The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 621

News	Richard Ong recommends a new link for The Art Gallery: “The Sounds of Saturn.” It’s quite unusual. Thanks, Rich!
Novel	At the U.N. General Assembly, Falkenhorst introduces Nacroanus, who announces Mammon’s plans for the world and prepares to unveil Belthaeous. John W. Steele, The Chronicle of Belthaeous Chapter 51: The Sons of Mammon Chapter 52: Bloody Liver Ridge Chapter 53: Divine Right
Short Stories	New contributor Steve Davis shows that a passenger vessel’s crash on a desert planet can reveal the Risks of Being Human, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Andrey Kuzmichev takes a poet on a journey back to Russia, where his muse appears to him in both Coleridge and catastrophe: Duty Free, part 1; part 2; conclusion.
Drama	The disappointed are rightly wary, but hope may lead to fulfillment: Charles C. Cole, Until Next Time.
Poetry	New contributor Robert O’Connor, The Snow Leopard Part I. The Cave Part II. The Taverns Part III. The Cabin Part IV. The Pursuit, conclusion
Short Poetry	Tom Wylie, Let Go

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Steve Davis, Andrey Kuzmichev, and Robert O’Connor.
The Critics’ Corner	Michael E. Lloyd explicates “The Glass Jar Present”
Challenge	Challenge 621 has a note to an actor: Exit Stage Fast.
The Reading Room	Edward Ahern, The Witches’ Bane excerpt
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art Cassini-Huygens: Sounds of Saturn *Sky and Telescope*, This Week’s Sky at a Glance

Randomly selected Bewildering motto: Les querelles ne dureraient pas si longtemps si le tort n’était que d’un côte. — Disputes would not last so long if only one side were in the wrong. (François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld)

Randomly selected classic rejection notice: Edgar Degas, the painter: “But why are my poems no good? I have such wonderful ideas!”
Stéphane Mallarmé, the poet: “My dear Degas, poems are not made with ideas, they are made with words.”

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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