The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 999
| Novels |
The Elf King has sent not-so-secret agents to shadow Joe Avery and ensure his loyalty. But Joe has earned many folkloric friends, and he and they are loyal to a principle. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 14: Joe Avery Meets the King’s Men
Duke Placco learns that his newly seized power does not impress the Marshal. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 20: The New Boss Pays a Call on the Marshal
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| Novella |
New evidence may overturn the verdict in the Red Daggers trial. Adrian Marlow is allowed to visit Burroughs, where he sees how the Numen live. Brian Yapko, San Damien and the Red Daggers
Chapter 5: Unanswered Questions
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Steven Lebow shows that settlers who go to another planet need to know in advance what may well be the human cost of The Path of Life in Space. New contributor Shawn Yager introduces a nice lady and her dog. She meets friendly people who are busy evolving and claim her as The Tipping Point. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Robert Feinstein gives the name siderodromophobia to an innate condition, a Fear of Trains. |
| Poetry |
Bobby Parrott, The Numinous Undoing of Thought-Trees Dirtside Richard Stevenson, Zapping Zombies in Kansas |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Robert Feinstein, Steven Lebow and Shawn Yager. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 999 echoes the opening words of the heroic slogan: One for All.... |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Chasm of Madness Channie Greenberg, The Patterns in the Keris Blade 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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