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Years ago ... in 1974, to be precise, I created this fake Analog cover. I used to do more colour then, but soon learned that colour didn't reproduce well in black and white fanzines. The occasion was the publication of a friend's first published science fiction story. Of course, it didn't get published on the cover -- in fact, the actual cover of that issue wasn't even a "Freas" I don't think. But I copied the Freas signature anyway. Also unknown to me at the time was that Bob would wish to be credited to Robert Charles Wilson, not merely Bob Wilson. I made two facsimile covers, using actual issues of the February 1975 issue in which the story was published -- I kept one and gave the other to Bob. The issues were complete other than the substitution of the covers. Somehow, I never scanned the artwork until know. It came to light as a result of correcting a minor detail in an article that will eventually appear in a Brittish fanzine called Banana Wings.
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Some did, but most SF writers knew nothing more about science than their high school classes ... but they were usually fascinated by cutting edge science, mostly space, and wrote about the effect that science had on society, and in change, not so much science itself. All the same, a high percentage of SF writers did have jobs in scientific fields, or taught science in school. But it was never more than a high percentage.
I have to agree about it being a small percentage, but you did have Authors like Asimov, Arthor C Clark, Larry Niven and more. There was, as you know, a division between regular 'Sci Fi' and hard science fiction, the later being more technical. Analog leaned toward the later, although not exclusively. I first read a segment of 'Dragonriders of Pern' in Analog, and became an Anne McCaffrey fan. But now days I look at all the obvious mistakes in books and movies, and it makes me a little nostalgic...
Sometimes the science in science fiction can be ridiculous -- Philip K. Dick was never known for writing about physics -- but Hollywood is who new dimension of the absurd and illogical. There is scarcely a science fiction movie made that isn't laughable -- even those in high regard for their "accuracy," such as "Gravity" and even "The Martian." Among those films that come close to perfect are virtually only "2001," and "Apollo 13" ... except "Apollo 13" wasn't fiction.
Ah Analog, my father had a subscription and through out most of the 60's and 70's I'd check the mail and steal it so I could read it before him. It pissed him off no end.
Feb, 75 would have been an issue I missed. I was a couple of months out of boot camp and at my first duty station in San Diego.
Thanks for the memory.
Feb, 75 would have been an issue I missed. I was a couple of months out of boot camp and at my first duty station in San Diego.
Thanks for the memory.
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