The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 842
| Novels |
Yegor has a lot of opportunities, but none seem to go well. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 5: Pyat’
The Cygnians bring to Earth the equivalent of a goose laying golden eggs. But selling it isn’t easy, and the Cygnians are as conniving as Earthlings. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 1: The Sociologist and the Salesman
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| Short Stories |
Violent criminals evoke fear and disgust. Homicide detectives Maggs and McCoy have a prime duty: to be better than the bad guys.
Gary Cifton, The Last Word. New contributor Bill Teitelbaum asks waiting airline passengers to take a break and answer The Questionnaires, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Yu Zheng-Rong examines the problems of construction on a land steeped in tradition: The House, the Lot — tr. John Haymaker |
| Poetry |
Channie Greenberg, Living Charif Ken Poyner, All the Talk of Enuran |
| Short Poetry |
Robin Helweg-Larsen, Post-Adult Michael Wooff, Frozen in Time |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Bill Teitelbaum. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 842 asks incredulously: Thinking Is Futile? |
| The Reading Room |
Gary Beck, Contusions |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Gothic Spires 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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