The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 991
| Novels |
Joe Avery finds that the three Goats Gruff are not all of the same inclination when it comes to safeguarding a wealthy dignitary like Humpty Dumpty. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 9: Joe Avery Meets the Goats Gruff
Max meets Marshal Rivers for a confidential interview. Max has important decisions to make about his quest and even his identity. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 13: Red Rivers
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| Serial | New contributor Quintin Snell gives an unlikely pair of heroes a way to save humanity from an apocalypse in The Long Winter Time. part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Graham J. Darling depicts a gang of high-school bullies who meet someone who doesn’t play by their rules: The Queer Kid. New contributor J. A. Heath brings old man Grax to stalk a dragon when the two have A Score to Settle. New contributor Jordan Zachary gives a final purpose to Memory’s End. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Huina Zheng relates the complexity of a family whose relationships might be described as Sprained. |
| Poetry | New contributor Lynn White, House in the Country |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Graham J. Darling, J.A. Heath, Quintin Snell, Lynn White, Jordan Zachary and Huina Zheng |
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| Challenge | Challenge 991 says that in some stories, “anything goes”; in others, it seems that Anything Went. |
| The Reading Room |
Classic Reissue: John Dominic Crossan, God & Empire — review article by Don Webb |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Dryad Dreams 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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