The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 872
| News | This is the last regular issue of the summer or winter quarter, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in the Third Quarterly Review. |
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| Novels |
At Lunino, Yegor turns toward the “living” town of his youth, but he finds he has literally outgrown it. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 35: Tridtsat’ Pyat’
A committee meets in secret to discuss legislation affecting the Cygnians, their technology, and its portents for the world economy. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 31: The Alien Repatriation Act
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| Short Stories |
A former Wedge Warrior is sent on a space mission to salvage the Warriors’ reputation:
Jack Bragen, The Reputation of the Wedge Warriors. The value of a stone depends on the stories one tells about it: Gustav Meyrink, The Opal — tr. Michael Wooff A climber’s last day on a mountain brings the revelation of some strange secrets: Robert Walton, Moroni. |
| Flash Fiction |
Are human beings really qualified to become roving space aliens? Charles C. Cole, Polysapien Spacemen: the Rightly Stuffed. |
| Poetry | John Grey, The Gombalar |
| Short Poetry |
Meg Smith, The Unborn Family |
Departments
| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories discusses Students and Speech |
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| Challenge | Challenge 872 finds games to play when Snowbound. |
| The Art Gallery |
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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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