The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 857
| Novels |
Zalekha plans a terrorist bombing, and Ratsov hands her the munitions. Weapons are brandished, and Rafshan sings a hymn to hypocrisy. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 20: Dvadtsat'
Dr. Landis, Keyshawn and Elka happen upon a meeting with Stephen Mudenda and a Chinese delegation. Interstellar intellectual property rights complicate international relations mightily. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 16: Confrontation, part 1;
part 2
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| Serial | New contributor Rick Kennett introduces Cy De Gench, a veteran of an interstellar war. She returns to a planet where she had been marooned and hopes to rejoin a familiar spider: The Gods in Their Galleries, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
Higher education develops talents. The object is to find which one has and which one lacks:
Andrew L. Hodges, Bitter Mercies, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Ed Kratz raises a question for a young girl of marriageable age: can magic do as well as good luck? Edna Goes to the Frogs. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Sterling Warner has a student’s demand put a professor in a PC Dilemma. |
| Poetry |
Edward Ahern, The Limits of Writing Shawn Jacobson, Redshirt |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Rick Kennett, Ed Kratz and Sterling Warner. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 857 muses while cornered. One might say it’s Cornerstoned. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Supermoon 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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