The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 516

Novel	Colonel Redgger’s power struggle with Jane bodes ill for human-Dohani relations. But a breakthrough is achieved in teaching Jane human language. At the beginning she tells a very simple story that says it all: “Dohani good. Human bad. Jane loves Dexter.” Martin Kerharo, The Dohani War Chapter 10: Diplomacy Chapter 11: Words, part 1; part 2
Short Stories	New contributor Ron J. Cruz hands Steven Ferris a condundrum. Steven can be cured of his illness, but then who will he be? Ferris Wheel, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Philip Murray-Lawson piles on levels of satire that might have come straight out of this week’s headlines: The Extinction Game. Can an android overcome her human programming? She may, if she’s programmed well enough: Alexander G. Tozzi, Kill the Hurkle!
Flash Fiction	New contributor Carly Berg portrays a party where the participants quarrel and a couple get Bitten.
Poetry	David Barber, Ruben de la Vialle, 1660 Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Glaciers Come Slowly?
Short Poetry	Thomas F. Wylie, Cold Car

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Carly Berg, Ron J. Cruz, and Philip Murray-Lawson.
The Critcis’ Corner	*Bewildering Stories* discusses Misunderstandings in The Dohani War. Don Webb, Marezydoats in Outer Space James Graham, William Blake’s “Innocence” *Bewildering Stories* responds to “William Blake’s ‘Innocence’.”
Challenge	Challenge 516 wonders about the connection between Body and Soul.
The Reading Room	David Redd, Labours of Love: Philip Harbottle, Algis Budrys
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art *Sky and Telescope*, This Week’s Sky at a Glance

Randomly selected Bewildering motto:

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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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