The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 966
| News | This is the last regular issue of the third quarter, summer or winter, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the editors’ choices from the quarter in the Third Quarterly Review of 2022. |
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| Novella |
Sam, Triss and Chelle mend the differences dating from their high-school days, and Sam sets out into space, heading for a new adventure in exploration. Nemo West, The Lost Wreck of the Spero |
| Serial | In the end, all’s well that ends well, and Major Weller gets a promotion for his role in the process: Maurice Humphrey, Out of the Darkness of Space, part 3; part 4: conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
A future capital punishment may involve the condemned’s meeting the person for whom their body parts are intended:
Jeffrey Greene, The Compatible. Even in a “good” deal with the Devil, the conditions are the same as ever: Chris Yodice, A Good Deal, part 1; conclusion. |
| Short Poetry |
Anna Ruiz, Visionaries’ Mumbo-Jumbo |
Departments
| Challenge |
Challenge 965 Response: Interstellar Speeds Challenge 966 finds that many stories contain Minor Mysteries. |
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| Letters | Production, with David Rudd |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Close Encounters Channie Greenberg, Then Blossoms 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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