The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 929
| Novel |
Dead Dan Collins calls upon his supernatural strength in doing battle with E’s giant mastiffs. But things can go just a little too far; Dan takes exception to E’s deliberately siccing the dogs on him. John Rossi, The Adventures of Dead Dan: The Old Religion, part 6 |
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| Novella |
The spaceship carrying Egon and his fellow emigrants arrives near the “humans only” colony on Alphane 3. Bad news is received from verious sources, and a member of the spaceship crew — an android — goes missing. Bill Bowler, Klunk, part 3 |
| Short Stories |
Things do not go well when Julian, who is Aria’s space-alien psychotherapist, becomes insanely jealous of Chiz, who is her police informant boyfriend:
Shauna Checkley, Afternoon of the Lizard King. New contributor Alexander Morrall introduces Paru and her pet robot dog, Lupus. They risk untold perils in exploring an exoplanet on which they hope to make A New Home. How did the legend begin that a post-medieval Russian serf lord could exercise tyrannical power even from beyond his deathbed? Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, The Time of Serfdom — tr. Patricia Worth |
| Flash Fiction |
Out in the country, on a 12-acre tree farm, life may pass quietly in a calm routine until strange visitors seem to take an interest in year-round Christmas tree lights: Charles C. Cole, Cloudy With a Chance of Visitors. |
| Poetry | Maurice Humphrey, A Celestial Squabble. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Alexander Morrall. |
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| The Reading Room |
K. C. Gray, Singular Multiplicity excerpt |
| Letters | Bertil Falk announces the publication of his Joyce Translation. |
| 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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