The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 931
| News | This is the last regular issue of 2021. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ choices from the Fourth Quarter (issues 920 through 931) and, on December 27, the Editors’ choices for the year in the Annual Review. We resume regular publication on January 3, 2022. |
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| Novel |
Dan finds that victory over a deadly enemy brings reflief but also perplexity and self-doubt. Who can love a superhero such as he has become? John Rossi, The Adventures of Dead Dan: The Old Religion, part 8; conclusion |
| Novella |
The anti-android paramilitaries of the Red Blood Brigade have been defeated in the Solar System but are as murderously fanatical as ever when they reach Alphane 3. The only hope the colonists have resides in two men that the Brigade has every reason to expect to be its allies; Egon and Klunk: Bill Bowler, Klunk, part 5; conclusion, |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Shuvayon Mukherjee shows that there is no wrong time to be kind, even or perhaps especially when there is Rain on the Highway. New contributor Norm Rosolen brings a daughter to visit her artist father. She is very concerned about the source of his inspiration for portraiture: Dan and Sylvia, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
At year’s end and on other occasions, people usually enjoy sending greeting cards. It’s a charming custom, and one never knows how important a card may be: Charles C. Cole, Cards of Comfort. |
| Poetry | New contributor Kelli Simpson, In the Hometown of the Devil |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Shuvayon Mukherjee, Norm Rosolen and Kelli Simpson. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 931 sees that some stories go home in a way, sometimes Down Home. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, A Prayer for Evangeline 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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