The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 964
| Novel |
Ralph and Barbra are confined to the same ward, where they fight over a children’s book. Lima goes unpunished for her electronic crimes but is ordered to befriend both Mom and Jim-Jam O’Neily. The youngest 4Hers are excused from their crimes and receive season passes to the amusement park featuring the potentially lethal gigacoaster. Jim-Jam is pardoned for his crimes on condition that he spend the summer tinkering at the NSA and then accepting indentured servitude at Scripps University’s Department of Computational Biology and Bioformatics. The government already has agents in place waiting for him to hack the system. Ralph trashes Jim-Jam’s hideaway. Jim-Jam is bruised and his equipment is busted, but most of his data remains safe on a disc. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Epilogue: The Essential Quality of Charm
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| Novella |
Chelle persuades Sam to use the location of the Spero to exploit Deak’s mistake:
Nemo West, The Lost Wreck of the Spero
Chapter 6: A Plan
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| Short Stories |
New contributor J. C. Miller examines a special reason the Church might need A Bishop for Mars, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor David Rudd cautions against risking the specialized haunting that can take place at Loco Pete’s Leap. |
| Flash Fiction |
Old and young, men and women all need each other on the big-city mean streets: Gary Clifton, Tranquility’s Limit. |
| Poetry | New contributor Michael Barley, Beauty in the Garden and the Stones |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes... |
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| Challenge | Challenge 964 detects an renewed trend in writing. It’s DIY Reading. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Strange Alliance John Eric Ellison, Exoplanet Leisure 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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