The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 703
| Novel |
If you’re going to stage a coup d’état, be sure to cover all the angles in advance. Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards
Chapter 20: The King of North America
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| Short Stories |
Reality may not be as strange as fiction, but it can be funnier:
Gary Clifton, Alien Medical Captives. New contributor Cindy O’Quinn brings poetic justice to two couples who have just split up: Loss of Control, part 1; part 2; conclusion. In a bitter colonial war on an alien planet, Field Observer Charlette Thorn must tell the authorities one thing and herself, something quite different: Robert Stephenson, A Battleground Muse, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Poetry | Channie Greenberg, Sneering at Womanizing Linguistics |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, Before the Morning Comes Crystalwizard, The Peduncle Karin S. Heigl, Frazzled — Zerfetzt Denny Marshall, Paliens |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Cindy O’Quinn. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 703 pleads, Don’t Eat My Fins. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain, Gary Beck, Fault Lines |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Aurora Discharge 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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