The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 628
| Novel |
On far Europa, Jenny Appleseed holds a conference to plan interstellar expeditions. Bertrand Cayzac, Floozman in Space |
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| Novella | Johnnie’s father comes home, but life remains hard for the family. Johnnie doesn’t go to school, but he succeeds anyway; his mother is a natural-born teacher: James Shaffer, Back to the World, part 3; part 4; part 5. |
| Short Stories |
One can learn a lot just sitting around in a police station, waiting for the next call for the Bomb Squad:
Gary Clifton, Officer Rosie. Could robots do the work on a sheep farm in South Australia? Maybe, but there’s always the human factor, and it can be quite unexpected: Lilliana Rose iFarmer, part 1; conclusion. Little Natalie acquired dissociative personality disorder at a young age. Her personalities are very colorful, and they have talents ranging from saintly to practical to... dangerous: Henry F. Tonn, Death by Moonlight, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Kent Rosenberger celebrates New Horizons’ mission with a cautionary tale about cultural differences and minding one’s manners in the universe: Plan One From Planet Nine. |
| Poetry | Stephen Ellams, Costanza |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Snow Melt |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Kent Rosenberger. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 628 calls All Minds on Deck. |
| Letters | Donald Schneider discusses Asimov’s Anomaly. |
| The Reading Room |
Danielle L. Parker reviews Lois M. Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Laughing Lion 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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