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The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 884

This is the last regular issue of the year. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ choices in the Fourth Quarterly Review and, on December 28, in the Annual Review. We’ll resume regular publication with issue 885 on January 4, 2021.
Novel The fossil-fuel conspiracy makes a desperate attempt against James Martin, and the fusion-power “cabal” makes a final reckoning of its own efforts.
Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Short
Stories
Who is really in the Santa Claus suit, the elf constume or behind the political-figure mask? The people in those costumes may be wondering the same thing: Harrison Kim, Solstice in the City.

Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Hines, in search of eateries to recommend in their book Adventures in Good Eating, discover a finger-lickin’ good one in rural Kentucky in the 1930’s: James Penha, Filling Station, part 1; conclusion.
Flash
Fiction
At long last, a gatekeeper may get some well-earned time off, to enjoy what lies beyond the gate: Charles C. Cole, The Gatekeeper.
Poetry “Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind,
we’ll drink a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.”
Boris Kokotov, Auld Acquaintance
Short
Poetry
Michael R. Burch, Duet
Michael Wooff, December Light

Departments

Challenge Challenge 884 wonders about some things and asks Where Off Earth...?
The Reading
Room
Ellis L. “Skip” Knox, Into the Second World excerpt
The Art
Gallery
Channie Greenberg, Triplets

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: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — the motto of the French Republic — is not an enumeration, it‘s a formula: liberty + equality promotes fraternité.

Randomly selected classic rejection notice: She is a painfully dull, inept, clumsy, undisciplined, rambling and throughly amateurish writer whose every sentence, paragraph and scene cries out for the hands of a pro. — (for Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls)

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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