Description
Masaki is the Korbinian Boyer’s most junior mathematician. When the Boyer picks up a strange signal during a fly-by, Masaki talks her boss into allowing her to go check it out. Determined to overcome her fears, she sets out, but is she ready to make first contact?
This is the Sept/Oct 2023 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The Deviltree, is a 12K-word, hard-sf novellete and just one of the great stories in this issue. The art page preceding the story will be signed and contain only Monalisa’s signature. No other authors have signed their work in this issue.