The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 570
| Novel |
Stella undertakes a long search for Earl. Meanwhile, Elroy is proving to be too much of a bother for his captors in Omaha. Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool
Chapter 46: Crazy as a Woodpecker
Chapter 47: Vinegar and Sugar Chapter 48: An Affectation Mocking Victory |
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| Novella |
In the future, when Stonehenge has been reconstructed, it channels nourishment to the Taurids from a global catastrophe. The ethereal space aliens bid Earth a fond farewell and promise — or threaten — to return someday. J. J. Roth, Legacy of the Fallen Stars
Chapter 5: The Taurids — 3000 CE, conclusion
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| Short Stories |
A lady’s car becomes a tree to Heaven — or thereabouts — for a lonely tollboth keeper: Kallirroe Agelopoulou, When Cars Grew Taller, part 1; conclusion. Planetologist and sometime detective Uriel Qeta must solve a beautiful journalist’s cryptogam identifying an interstellar spy: Antonio Bellomi, Port of Call: Mariner Point, part 1; conclusion — Scalo a Mariner Point. New contributor Kelly Zientek-Baker introduces detective Caleb Monti, who must resist the goddess guarding the Fountain of Youth in order to return to his beloved wife: The Thirteenth Door, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Gus and Handsome negotiate the release of a foreign duke from a king’s prison, on the queen’s behalf: Charles C. Cole, The Dungeon Keeper’s Mission. |
| Poetry |
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, Did I Love Too Much? New contributor P. K. Vijayan, The Bastards |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes P. K. Vijayan and Kelly Zientek-Baker. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 570 wonders: Drive-Through or Drive-By? |
| 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
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