The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 975
| Novel | Miranda regrets trying to befriend Lucilla. Now Miranda fears that her niece, Daisy, might be possessed: David A. Riley, Lucilla, part 9. |
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| Novella | Duke Rikkon arrives and surveys the scene of desolation left by the battle. Pavill must now come to terms with the loss he has caused his family: Alcuin Fromm, In the High Pass, conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Tim Newton Anderson turns Oscar Wilde’s picture of Dorian Gray upside down. Self-portraits become not a moral register but an evil magician’s source of power in a world where magic has generated corporations and even a bureaucracy:
The Portrait of Damian Black, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion. New contributor Varden M. Frias depicts a fantastcal tyrant-slave industrial conflict that erupts in a veritable flood of blood, gore and violence: Leeder’s Doll Limb Bouquet Co., part 1; part 2; conclusion. New contributor Ann Yuan introuduces Hanyu, an injured warrior who seeks a cure by stealing the Dragon Pearl. A comrade in arms brings her Another Way to Heal. |
| Poetry |
Edward Ahern, The Proof New contributor Celine Rose Mariotti, Time Capsule |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Tim Newton Anderson, Varden M. Frias, Celine Rose Mariotti, and Ann Yuan. |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Spirit Wendigo 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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