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Richard A. Lovett is an American science fiction author and science writer from Portland, Oregon. He has written numerous short stories and factual articles that have appeared in multiple literary and scientific magazines and websites, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact, National Geographic News, Nature, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, Cosmos, and Psychology Today.
Lovett is one of the most prolific and decorated writers in Analog's 80-plus-year history. His first formal appearance in the magazine other than a 1993 letter to the editor was "Tricorders, Yactograms and the Future of Analytical Chemistry: When 'Nano-' Isn't Small Enough", a science article. His first fiction appearance was the novelette "Equalization".
Lovett first won the magazine's reader's choice award, the Analytical Laboratory, in 2002 for a 2001 fact article, "Up in Smoke: How Mt. St. Helens Blasted Conventional Scientific Wisdom". Since then he has won the award a record nine times, three times for novelettes, twice for novellas, and four times for science articles. Including the 2012 awards, he has also placed in the top five 31 additional times, more than any other Analog contributor. As of the December 2012 issue, his work had appeared in the magazine 116 times, placing him second place on the magazine's all-time contributor list. In addition to writing fiction and science articles for the magazine, he has also written profiles since 2006, and a series of how-to articles about writing short stories. These special features comprise about a quarter of his total contributions to the magazine.
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