The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 779
| Novel |
Plots are afoot both below and above ground. Delumbria gives Pelkey a new position. Meanwhile, Eartha Wayne and Lucy Nakamura are promoted. Charles C. Cole, Murder in New Eden
Chapter 18: Fresh Recruits
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| Novella |
Daedalus builds King Minos’ maze. Despite the architect’s efforts, he and Ariadne find the puzzle easy to solve. Much more mysterious is the mind of King Minos himself. Danko Antolovic, My Name Is Daedalus |
| Serial | Unlike a machine, the human brain can understand how it functions and even repair itself within limits. Until it doesn’t: Tom Crowley, When Working Memory Retires, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
A space pilot may find an ultimate second chance in a black hole: Jeff Dosser, I Dream of Tomorrow. New contributor John Urbanek shows an evil neighbor and a deadly pit in Gutierrez’ Garden. |
| Flash Fiction |
You know of word processors. How about thought processors? They’re the latest thing! Boris Kokotov, A Selling Point. |
| Poetry | Robin Helweg-Larsen, Walking, Then Running |
| Short Poetry |
Gregg Dotoli, Ode to Asbury: Bruce’s Song Channie Greenberg, Scurrilous Anna Ruiz, Anamnesis |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 779 says when you hit rock bottom, start Digging Out. |
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| The Art Gallery |
John Eric Ellison, Love Remembered 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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