The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 742
| News | This is the last regular issue of 2017. Next week, we’ll bring you the Fourth Quarterly Review and, on December 25, the 2017 Annual Review. We’ll resume regular publication on January 1, 2018. |
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| Serial | It’s been an active time in Pretty Prairie, a normally peaceful town. A lot has been going on. But what? Everybody knows something, but nobody knows everything: James Krehbiel, Pure in Their Own Eyes, Epilogue. |
| Short Stories |
January is acknowledged as an artist of genius. Unfortunately, his genius is qualified by what he is rather than what he does:
David Henson, The Greatest Artist of the 22nd Century, New contributor Anna O’Brien brings Agent Clarke to a poor, starving farm family. She is baffled by a vigorous little girl who is obviously wealthy: The Data Eaters, part 1; conclusion. On an orphanage planet in an interstellar war, the days can be long and years, even longer unless they are lightened by loves of different kinds: Ljubo Popovich, The Heart of Cygnus, part 1; conclusion. |
| Drama | How can a couple say a final goodbye without sentimentality? Charles C. Cole, Once More, With Feeling. |
| Poetry |
Edward Ahern, At the Cottage John Grey, To Earth From the Planet of the One Percent |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Anna O’Brien. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 741 Response has a flair for catchy titles: Bastards, Dastards and Matrimony. Challenge 742 deliberately misquotes a proverb: You Are What You Reat. Challenge 742 Response wants The Knave of Hearts Retried. |
| The Reading Room |
Isabelle Kenyon, This Is Not a Spectacle excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Siege of the Ice Fortress 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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