" science fiction type but not exclusively. Each issue features a science fact article written by scientists geared for the general public - all genres of science and all of current interest. I've been a subscriber now for almost six decades and its quality has never faltered.

Analog's history extends far back into the golden age of science fiction. The stories tend to be of the "hard" science fiction variety and are of the same quality that the magazine upheld back in the day.I don't have as much time to read as I used to, but I love having Analog on my Kindles, because, when I have the opportunity for some reading, and I'm looking for a short story or novella, Analog has them. In fact, sometimes there is TOO much choice.But, yeah. If you're a fan of real science fiction, Analog is the first place to look.

I have been reading this magazine since 1960 (and have read all the issues back to the mid 1940s) Of course over most of that time I was reading hardcopy:) It was rare that I regretted the time that I had spent reading a story and routinely read every issue cover to cover.Up until ten years ago I would certainly have given every issue 5 stars. So what has changed?The first thing I have noticed the increasing frequency 'stories' that are not actually stories but episodes. I find myself too often reflecting at the end that there was insufficient pleasure in reading to justify the time I had spent doing so. The frequency with which this happens seems to be increasing. Perhaps it is that I do not enjoy the presnt style of writing. However I think it is more that many writers lack the motivation to polish their work. Perhaps there are insufficient submissions to push these 'episodic' stories down into the slush pile where they belong.My second problem (and perhaps the more important one) is that the copy editting is close to non existent. We get sentences with missing words, sentences that are grammatically incorrect, and words that are correctly spelt but not the word that was intended (the curse of spell checkers)What finally drove me to writing this review was a story in the March 2019 issue where one of the protagonists is named Leah. No problem with that but every word that contained 'lea' in it (such as please, leave etc.) had #leah' instead. It looks as if the author had originally called the protagonist 'Lea' and had then made a very inept search and replace. It is easy to search specifically for the intended name as a) it will start with an upper case L preceded by a white space character and be immeditately followed by white space or a punctuation mark.Whar has happened to the editor's pride in presenting well written prose? Yes, in any publication there will be errors, but every error jars the reader and lessens their enjoyment.I think all the editors of the 20th century issues would have been ashamed to let through the text I am all too frquently finding.I wonder if these problems are purely a feature of the electronic copies. Some definitely are (I hope) where paragraphs get repeated and words get split by whitespace. That later is disconcerting when the split results in two valid words. Any such split jars any mature reader who reads by the shape of words as it breaks the flow of reading whilst we re assemble the letters in to the in tended word.

If you like your SF with a distinct "plausible science" based flavour with more emphasis on plot, characters and story (rather than leaping from action scene to action scene via dubious unlikley tech devices) then this is the periodical for you. Several short stories are usually combined with a couple of longer peices that you can get your teeth into. There are also always science fact based articles (some of which can easily leave me equally enlightend or baffled) and other more mundane items like reviews of latest book releases and SF events listings. I have been a subscriber for several years now, and the quality of the content only rarely slips from the usual high standard, and is often superb. I have discovered many excellent new (to me) authors through the magazine. My only crticism is that at times, the editorial team seem to get 'latched on' to a particular author they like and we sometimes see a bit to much of them over a few issues. Highly recommended.

Before I complain about Amazon's charges for Analog, let me say I'm going to continue to get this by subscription here because the alternative is just too messy.Since Analog went Bi-monthly (6x£2.95) the subscription is more than the cost of the individual copies. I don't subscribe to other SF magazines but I note that other Bi-monthlys have the same issue. I had a 'chat' but there is no means of getting feedback from anybody higher up.

I have to cancel this subscription because it is available on the kindle only as tiny tiny text that is unreadable for anyone who doesn't have 20/20 vision (which is me).I am extremely annoyed that the published couldn't even be bothered to create a proper kindle version. It's like they've scanned the paper magazine and uploaded the image. I do not recommend unless you have the eyes of a hawk and patience of a saint

The only problem I have with this is that I can't get hold of back-numbers. I missed an edition due to a mistake with cards, and I've missed the first part of a series.