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What’s in Issue 195

Novel The Soltrian agents Dorn and Martin have fit in well among the scientists of MWB-11. But two disasters loom: project New Frontier may succeed, and it may also soon be overrun by invading armies. Danielle L. Parker, Mad World Band, chapter 5; chapter 6, part 1; chapter 6, part 2; chapter 7.
Serial Rhiannon has no end of aggravations: an apparently murderous rogue beast tamer, a smarmy Terran ambassador, and Rosalyn’s bad coffee: Rachel Parsons, One Beast That Cannot Be Tamed, part 1; part 2.
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Stories
On two widely separated but strangely similar occasions, a blue heron is present at a drowning at the same place in a western river: David H. Fears, The Great Blue Heron.

Mary Higgins gets away with murder — for a while: P. S. Gifford, Long Memories.

The moral seems to be never to leave without saying goodbye in person: Norman A. Rubin, The Honored and the Forgotten.

Big Foot wants to pay a visit to a famous, reclusive author: Mark Spencer, The Smell of J. D. Salinger.

The Fairy Tale Police Department has another very complex mystery to unravel: Lewayne L. White, The Omelet Affair, part 1; part 2.
Flash
Fiction
What’s the best way to study history? By living it, of course: Steven C. Levi, An Historical Holograph.

New contributor J. D. Riso has the Shadow Man and the Light Girl dress up for Saturday night: The Things I Will Miss.
Poetry Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Rummy Park, Schrödinger’s Cat
Anna Ruiz, Abstract Though Complex

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories welcomes Brad Andrews and J. D. Riso.
Challenge Clyde Andrews responds to Challenge 194.
Challenge 195 observes: That Was Then, and This Was Then, Too.
Letters John Hawfield writes about Self-Publishing.
The Art
Gallery
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art
The Reading
Room
Danielle L. Parker reviews Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Dragon.
Jerry Wright reviews Anselm Audley's Inquisition
Editorials Jerry Wright, On the Horizon
Don Webb, A Prophet Not Without Honor

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To Bewildering Stories’ schedule: In Times to Come

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