The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 700
| Novel |
Jiri makes a business deal with clavie revolutionaries. Meanwhile, Mira and Bain raise some intriguing questions. Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards
Chapter 16: An Advertising Campaign
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Sam Buckley depicts an insurrectionist’s life in a town under military occupation by mysterious creatures:
Majoring in Semtex, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Julio X. Palomino introduces a biology student who may have found a way to “cheat death”: Roots of Consciousness. New contributor Dave Wisker reminds us of an old nightmare, one we forget at our peril. And the moral dilemmas it can pose are very real: Blood Group. |
| Flash Fiction |
Why might a perfectly good rowboat suddenly appear out of the ground in Lester Stanhope’s driveway? Charles C. Cole, Frost Heave. |
| Poetry | Channie Greenberg, Laudanum Tinctures |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Resolutions Shola Balogun, When You Left Me, Isis James R. Rudolph, The Soft Padding of Young Lions |
| Essay | Boghos L. Artinian suggests that we WETE: Wait for Extraterrestrial Echoes. |
Departments
| Editorial | Bewildering Stories explains How to Update Your BwS Bibliography. |
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| Discussion | Bewildering Stories acknowledges Compliments. |
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Sam Buckley, Julio X. Palomino, and Dave Wisker. |
| Challenge | Challenge 700 cites the three Rules of Resistance. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain, Marina J. Neary, Big Hero of a Small Country |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Magnetic Storm 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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