The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 384
| Novel |
Detective O’Leary finds out who bombed the Net server. Now the question is: to what end? Karlos Allen, Rusted Chrome |
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| Novella |
The door opens on Flea and Honey, Floater and Shirley to reveal an irate Mr. Loom. In the aftermath, Flea hesitates; and after Nick’s intrusion, Honey has doubts: Bill Bowler, High School Honey |
| Serial |
Capt. Jim Blunt travels to the frontier world Thimble. His job: to resolve the problem of pestiferous semi-intelligent native species. His contract is implicitly that of hired gun, but Blunt’s nature is to ask questions first and shoot only if he has to: Danielle L. Parker, Reaper, part 1; part 2; part 3; part 4; part 5; part 6 |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Rick Borger takes a rebellious teenager, Phyllis, to a place where the dinosaurs are big and hungry and the human beings may be both less and more than they seem: Timeshare Vacation. New contributor Colleen Quinn salutes the loving, lovable androids of yore: Dancing Fool. Francis Glynn goes mad in a loveless marriage. His escape might be funny if it weren’t so sad: Daniel Shebses, Miranda. |
| Flash Fiction |
Why did the lovely lady invite the man to her place? The answer is in Grandmother’s volcanic bauble: John Ritchie, Where I Hide the Djinn. A time-traveling runner brings a fateful message to a despondent young man: Farida Samerkhanova, My Second Death — (in Russian; in Tatar) |
| Poetry | John Stocks, In the Showroom Cinema: October |
| Short Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Tree Surgeon |
| Memoir | New contributor Eric G. Müller recounts a vision of a ghostly horse at night on a road in Zululand: The Horse. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Rick Borger and Eric G. Müller. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 384 To the Tracks and Back Again |
| The Art Gallery |
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art |
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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