The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 804
| Novel |
In staged combat with wild animals, Riku freezes and earns her companions’ contempt. But the High Priestess’s daughter, Izzie, cautions them that she has other plans for Riku. L. S. Popovich, Echoes From Dust |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Michael J. Albers introduces TeeLynn, whose intense agoraphobia urges her, against all caution, to stay aboard the generation ship and not take the Last Shuttle Down, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion. New contributor Marshall Moore takes artificial intelligence past the “singularity” of consciousness and into the realm of the human, with all its moral perils: The Periodic Table of the Angels. |
| Flash Fiction |
Respect winter. It does not always follow the calendar: Charles C. Cole, Royal Out of Season. |
| Poetry |
Thulani E. Buthelezi, Penal Periods New contributor Gennady Sherman, Lucky Dog |
| Short Poetry |
Donna Dallas, Portrait of a Woman |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Marshall Moore and Gennady Sherman. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories hears Voices Bodied and Disembodied with Patric Quinn. |
| Challenge | Challenge 804 contemplates various ways of Passing Tests. |
| The Reading Room |
Matthew McAyeal, Melody |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Crossroads to Martyrdom 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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