The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 868
| Novels |
At the Diamond restaurant, Yegor meets Sara Warhola, a captain in State Security. She gives Yegor secret insights into Russian history and society, and she tells him where he might find Crybaby. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 31: Tridtsat’ Odin
A Cygnian anti-predator faction plans to scare visiting Earthlings by mugging them. Their plan goes badly wrong for both them and the tourists. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 27: Botched Operation
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| Novella |
Marcos Xzen and his troops pursue Logan Drewry in a painful, exhausting trek across the desert in a race that will end at the edge of Tunduria. Arthur Davis, The Morland Basking Plain
Tunduria, part 1;
conclusion
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| Serial |
Omega Brown and his Karakian partner, Hoonra, crash-land on a forbidding planet. To escape, they must ward off a monstrous pursuer and deal with a strange society controlled by a Dreamer. Tom Vaine, Omega Brown and the Tellerian Shapeshifter, part 1; part 2 |
| Short Stories |
A lover of old films traces the personal and cinema history of a striking and enigmatic actress. It seems to be summed up mysteriously in a strange film:
Jeffrey Greene, “The Resurrectionist” part 1;
part 2;
conclusion. New contributor Howard Zaharoff depicts how Maurits Escher, the creator of paradoxical artworks, might have experienced dinner in a restaurant when Escher Dines Alone. |
| Flash Fiction |
If genes determine personality, an implant might make family history all the more vivid: Coleman Bomar, The New Fatherhood. |
| Short Poetry |
Douglas Young, Yellow Weeds |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Howard Zaharoff. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 868 asks with feigned innocence: What’s to Sneeze At? |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Symphony of Space and Time 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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