The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 982
| Novel |
Max Niemand, traveling as Matt Rogers, sets out from Santa Teresa and meets important local personages in a house of singing, dancing, drinking and card playing. Miss Daisy’s is a house of another sort. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 4: Doyle’s Roadhouse and Miss Daisy’s
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| Serial | New contributor Victor Kreuiter introduces Big Marvin, who interviews a youngster who has purchased a Kill Permit in a society where murder is legal, within strict limits: Marvin, I’m Glad You’re Here, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
How can one talk out marital problems with someone who prefers to chomp celery rather messily?
Gil Hoy, Mending Marriages With TV Reruns. New contributor Paul Lonardo convenes six retired Rhode Island policemen, who trade murder-mystery stories. The most mysterious story must be seen to be believed: Siren Call, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Katherine Westermann depicts an android-human love story confronting the dark ambitions harbored by later models of artificial intelligence: Reset, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Artificial intelligence in an automobile can lead to a lasting friendship: Charles C. Cole, A Conversational Auto. |
| Poetry | Michael Wooff, Raminagrobis |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Victor Kreuiter, Paul Lonardo and Katherine Westermann. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 982 finds that legends can be recounted by a voice that may seem Familiar. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Garden of Two Suns 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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