There are two parallel, intersecting plots. Tide is the third story in the series, and by far the best. After all, the transplant of a healthy brain requires a donor body…and it’s hard to find ones that aren’t inhabited, and don’t even the feeble minded have the right to their own corpus? The first story was mildly interesting but prolonged, and the second veered heavily into the uncomfortable zone of eugenics. FitzPatrick started a series of stories about a surgeon who has perfected the technique of human brain transplants. FitzPatrick and Leigh RichmondĪ couple of years ago, R. I’ve no idea if “Joseph Green” is the same one who writes science fiction for UK magazines.

There are no section breaks, so the whole thing runs together such that even I, a professional space historian, found my eyes glazing over. There is a lot of good information in here, but as is often the case in Analog science articles, its presentation is confusing. To do so, it uses liquid hydrogen as a fuel, which entails a whole host of problems. This powerful second stage is used atop Atlas and Titan missiles to send big payloads to Earth’s orbit and beyond. Jonesįirst off, a very long article on the teething troubles faced by the developers of the Centaur rocket. The Bugs That Live at -423°, by Joseph Green and Fuller C. For instance, who knew that Hubert Humphrey was still alive? Yet he must be kicking for he is currently in Africa on a goodwill tour of the continent.Īnd, as a fellow exclaimed when I gave him a preview of my thoughts on this month’s issue of Analog, “A five star story in Analog? Really?” There are some things you can count on in life: death, taxes, the North Vietnamese violating their own Christmas truce more than a hundred times.īut sometimes, life deals you surprises.

The Mind behind the Eye by Joseph Green