The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 672
| Novel |
Frank alone sees a mysterious “humanoid” figure and wants to find out what it means. J-Cap will allow him to pursue it, but not into water with sharks. At least, that it is the plan. Elous Telma, Oikos Nannion
Chapter 20: Retreat and Ponder, part 1
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| Serial | New contributor Carl Ross Beideman introduces Bix, a robot who wakens when almost all of humanity has fled to the stars after a world-destroying apocalypse: The Potential Man, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Jude Conlee takes ten steps to disintegration and one beyond it: Steps 1 to 10. New contributor Patrick Doerksen depicts a tyrant who gains the whole world but realizes its cost: The Monarch’s Madness. What if all the conspiracy theories are wrong, and it’s really frogs that are keeping the balance in the world, such as it is? Bill McCormick, Fourteen Frogs. |
| Flash Fiction |
Do you want to marry him or her or do you want to pretend to get married? Just pop the question already! Charles C. Cole, Equivocation. |
| Poetry |
Lana Bella, Caffeine James R. Rudolph, Born on a Friday in March |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Barry Charman, Adrift Oonah V. Joslin, Dali’s Rose |
Departments
| Interview | Bewildering Stories interviews James R. Rudolph |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Carl Ross Beideman, Barry Charman, Jude Conlee, and Patrick Doerksen. |
| Challenge |
Challenge 672 perches On the Imbalance Beam. Challenge 672 Response: Elous Telma explains J-Cap and Frank. |
| Letters | Bewildering Stories discusses “Born on a Friday in March” with James R. Rudolph. |
| The Art Gallery |
Denny Marshall, Tecon Richard Ong, Emerald Tower 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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