Mack Reynolds’ Computer War opens with the anxiety that machines might not just assist conflict, but administer it.

This June 1967 issue of Analog lands squarely in the era when computers were room-sized, war was cold but constant, and science fiction was less about sleek dystopia and more about systems. The cover alone does half the work: brute machinery, human fragility, heat everywhere.

Alongside the fiction: essays, departments, hard science speculation. The magazine’s particular hybrid — narrative plus “science fact” — feels almost prophetic now. 

For readers interested in mid-century speculative thought, Cold War technocracy, early computer paranoia, and the ecosystem that shaped writers before cyberpunk existed.

Worn in the right way. A document of when the digital future still smelled like oil and paper.