AKICIF: Query - Old Analog story?
Jan. 28th, 2008 10:12 amThis question has no purpose, it's just been bugging me all morning for some reason.
I'm looking for the title and author of a short story that appeared in what I think was the 50th anneversary issue of Astouding/Analog. I can't remember any of the characters' names either, but the basic plot was that a thinly disguised John Campbell stand-in was reading through the latest story sent in by a hot new author. Much to his surprise, it's one of his own that he'd intended to publish (written under a pseudonym). He finds and confronts the author, who is a female time traveller from what is apparently the late 80's from the tech in her basement (a VCR and home computer, but there's no mention of the Internet or DVD's). She's publishing other authors' stories under her own name, earlier than they originally appeared, along with a few of her own originals (including tragic one about helecopter warfare in Indochina), with the intent of trying to change her future in a slightly better direction.
Anyone recognize this?
I'm looking for the title and author of a short story that appeared in what I think was the 50th anneversary issue of Astouding/Analog. I can't remember any of the characters' names either, but the basic plot was that a thinly disguised John Campbell stand-in was reading through the latest story sent in by a hot new author. Much to his surprise, it's one of his own that he'd intended to publish (written under a pseudonym). He finds and confronts the author, who is a female time traveller from what is apparently the late 80's from the tech in her basement (a VCR and home computer, but there's no mention of the Internet or DVD's). She's publishing other authors' stories under her own name, earlier than they originally appeared, along with a few of her own originals (including tragic one about helecopter warfare in Indochina), with the intent of trying to change her future in a slightly better direction.
Anyone recognize this?
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Date: 2008-01-28 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-29 03:35 pm (UTC)