What’s in Issue 261
| Novel |
Claës Lundin, Oxygen and Aromasia The ‘archaic’ poet Apollonides visits a newspaper office to put in a good word for Aromasia in the parliamentary election. He’s led a merry chase, and he finds out more about the newspaper business in the 24th century than he really wants to know: |
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| Serial | If you can’t please everybody, maybe you can at least please somebody — if not in thought or smell, then perhaps in taste: Thomas J. Keller, What to Believe, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
Linda, of the planetary patrol, has her own way of interrogating a prisoner — make him walk while she rides her horse: Crystalwizard, Breaking Points. New contributor Randy Foster takes a band member on a trip into his future, where the music is still good and there’s a bit of relived nostalgia to go with it: Rock and Roll Fantasy. New contributor Kyle Hemmings gives a new meaning to the term ‘head mistress’: They Don’t Catch Colds in Texas, part 1; conclusion. New contributor David Nordin tells an extended joke about llamas in farming country: And the Sign Read “Taters”. The customers are sometimes right; it may be best to go through the escape hatch while the going is good: Arthur Vibert, Into the Light. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Sarah Hilary looks with a jaundiced eye upon precognition and second sight: Yesterday’s Man. New contributor Josh Skinner wonders how beliefs might adapt to mutation-causing rain: Lilly’s Baptism. |
| Poetry |
Darby Mitchell, There is a Place Mel Waldman, Beautiful Place by the Sea |
| Short Poetry |
Kenneth Nichols, The Late Edition |
| Essay | Okay, what did you do on your summer vacation? Steven Utley, My Miracle Summer. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Randy Foster, Kyle Hemmings, Sarah Hilary, Thomas J. Keller, David Nordin, and Josh Skinner. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 261 precognites Back in the Saddle Again. |
| The Art Gallery |
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day |
| Editorial | Jerry Wright announces: Observation One Arrives!. |
Bewildering Stories News
Bewildering Press: Michael E. Lloyd’s Observation One is now available at Bewildering Press. The sequel, Observation Two, appears in issues 225-237.
Previously published works at BwPress: Jack Alcott, Grim Legion; Sam Ivey, Gilboy’s Quest
Next week: The Third Quarterly Review appears next week. We will resume regular publication with issue 262 on October 8.
Mail: Your Copy Editor’s e-mail accounts began playing hide-and-seek during the first week in September, when I was traveling, and I’m still trying to catch up. Any contributors who have not received an acknowledgment, please send a query.
Sample page: Contributors who would like to see what an ideally formatted submission looks like, with explanations, click here. You may be pleasantly surprised; it’s really very simple.
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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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