Analog Science Fiction and Fact - Jun 1 2012

The latest issue of Analog was good, but I'd say it was weaker than the average.

Food Chained - Carl Frederick - A clever story about space travel and alien food chains and intelligence.

Crooks - Paul Carlson - a nice story about robots and trucks.

A Murmuration of Starlings - Joe Pitkin - Quite good. I can't tell the real theme of the story without it being a spoiler, though...

Titanium Soul - Catherine Shaffer - very good short story about conscience - artificial or otherwise.

An Ounce of Prevention - Jerry Oltion - didn't particularly like this one.

Fine Print - Michael Alexander - nice short story (again, theme is too much of a spoiler)

Darwin's Gambit - Emily Mah - this was nice, and the end did have a proper setup during the story. However, it was so much into the cute cliche of children being smarter than adults that I was annoyed by it...

A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy - N.M. Cedeño - very nice story about a world without privacy and a murder investigation. Unfortunately, the world depicted seems way too real...

Is the Moon a Babel Fish? - John Gribbin - Nice fact article about the formation of the Moon.

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