unicorns and freedom

I dreamt Mick was trying to go somewhere in the present day and everyone was all suspicious, especially about the bolt cutters so he had to leave those behind
so they/we followed him to an out of the way mansion
that looked abandoned
except for this one weird glow that came out of a hole in the ground
and when we got close enough to that, we found him
trying to free
a chained up unicorn
with a horn glowing like a lightsaber.

I know Legends did unicorns and getting rusty chains off that one seems like a Mistake
but this one seemed nice?
And far from the only magical creature confined down there.

There were Aeslin Mice.

So this... basement? Cliff edge basement? I want to say grotto. It had stairs leading in from outside so you needn't go in the house to get in. And it was dusty and gave an impression of being overgrown, like you wouldn't want to look too hard in the shadows maybe.

But Mick had gone back after an Adventure - probably a long time after on the calendar - because he'd figured out where it was and how to get in and you couldn't just leave everything trapped like that.

Only technically it is still breaking and entering, because on paper someone still owns the place even after the mansion's magic is broken and the owners vanquished.

So while the police man was going back to the car for bolt cutters (and probably trying to talk himself into having seen a horse)

I asked Mick, exactly how rich was he getting from his books?

And he grinned, and sent some messages
and by the time the police got back
this had been Rebecca Silver's mansion all along.

Analog, the last three issues

These are the last three of my subscription, read one after the other, so that's six months of story.
Reckon I'll only comment on the ones I can remember...

September/October 2018
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November/December 2018
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January/February 2019
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There were more that were okay to read, but, the hit to miss ratio is not in their favour.


So I guess that's the last issue of Analog I'll read, at least for a long while.

Which feels weird.



But whatever it is I'm looking for from science fiction, new ideas, new solutions, new ways of looking at the world, I don't feel I'm getting them here.



So, off to other magazines for the forseeable.