The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 990
| Novels |
Matches can be good regardless of kind. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 8: Joe Avery and the Perfect Fit
Max Niemand conspires with Virginia Moore and eludes a shadow, but he must answer a summons from Marshal Rivers. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 12: The Best Laid Plans
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| Short Stories |
Can experiments in bad luck be a military secret? They may be a little too noisy for that:
David Barber, The Luck of Franklin Olds. When a debtors’ prison is the only place one can earn money, it’s best to dress according to one’s means: Amita Basu, Last Day of Freedom, part 1; part 2; conclusion. New contributor Francis DiClemente depicts the confusion ensuing from a mother hippopotamus’s prophetic dream: Hippocampus Forgets, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Spelling bees are tightly controlled exercises in minutiae. Contestants Michael and Michelle find that they have won an unattainable prize: : Ralph E. Shaffer, The Spelling Bee. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor M. D. Smith shows how a spaceship captain might deal with conflicts in two computers’ Artificial Learning Bias. |
| Poetry | Kenneth Nichols, A New Kind of Monogamy |
Memoir |
Lev Raphael vigorously examines a lifelong favorite in its original, in film adaptations and, especially, in translations: Me and the Musketeers. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Francis DiClemente and M.D. Smith. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 990 says issue 990 illustrates a truly Bewildering maxim: if you think you’ve seen everything, Look Again. |
| Letters | Sultana Raza, Richard Ong’s Lighthouse |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Crown of Faeries 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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