The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 997
| Novel |
Max visits John Merwin’s opulent estate and comes to an agreement with the wealthy landowner about the Phantom Point map and Max’s mission to rescue Hugo Van Dorn. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 18: John Merwin
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| Novella |
Absalom Pound and Adrian Marlow exchange confidential messages about a forthcoming trial for the seven Red Daggers accused of sabotaging the San Damien dome. Brian Yapko, San Damien and the Red Daggers
Chapter 3: The Strong Arm of the Law
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| Short Stories |
Why has Dominick dumped Arianna for Wendy? How can Arianna possibly find out?
Shauna Checkley, The Replacement. In the world of international intrigue thronging with spies and secret agents, “assets” sometimes outlast their usefulness and need to be “corrected”: Gary Clifton, Full Circuit, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
What can relieve a chronically grumpy personality? Sometimes, putting on an act long enough may make it natural: Charles C. Cole, Forcing Good Thoughts. |
| Poetry |
Bobby Parrott, Moonling Cradles Her Face
in Psychosomatic Rabbits Richard Stevenson, The Butler Gargoyle |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 997 says, “Let’s get On With the Show.” | |
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| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, Upon the Lion and the Serpent excerpt Douglas Young reviews Kat Timpf, You Can’t Joke About That | |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Hydrothermal Ron Sanders, Exodus 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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