The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 941
| Novel |
Meet teenage science genius James Jackson (“Jim-Jam”) Ariel O'Neily and his science hut. Meet also some of Jim-Jam's nemeses, including his cousin, Ralph Dupas, the Diskin Twins, and the local high-school's reigning teen style titan, Ralph Dupas' girlfriend, Lynnie Lola Jones. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter 1: Ralph’s Blemish
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| Novella | The group of condemned prisoners move deeper into the labyrinthine cave, and the mage Penelope tells of trying to make forbidden contact with her deceased friend, Nephele: Christopher DeRosa, The Nadir of the Labyrinth, Part 2: The Mage’s Tale. |
| Short Stories |
Perry learns of her father’s death and recalls an old story they used to share about the perils that Spacers face when they fly into the Dark:
David Barber, Pioneer 10 at the Heliopause. New contributor D. A. Cairns introduces Strom, who is very old and very ill but willing to volunteer as a Guinea Pig in a long-odds medical experiment. Stanley has retreated from a sordid past into a remote northern town. It is not the refuge he thought it would be: John W. Steele, Iceberg, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Rachel New depicts a young couple whose happiness flows from the algorithms of Predictive Text. |
| Poetry |
Gary Inbinder, A Broken Vessel LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Volcano Vixen |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Rachel New. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 941 thinks Hamlet was right to say that what dreams may come must Give Us Pause. |
| 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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