The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 746
| Novella | When primed with a human sacrifice, the fascist-killing robot devises a curious checklist against which it measures its prospective victims: Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Attack on an Evil God |
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| Short Stories |
Officer Slattery has a caring partner in Louise on the deep night shift, but his uniform cap is, like Slattery himself, old and very worn:
Gary Clifton, Take Honor Against a Sea of Troubles. A dreamed message is more credible when it comes from a stranger: Edna C. Horning, Treasure for the Taking, part 1; conclusion. Is Hell other people? Sometimes it’s oneself: Bill Kowaleski, To Inferno and Back, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Calling Card Dhruvi Modi, Run, Run, Run |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, The River in Winter Robin Helweg-Larsen, Life Extension |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 746 comes Back Again. |
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| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain, Gary Beck, Perturbations |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Megacity 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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