The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 871
| Novels |
Yegor heads down a country road to Lunino and forty years into his past. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 34: Tridtsat’ Chetire
In Gaborone, Mr. Mundenda is being abducted, and the Cygnians have installed a huge example of industrial architecture. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 30: Back to Gaborone, part 1;
part 2
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| Serial | Thanatos seeks justice either now or in the hereafter: J. H. Zech, Eden’s End: The Empty Cell, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Charles David Taylor brings into conflict characters who quote Scripture at each other. They all ought to heed a verse they don’t quote: “They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7): Delphi, Voice From the Cloud, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion. Sylvie is understandably reluctant to go on dates after dark: Walter Giersbach, Light Up My Life. |
| Flash Fiction |
Amita brings poetic justice from very far away: Gary Clifton, Karma Bites Back. |
| Poetry |
Lori R. Lopez, Social Graces LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Lethe’s Lullaby |
| Short Poetry |
John Grey, Revised Instructions |
Interview |
Bewildering Stories interviews Richard Ong. |
| Letter | Bertil Falk, News From Bertil |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Charles David Taylor . |
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| Challenge | Challenge 871 discovers a therapeutic technique that seems self-defeating: Rehabductionism. |
| The Art Gallery |
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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