The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1028
| Novels |
Mary O’Neill tells Max Niemand of being taken on a lengthy blindfolded automobile excursion to meet Dan Buford, who wants to set a ransom for her brother, Bob. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge
Chapter 17: Mary O’Neill’s Underworld Adventure,
Language lessons in French are notoriously difficult in 19th-century Britain. Digby ensures that Beatrice Belham’s unwanted fiancé will wish his lessons were purely academic. Steven Schechter, A Victorian Romance
Chapter 3: French Language Lessons, part 1;
part 2
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| Short Stories |
When a shipload of colonists arrives at a new planet, they find that its indigenous life is resisting terraforming and that some arrangement will be needed.
David Barber, Crossing the Line, part 1;
conclusion A boy playing on a beach hears a seagull warn him of danger. Michael Barley, The Seagull Messenger New contributor Margaret Pearce hires non-telepathic foreigners as governors on Janus, a planet of telepaths, thus creating The Janus Paradox, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Injustice knows no bounds.
Gary Clifton, As Society Demands In the company of some people, one sometimes needs to take a break, even a real one. Josie Gowler, Dinner Break |
| Short Poetry |
Brenda Mox, Things Primordial |
Departments
| Editorial | Don Webb, Republication |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Margaret Pearce. |
| Challenge | Challenge 1028 tries to count The Unaccountable. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Tapestry Bones Channie Greenberg, Quandary Ron Sanders, Sight Reader 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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