The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 791
| Novel |
The city’s power goes out. A visitor threatens Mayor Brandt. Wayne, Lucy, Cody and Chief Schiavelli race to save the frozen soldiers. The long-expected underground uprising seems to be under way. Charles C. Cole, Murder in New Eden
Chapter 30: No Power, No Sleeping Soldiers
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| Short Stories |
Two downtrodden editors find a new meaning in the term “ghost writer”:
Walter Giersbach, Rosamonde Calley. Romance is risky. Happy they whom fortune favors: Channie Greenberg, Sanjit, the Binturong. New contributor Sergio Hartshorne has Wrassian undertake a perilous mission to spend a last few minutes with an ailing mother: Sons and Mothers, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Pledging a fraternity can be arduous. Perhaps a protective housemother can help: Ralph E. Shaffer, Pledge Break. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Serene Autumn recasts Narcissus as a devoted brother: The Narcissus Flower. |
| Poetry | Michael Murry, Gargoyles and Grotesques |
| Short Poetry |
Robin Helweg-Larsen, First Contact David Whippman, The Fall of Sherlock Holmes |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Serene Autumn and Sergio Hartshorne. |
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| Challenge |
4QR18 Challenge Response discusses Daedalus and Others. |
| The Reading Room |
Clark Zlotchew, The Caucasian Menace excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Arctic Light 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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