The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 713
| Novel |
Jackson Bain plans to capture the revolutionaries’ communications headquarters, but his surprise attack comes as no surprise. Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards |
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| Novella | The Clement family care for shipwrecked Michael Walker and his injured father. Michael settles in comfortably but notices a few strange things: Bill Prindle, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, part 3. |
| Serial | In an asteroid belt around the star Hera, mining companies compete viciously with one another and with their own workers: Scott D. Coon, The Workforce Drive, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Mark Leinwand brings onstage an obsessive but clever serial killer. One selected victim refuses to be a target: Target Unexpected, part 1; conclusion. New contributor J. M. Williams shows how spirits may stir a shaman’s blood, but they can’t wield her weapons: The Might of a Shaman. |
| Flash Fiction |
At a funeral, a former couple reviews a complex history of relationships: Edward Ahern, Embers. |
| Short Poetry |
Gary Beck, Blasphemy Ronald Linson, Psychotherapy for the Uploaded Denny Marshall, Space Cloth |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Mark Leinwand and J. M. Williams. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 713 makes its point by Rolling 13. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Baileigh Higgins, The Black Tide: Remnants. |
| The Art Gallery |
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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