The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 618
| Novel |
Nacroanus plans to hoodwink the world. Belthaeous chats with Rodney. John W. Steele, The Chronicle of Belthaeous |
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| Short Stories |
A scientist returns to the scene of a fantastic coincidence — or a miracle:
O. D. Hegre, Beyond the Legend of the Mission Nun. Sometimes one has — or is — a special flavour of ice cream: Morris Marshall, Rocky Road. After a great war, a young boy finds heroes on the home front: James Shaffer, Standing Liberty. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Chad McClendon depicts an accretion of legend in campfire tales: Just One More. |
| Poetry | When cattle raising has become entirely mechanized, two displaced workers rap about the only choices left to them — in the arts or outer space: Bertrand Cayzac, First Martian Eclogue. |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor James R. Rudolph, Time Runs Out |
| Memoir | A young psychologist discovers that, in a mental institution, “there is no story so truly Bewildering as reality”: Henry F. Tonn, A Prison Psychologist, part 1; conclusion. |
Departments
| Guest Editorial |
PEN, Charlie and the Writers’ World |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Chad McClendon and James R. Rudolph. |
| Letters | Dan Young has researched a question: What the H...?! |
| The Reading Room |
Eleanor Lerman, Radiomen excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Daniel Ayles, Buddhist Temple 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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