The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 773
| Novel |
Chief Schiavelli promises Lois a secret. Petrillo and Wayne investigate Edgar Dumont’s apartment. Lucy Nakamura commands Sgt. Cody’s attention and brings him up to speed on New Eden’s inner workings and her own goals. Charles C. Cole, Murder in New Eden
Chapter 12: A Woman’s Ambition
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| Novella | New contributor Robert J. Howe shows how the legendary puppet might have started out as a boy in a hostile environment where his only friend is banished: Pinocchio’s Diary, part 1; part 2 |
| Short Stories |
Before vacationing on a remote island, be sure to check on local customs: Ronald Linson, Sacrifice of the Honored, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Brian William Moore takes a father and son out for a walk on a hospitable but strange exoplanet that is 12 years out of phase with Earth: Tau Ceti f Time. Want to live forever? Make sure you have all your affairs — and equipment — in order before pulling the plug: Carl Perrin, The Reconstituted Man. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Frank Kozusko shows a father and daughter on a “take your child to work” day. The result is very likely not what the schoolteachers had in mind: Merry River. |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, The Search Gary Beck, Disorder |
| Prose Poetry |
New contributor Austine Osas, On That Last Gettin’-Up Mornin’ |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Robert J. Howe, Brian William Moore, Frank Kozusko, and Austine Osas. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories discusses The Blurring Effect. |
| The Reading Room |
Teresa Richards, The Windfall App excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
John Eric Ellison, Sad Eyes 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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