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I can think of a couple of reasons the author of this article might say "Giambattista Basile ... was certainly not writing for children." One is that Basile's use of language is ju…

Thanks for posting this--a few weeks ago, I also read Robert Loerzel's article "The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It" in Chicago Magazine and found it rive…

I'm glad to see this on HN. Francis Godwin's story is worth a read for anyone interested in the history of science fiction. The part about using geese to fly to the moon is fun, bu…

I can't help with Analog, but we're in a golden age of free SF online. My vague feeling is Clarkesworld[0] may be most similar to Analog's editorial POV, and RocketStackRank[1] pro…

My favorite story from this site is a fantasy advice column--Sophie Wereley's "Unconventional Advice for the Discerning Reader": https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/modern-fant…

I agree, and I'd also recommend Vajra Chandrasekera's story that responds to it and reframes it in postcolonial terms: "The Negation of the Negation of the Negation" ( http://www.b…

In the 'travel essay' genre, Xavier de Maistre's "A Journey Round My Room" https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-journey-round-m...