The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 433
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Jonas leads two pursuers on a high-speed chase to a catastrophic conclusion: Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Error, chapter 21 Donas finds refuge and a warm welcome among the people of a community to the south of hers. But Donas has grown up amid suspicion and secrecy in Katera’s society, and old habits are hard to break: Mary B. McArdle, Give Them Wine A Disparity of Language, chapter 7
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| Novella |
Keyshaa and Dominic dynamite Miterall’s compound: Sean Monaghan, Pan Am 617 Heavy
Chapter 3: Particle Magnetron, part 2
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Maria Kontak introduces Lauren, who learns from a beautician, Velma, to do the work she loves: Painting Faces, part 1; part 2; part 3; conclusion. An interstellar arms dealer has to choose his clients carefully, and first impressions may be mistaken: Paul Lang, Not Like an Angel, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Louis B. Shalako has Brad dump some deadly toxic waste for Phil. The pollution can be stopped, but not its source: The Hydra. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Thomas Kearnes shows a lonely woman whose only consolation is in being married to Science Fiction. |
| Poetry | Channie Greenberg, Pit Bulls Plus Pigeons |
| Essay | Bertil Falk maintains that Best Is in the Eyes of the Reader. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Thomas Kearnes, Maria Kontak, and Louis B. Shalako. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Don Webb asks The Best? Says Who? |
| Challenge |
Challenge 432 Response: “Song of the Nightingale” Challenge 433 asks What Is Good? |
| Cinema | Lewayne L. White reviews The Last Exorcism. |
| 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 |
Bewildering Stories News
Departments: The forum and Bewildering Press are being moved to our new server. Their links will become active again when they’re ready.
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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.”
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