The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 883
| Novel |
The attack on the Cygnian factory in Botswana seems not to have had the expected effect. Perplexed, the fossil-fuel producers plan to make their effort personal. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction |
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| Novella | Liesl has left Saul and gone home, but he retains her scanner. Despite his doubts about the device, he intends to put it to good use: J. H. Malone, Drunk on Time, part 11; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Salim Kingo depicts Tengzi, of the Reindeer People, an old man who forgets that ambitions for power and status usually come at a price: The Widow. In a nuclear apocalypse, people inside and outside a fallout shelter may think the same way: Gordon Sun, Bunker Mentality, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Timothy Yeo introduces a strange and contagious affliction that affects a school with a rather rigid curriculum: Yixin’s Hunger, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
A haunting can last from youth to a very old age: Gary Inbinder, The Sketch. |
| Short Poetry |
Jo-Ann Newton, Magic Exists |
Translation |
Charles Baudelaire, Enivrez-vous — Get High |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Salim Kingo and Timothy Yeo. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 883 rediscovers Wine, Poetry and Virtue. |
| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, Demurral excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Robot City 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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