The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 423
Quarter’s End: This is the last regular issue of the first quarter of 2011. Next week we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 413-423 in our First Quarterly Review. We’ll resume regular publication with issue 424 on March 28.
| Novel | Jonas revists the Bureau of Personal Information Protection and then goes to spy on the receptionist and her family. He compares the esthetics of art and that of industrial debris: Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Error, chapter 11. |
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| Serial | Grimble must come clean to Mrs. Glorn. And without the dead weight of the alien interface, he must hone new skills for battles to come: Harry Lang, The University of Dreams and Knowledge, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
What if an old evil could have been prevented? The future might have looked a lot brighter: Lou Antonelli, Black Hats and Blackberrys. The trouble with exploring alien planets is that preconceived notions may keep you from knowing what you discover: Albert J. Manachino, Morning Encounter, part 1; conclusion. The designer deities don’t make designs, they reveal them: Cheryl W. Ruggiero, Designer Deities. Some tests are easier than they look, some are harder: Thomas Lee Joseph Smith, The Exam. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Nick Lewandowski introduces two electronic beings who seem to need each other: I Eat the Body Electric. |
| Poetry |
New contributor Philip M. Bennett, Silence or Laughter Michael Lee Johnson, Kansas |
| Short Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Armchair Observatory, NASA December 6, 2010 |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Nick Lewandowski. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 417 Response: Donna Hole, “Left Behind” and “Naming Characters” Challenge 423 beholds A Bowl of Living Water. |
| The Reading Room |
Henry F. Tonn reviews Spinetingler magazine. |
| The Art Gallery |
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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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