The points of view circle and converge: a morose Chinese time traveler in a bar, consumed with guilt for the lives destroyed from a history-changing time-travel mistake he must now locate and fix an immortal woman who is recognized by said time traveler from a millenni ums -old encounter in the Byzantine era an alien-American tracking a potential Earth invader a five-legged spider-alien said spider-alien, lost in Earth space and seeing a desperate hope to repair his broken ship with parts from the Chinese man’s time machine an android who desires to see if the immortal is another android a woman who can read minds.Īll of these points of view are drawn together to a warehouse, the next spot along the path of the spider-alien’s raids for parts. “ Nexus,” by Michael Flynn, weaves a complex web of cause and effect in which time is an integral element. The rest of the issue has a nice balance of stories involving artificial intelligence, other-planetary conundrums, and more light-hearted fare. A full half of them are about time travel in various permutations-its potential use for tourism, for changing history, for personal benefit. This is the second issue of Analog since it switched to a bi-monthly publication, and the magazine has taken the opportunity of increased issue space to put a bunch of time travel stories all together.
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