Christopher L. Bennett

There's a startling amount of eating and talking about food in "The Man Trap." I've long wondered if that was some kind of ironic parallel with the crew becoming food for the Salt Vampire.

The anthem will be "The Rainbow Connection."

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Yes. It's the equivalent of asking a marathon runner "Wouldn't it be easier to take a cab?"

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“Aleyara’s Flight” takes off!

Analog Science Fiction and Fact has just posted the cover to their November/December 2025 issue on their website, and here it is (sorry, it's not very large): I don't know who the cover artist is yet, but it's another striking image, and I'm amazed and honored to get…

In ULTRAMAN ACE (1972), the title giant initially had two human hosts, a man and woman, who had to touch their rings together to mutually transform into Ace. But then they wrote out the female host and just had the guy wear both rings. (She turned out to be a Moon princess and had to return home.)

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I didn't create the Ceres class. I borrowed it from the Journal of Applied Treknology site:
www.treknology.org/history1a.htm

There's a lesson in those signs. Don't ask why others choose their paths, just respect their right of way.

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Yeah, no love for French toast?

This bugs me, since I used the term "medbed" in my 2012 science fiction novel ONLY SUPERHUMAN and other stories in that universe (since I didn't want to reuse Larry Niven's "autodoc"), and now I'm afraid the term will end up with connotations I don't want.

Maybe they just don't like the other 9,999 lakes.

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The title story's sequel, "Aleyara's Flight," is featured in the November/December 2025 ANALOG from @analogsf.bsky.social, due out soon!

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One more update: “Aleyara’s Flight” general notes added

With the release of "Aleyara's Flight" in the November/December 2025 Analog drawing near, I decided to post my general, non-spoiler discussion notes on my Original Short Fiction page, which I've also taken the opportunity to streamline now…

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Interesting -- finally a working-class Robin Hood, instead of the dispossessed-nobleman version that's become standard. Even the 1991 Patrick Bergin/Uma Thurman movie (which also revolved around the Saxon/Norman conflict) made Robin a Saxon earl.

Honestly, that "as himself" joke kind of bugs me, because I think Grogu's puppeteers and his voice artist David Acord deserve as much credit as Pascal, who mostly plays Din as a voiceover role over Brendan Wayne & Lateef Crowder's suit performances.

SPIDER-MAN: DROWNED IN THUNDER annotations updated

More overdue site maintenance: I've finally updated my Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder Annotations page to reflect the page numbering in the Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours omnibus, the only version currently in print. I've also updated a few of the…

I thought you said "Blucher," which would explain why the horse is rearing.

After John Meredyth Lucas, perhaps?

And I got to give a lot of them names in EX MACHINA, and featured several of them as speaking characters.