What’s in Issue 170

Novel	Sha’ul, once a judge and now a king, is beset by unbearable tensions: Ahino’am vs. Re’uma, Ashtoret vs. Yhwh, and the sacrifices, which are the worst of all... Tala Bar, The King’s Daughter Chapter 3: Ahino’am, part 1; part 2; part 3.
Serials	The witch’s curse, politics, and gun-running offworlders are deadly triple threat to Princess Rhiannon: Rachel Parsons, An Understandable Mistake, part 3; conclusion. Can a vampire have a conscience? She may need one just to stay sane: Robert L. Sellers, Jr., Hunter’s Story, part 1.
Short Stories	Even in the bleakest solitary confinement a prisoner may give a cruelly ironic twist to the term “criminal justice system”: Robert M. Blevins, Cruel and Unusual. Don’t be too nosy about where your neighbors are headed for their vacation; it may be the last place you’d ever want to go: James Finn, The Greers’ Holiday, part 1; conclusion. A botched teleportation experiment is enough to make a commuter see red: Jeffrey J. Lyons, Transmitting Through. Whence comes the authority for a reordination when no one remains for the laying on of hands? Mary B. McArdle, Sacrament.
Flash Fiction	New contributor Jeff Haas takes the culture of illiteracy to its fatal conclusion: The Last Book.
Poetry	What is the significance of the title? Thomas D. Reynolds, Sparrow Egg.
Art Gallery	New contributor Christine Cartwright begins a series of digital art works with Local Diner.
Essay	Tala Bar casts considerable light on the premise of her novel The King’s Daughter with The Fight for Love and Glory in Myth and Literature.

Departments

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes Christine Cartwright and Jeff Haas.
Challenge	Challenge 170 senses danger and exhorts you to Gird Your Loins.
Discussion	The Evolution of Popular Literature: Kevin Ahearn; Ian Donnell Arbuckle; Don Webb
Letters	Flemming Leicht Madsen writes about Sean Hower’s “Tribal Huntress”.
The Reading Room	Jerry Wright reviews Marcus Sedgwick’s The Dark Flight Down. José Joaquín Ramos announces Alfa Eridiani 19. Susie Hawes announces Drabbler 4: Aliens and Forbidden Love.
Editorial	Jerry Wright, Time Pressure

In Times to Come

News briefs : Bewildering Stories is completing a move to a new, more dependable server. Your bookmarks will still work. Issues 16-99 are now back in place.

Our heartfelt thanks to Christine Cartwright for designing not just one but a whole new set of logos for us. In the coming weeks we’ll show you them all and, hopefully, program our headers to include some of them at random. But first we want you to see her regular digital art work.

In issue 171

Novels: Tala Bar, The King’s Daughter, chapter 4 “Shemu’el”;
chapter 5 “The Three Asses”; Roberto Sanhueza, Katts and Dawgs, “Choices” parts 1-2
Novella : Jeff Brown, “The Diner and That Old Feeling Again”
Short Stories: New contributor Leighton Connor, “The Rosamund Trap”; New contributor Jennifer Hoffman, “Using My Head”; Rachel Parsons, “The Most Exasperating Woman on the Planet”
Flash Fiction : Katherine Allen, “The Mating Game”
Poetry : New contributor Darby Mitchell, “Llama Sighted”
Art Gallery : Christine Cartwright, “Down Under”
Essay : The Moamrath Project, “Moamrath and the Media”
Review : Danielle L. Parker, Lois M. Bujold’s The Hallowed Hunt

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