The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 788
| Novel |
Lucy and Eartha drop everything and prepare to reverse-engineer a cryonics chamber. Chief Schiavelli and Petrillo find that self-styled “secret” agent Toby Pelky is more than a handful. Charles C. Cole, Murder in New Eden
Chapter 27: Keeping Things in Hand
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| Serial | After a day of “high-school hell,” Tom is consoled by a fresh perspective from a friendly voice: Tim Miller, The Spoons of Jupiter, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
Self-discipline brings self-fulfillment. It doesn’t work the other way around:
Channie Greenberg, The Extraordinary Quality of Happenstances of Small Importance, part 1;
conclusion. Conspiracy theories can be exciting fare for bored passengers waiting for an overdue train: Scott Jessop, What’s Coming on the 8:15? part 1; part 2; conclusion. New contributor Lisa Phipps paints a picture of friendship and hope for a pregnant teenager in Mandy’s Song, part 1; conclusion. |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Michael J. Collins, Red Dancer |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Michael J. Collins and Lisa Phipps. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 788 says Simplest Is Best... but seldom easiest. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Craig DiLouie, One of Us. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, A Goddess of Olympus 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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