The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 866
| Novels |
Yegor appeals to Igor for help in finding Crybaby, but Igor is indifferent. Yegor explains what “near zero” really means. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 29: Dvadtsat’ Devyat’
The visitors from Earth find that the Cygnians have spared no expense in building a grand hotel for offworld tourists. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 25: Earth Sector, Tertia
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| Novella |
The Grand Satrap lounges in decadent splendor. Sing Tzu is hard pressed to aid the rebels. Logan and Rampart continue their desert journey. Arthur Davis, The Morland Basking Plain
Chapter 3: The Grand Satrap
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| Serial | New contributor Richard Dillio brings combatants together in a medieval-style quest for Brokki’s Burial, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Evelyn M. Lewis sends a search and rescue operative to bring back a virtual gamer in distress. Such a task may be impossible in A Solipsist’s Country, part 1;
conclusion. A Southern belle takes revenge on a Yankee carpetbagger: John Mara, Digging Up the Past. New contributor Ana Teresa Pereira depicts two sisters who are very different but have someone in common: The Dark Pond. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor K. A. Williams introduces a bereaved widow who finds consolation in her work on her First Day Back. |
| Poetry | Stephen Ellams, Musical Tastes Change |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Richard Dillio, Ana Teresa Pereira and K. A. Williams. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 866 notes that hydrogen ice can hardly wait to get into action. It sublimates into vapor at a temperature very close to Absolute Zero, at 6° K. |
| The Reading Room |
Phillip E. Temples, Uncontacted Frontier excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Rocket Girl 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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