When I was a young man living in Paris, I found myself walking down the street next to an attractive woman. When she asked me for a light, I recognized her: Juliette Binoche! Her film BLEU had just come out, and she was in the early days of becoming one of the most famous actresses …

My new short story, “The Starworthy Slip,” appears in the Nov/Dec 2025 issue of Analog, currently on newstands everywhere! You can also order the issue (Nos. 11 and 12) online at https://analogsf.com/. It’s a sexy, fun heist story set on an asteroid city in orbit around Jupiter’s moon Europa, where blue collar spacedock workers service …