The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 743
| Novella |
Joe has a dream in which he commits a murder. Maggi joins the Lookout Beaver Club, which specializes in magic. The Club has a killer robot that seems ready to run amok unless kept under control. Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Attack on an Evil God |
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| Short Stories |
Private detective Johnny Adams prides himself on his keen intuition until he takes a case that just won’t stay solved:
Roy Dorman, Not Done Just Yet, part 1; conclusion. Can Zeno’s famous tortoise outrun Achilles? Surveillance footage of employee work habits would make it seem so. Or does Achilles win after all? Matthew Harrison, Zeno’s Corporation. New contributor Nathan Kamal tells a fable that seems to apply disturbingly well to human children: Mark the Ocelot’s Summer at Camp. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor James Taylor depicts the amusing — or appalling — effects of music when played by The Catfish King. |
| Short Poetry |
Gary Beck, Virtual America John Grey, On Any Given Night |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Nathan Kamal and James Taylor. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 743 goes Up the Down Tubes. |
| Letters | Lewayne L. White recalls Good Experiences. |
| The Reading Room |
S. J. Rapala, Broken Worlds excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Snow Queen 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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