The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 792
| Novel |
Lois inspires Chief Schiavelli to make a decision. Petrillo urges Mayor Brandt to make one, too. Meanwhile, Lucy Nakamura faces intruders in City Operations. Charles C. Cole, Murder in New Eden
Chapter 31: City Operations Has an Upgrade
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| Novella |
New contributor Janel Brubaker borrows Phoebe and Medusa from ancient mythology and recasts them as a women facing latter-day persecution. The Cavern of Serpents |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Steve Bates shows how the retribution for cruel oppression can take cosmic dimensions in The Singularity of Louisa Lindsay, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Paul Bluestein casts a compassionate light on senile dementia when an old man discovers One of a Kind. Human beings show all the colors of the rainbow flag. Why not sheep, as well? Dave Henson, Steve, the Coruscating Ewe. |
| Flash Fiction |
Sometimes wine-tasters’ enthusiasms can go under the bottom as well as over the top: Boris Kokotov, An Authentic Gnosis. |
| Poetry | Robin Helweg-Larsen, You Can’t Handle Full Sun |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Corporate Vision Michael J. Collins, Madhouse Soundtrack |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Steve Bates, Paul Bluestein and Janel Brubaker. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories discusses Daedalus and Others, II. |
| Challenge | Challenge 792 checks in at Customs while Crossing the Anachron. |
| The Photo Album |
John Stocks, Liverpool at Night |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Fireside Warmth 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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