Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 124, Issue 9, September 2004

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, September 2004 Jerry Oltion and Amy Axt Hanson. "Trophies and Treasures". On a race over Mars' dusty plains in which Winthrop Magnus Wellington III, known to his friends as 'Welly', and his manservant, Bentley, a top notch cove, try to keep the family fortunes and the honour of the family name against the underhand tactics of their opponents. Joe Schembrie. "The First Martian". A short short with a simple conceit : the person chosen to be the first to Mars is chosen on account of his accident-proneness. Why? It makes better television. Rajna Vajra. "Viewschool". A teacher is working with remote teenagers - doubly remote, for they are (for a variety of reasons) not the most academic children, and they are also physically distant, and their lessons are two-way telecasts. Teacher has some success with the reluctant students, but the story moves from a fairly heavygoing amount of detail on the lessons as the students progress, to a somewhat contrived ending in which one student who has OD'd has to be rescued from a particularly unpleasant group of street teenagers. Dave Creek. "Unbound". A military misdemeanour threatens the love between two soldiers (one of each gender). Their choice : court-martial or manipulation of their brains which will result in their being unaware of the love that they have for each other. They are faced with this stark dilemma, but it is resolved, and they return to base as colleagues, not lovers. The issue concludes with Part II of the serialised novel, Mary A. Turzillo's 'An Old-Fashioned Girl'