What’s in Issue 112

Bewildering Stories News: the frontière invisible

Novels	As winter sets in, Dar, Nim, Nunez and Zik pick their way across the lake on a land bridge and head for a mountain range. They are met by a pleasant old woman named Lilit. She’s a good guide and curiously impervious to cold, but she doesn’t answer all their questions: Tala Bar, Gaia, chapter 7, “The Range”: part II ; part III.
Novellas	“The Bridge” threatens to conclude either in defeat or with a standoff, but the main character unexpectedly intervenes to buy time. How will it all really end? euhal allen, The Bridge, part VI, installment 2 ; conclusion. The history of the Kestron lenses becomes ever more sinister, and struggling newspaperman Harry Stafford doesn’t know what we know. But does he need to? Anyway, the power of second sight seems irresistible..: Jonathan M. Sweet, The Kestron Lenses, part 2.
Serials	Ásgrímur Hartmannsson brings the adventures of Lada Samara to a... conclusion? Any more adventures and she’ll have to trade in her hot wheels for a dump truck: Weekender, conclusion. Moonshadow captain Martin Horvath and his friend Eric discuss a threat sent by the pirates, and Martin figures that Morgul, the Elf, is not telling all he knows: Michael J A Tyzuk, Through a Glass, Darkly, part 4. Fencing is an Olympic sport, but how about a duel between the gods themselves, even if they aren’t Olympians? Rules: none. Referees: none. Weapons: bring your own. Stakes: all or nothing. Byron Bailey, An Impasse of Arms, part 1.
Short Stories	New contributor Paul Cronin stages fast action in a setting poles apart from the supernatural. Take a daytime stroll on a city street, where Mother Nature gives a whole new dimension to gang warfare: Hector’s Walk. New contributor Adriana Alarco de Zadra shows us a husband and wife faced with a dilemma: youth regained at the price of memory — and sunlight — lost. Is the exchange an empty bargain when the rejuvenated can’t even remember their own names? Perhaps so, and yet something else may make it all worthwhile: The Blue Balloons, part 1 ; conclusion.
Poetry	New contributor Fermín Moreno González’ poem is about religion. Or is it, necessarily? After all, some religions have no god or gods; does any have no place for man? The Hermit.
Essay	Steven Utley’s essay complements the theme of combat in this issue: the writer duels with the muse in dreams where the weapons are film and paint: Welles and Borges: Two Dreams.

Departments

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes Paul Cronin, Fermín Moreno González, and Adriana Alarco de Zadra.
Challenge	For Challenge 112, get out your analytical toolkit, we’re going to be Poetry Mechanics.
The Reading Room	Jerry Wright reviews Jim Grimsley’s The Ordinary ; also several short reviews.
Editorial	Jerry Wright, Angels in the Outback

In Times to Come

We’ve had a gratifying number of new contributors in the past few issues. They and the serials have accounted for most of our fiction. Looking ahead to issue 113, some of the authors we have scheduled are: Karlos and Katherine Allen, Lou Antonelli, Byron Bailey, Eric S. Brown... and others. The News bulletin discusses possible causes and some implications of Bewildering Stories’ continued growth.

Meanwhile, “in times present,” the Anthologies page has been updated, and our Links page seems to be in a healthy expansion phase!

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