The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 862
| Novels |
Yegor meets some of the glitterati at a film session. Their wealth and fame have sources that are sometimes ironic. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 25: Dvadtsat’ Pyat’
Earthlings are not the only ones who have a faction claiming, “The space aliens have come to eat us!” Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 21: Tertia: Cygnian Sector
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| Novella | Mr. Smith and the EarthTours agent ride out on the Montana prairie in search of Ms. Smith. She finds them: J. H. Malone, Roundup, part 3; part 4. |
| Serial | Leuctra’s and Meredith’s score may remain unsettled, but Jimmy and Riley strike up a new friendship: Max Christopher, The Battles of Leuctra, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor John Rossi shows how selective amnesia can pay off for Big Dan at Work and at Home, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion. Limousine driver Red Lux is a secret agent. He is also a talkative sort and fond of hip patter. His passenger, Lemon Lemone, has come to listen: John R. Taylor, Here You Go. New contributor Mark R. Vickers brings Caleb Edwards to a psychiatrist’s office, where he tells of his experiences in The River of Long Shadows, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Frankie is not nearly twenty, nor is his pay, but the young boxer is more than a match for courage in his down-and-out neighborhood in 1954: Gary Clifton, Not Quite Twenty. |
| Poetry | Stephen Ellams, Lizzie Siddal |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Mark R. Vickers. |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Power Amplifier 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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