The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 409
| Drama | Dr. Grant has a birthday party; Wynfield is arrested. Marina J. Neary, Hugo in London, scene 9; scene 10. |
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| Novella | Pavlysh continues reading Nadezhda’s diary to Dag and Sato. They surmise that the robot-controlled ship collected museum specimens for a distant civilization. For Nadezhda, that could be the worst part of a bad bargain: Kir Bulychev, Half a Life, chapter 4, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Elyss G. Punsalan introduces Apo Leticia, a litaniera whose prayers seem to have power against illness. She’s a caring, honest soul, and even Death befriends her: Pursuit of the Litaniera, part 1; conclusion. The true name of the deity gives life to the golem, and the golem’s name is Resistance: Mimi Rosen, Extraordinary Man. You’d think a good-looking fellow would have advantages in approaching ladies, but when he’s a vampire, sometimes he just can’t win for losing: Clarise Samuels, The Vampire Papers. Great pillars of achievement may stand on the random gravel of unrecorded history: Ian D. Smith, The Timeless Mr. Thelwall. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Jasmine Silver depicts a couple whose lack of communication puts them In the Lobster Pot. |
| Poetry |
Ashok Rajamani, In India, Soaked in Sweat and Sex John Stocks, You Disappear |
| Prose Poetry |
Cleveland W. Gibson, Death in the Moonlight |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Elyss G. Punsalan and Jasmine Silver. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 409 tools about in Motorboats on the Styx. |
| The Art Gallery |
Üzeyir Lokman Çaycı, Winged Trilobites (mandala) NASA: Picture of the Day Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance |
Bewildering Stories News
Travel: Your Managing Editor will be traveling November 20 to 28. E-mail contacts will be sporadic. Please be patient.
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“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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