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The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 1038

Novel New contributor Humphrey Price takes a young couple to Mexico, where they intend to visit the Temple of the Inscriptions.
Chapter 1: Palenque
Novella An elderly physician reflects on a very unconventional experience of his youth.
Wilhelm Raabe, Elderflowers, part 1
Short
Stories
Ships’ pilots had to adjust to new ways between the age of sail and the age of steam. So might it be in space. David Barber, The Navigator’s Gift, part 1; conclusion

After Carl spills beer on his future wife, Jocie, at a baseball game, civilization collapses, and he has to fend off midnight bomb-throwers. John Bukowski, Summer’s End

New contributor Jules has Nemiva bring Gil to meet Dozorsi after the aliens destroy their own space station in Earth orbit. After the Gods Die, part 1; conclusion
Flash
Fiction
Two humans realize that AI’s can get along together just fine; it’s their human counterparts who need help. M. D. Smith, Wired Hearts
Short
Poetry
Julie Brandon, When the Light Returns
B. K. Mox, Beseeching at Portals
Drama Jack London’s last hours might have been spent in a discussion of his literary sexual proclivities. Marina J. Neary, A Wolf by Any Other Name

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Humphrey Price and Jules.
The Reading
Room
A non-partisan tribute to Jimmy Carter for the President’s 99th birthday. Douglas Young, This Little Opinion... excerpt
The Art
Gallery
John Eric Ellison, Secret Treaties and Foreign Influence

A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art
NASA: Picture of the Day
Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance

Randomly selected Bewildering motto:

Randomly selected classic rejection notice:

Bewildering Stories’ official mottoes:

“Poems are not made with ideas; they are made with words.” — Stéphane Mallarmé
Ars longa, vita brevis. Rough translation: “Proofreading never ends.”

To Bewildering Stories’ schedule: In Times to Come

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