Analog Science Fiction and Fact 1997-01

The Wait
Scientific and technological advances offer lots of new choices—of which one of the most import...
Last of the Soft Things
This story is entirely fictitious, and any resemblance to real cultures or events is purely…...
Holiday Spirits
When your circumstances change, so do your ambitions—sometimes drastically!
The Life-Blood of the Land
As Kelvin Throop once observed, a lot of humanity’s troubles are caused by fluids going where t...