Yee-ha! W00t! Excelsior!
<p>I got email from Dr. Stanley Schmidt, the editor of <cite>Analog</cite>,<br />
about an hour ago.  The bad news was, he turned down the short story.  The<br />
good news was he accepted the fact article.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to be published in <cite>Analog</cite>!</p>
<p><em><em>/me does geeky victory dance</em></em></p>
<p>OK, so this is one of those things where if you don&#8217;t immediately<br />
get why it&#8217;s wicked cool, no amount of explanation is likely to<br />
enlighten you.  I&#8217;ll just say I&#8217;ve been a science-fiction fan<br />
for 35 years and <cite>Analog</cite> has always been the banner-bearer<br />
for my kind of SF, the stuff with the rivets in it.  I&#8217;ve wanted to<br />
get published there when I grew up ever since I was 11 years old;<br />
this is literally a childhood dream come true.</p>
<p>Oh.  And Dr. Schmidt asked me to send him more fiction&#8230;</p>
