The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1060
| News | This is the last regular issue of the astronomical season: northern summer or southern winter, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in our Third Quarterly Review. Regular publication is scheduled to resume with issue 1061 on September 23, 2024. |
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| Novel | Max engages an informant. His visit to Vi is forestalled by a suspicious character. The defense attorney Manny Rosen brings some bad news, and Max discovers he’s being followed. Gary Inbinder, Chicago Max |
| Short Stories |
In a Ligurian village shortly after the turn of the century, Attilio Perrone is an elderly widower who has also lost his only son. Attilio honors his family by adhering firmly to “the old ways.” A relative and her friend show him there’s more than one way to achieve his goal.
Rozanne Charbonneau, The Blooms of Wisteria, part 1; conclusion
New contributor Logan Gaines introduce a pair of rock musicians who rediscover an old performance star. From Fame to Shamrock, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
Would Jane Austen always be a writer in every alternate universe?
David Barber, Crime and Prejudice After androids have restored Earth to its pristine beauty, might at least one of them like to see what human beings are up to, out in space? Charles C. Cole, Captain Carston Borrows an Android |
| Poetry | Bill Bowler, Retirement Time |
| Short Poetry |
Shauna Checkley, Back When We Were Stardust |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Logan Gaines. |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Janus Effect Channie Greenberg, Mental Floss Ron Sanders, Sepulchre for Two 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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