The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 432

Novels	The police arrive at the Bureau of Personal Information Protection. A murderous brawl ensues. Jonas escapes but is pursued the the mysterious Land Cruiser: Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Error, chapter 20. Donas, Mak and Rani make their way southward. Their pony is injured just as they meet a young horseman: Mary B. McArdle, Give Them Wine, A Disparity of Language, chapter 6.
Novella	Keyshaa and Dominic break into Miterall’s bunker. Dominic is surprised to learn that Keyshaa knows her way around it: Sean Monaghan, Pan Am 617 Heavy, Chapter 3: Particle Magnetron, part 1.
Short Stories	How to keep alien monsters from landing on the roof? Wanda and James think that burning the house down might do the trick: Albert J. Manachino, Something Above Us. Any satire on the topic is bound to be surrealistic: Thomas Lee Joseph Smith, My Travels Through Texas Episode 1: Remembering the Alamo Episode 2: A Meeting with Rosa Parks Episode 3: Leaving San Antonio Will Philbus ever return to Martha? Probably not, but for a brief moment they know what life could have been like without war: Ron Van Sweringen, Song of the Nightingale.
Flash Fiction	A story almost like the one grandmother used to tell: Jack Phillips Lowe, The Moral.
Poetry	Rebecca Lu Kiernan, The Waiting Room Christine J. M. Reilly, God Didn’t Mean It
Short Poetry	John Stocks, No More A-Roving

Departments

Translation	Kurd Lasswitz, On the Soap Bubble — Auf der Seifenblase, tr. Noel Middleton
Challenge	Challenge 432 goes Reminiscing on the Run.
The Reading Room	Danielle L. Parker reviews David Grann, The Lost City of Z.
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art *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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