Editors’ Choices: issues 176-188

Bewildering Stories’ First Quarterly Review of 2006

Reminder: Voting in Contest 2 will close with the appearance of issue 189. Click here to go to the Contest index. Please note the announcement of a meta-contest.

This unnumbered issue brings you the editors’ favorites from the first quarter of 2006. New readers will have a sample of what Bewildering Stories has been doing in the past three months, and veteran readers will have the chance to catch up on anything they may have missed. We’ll resume regular publication with issue 189 on March 20. The second quarterly review will cover issues 189-201.

Notes	Everything in green is a link. All serials must have concluded in or before issue 188 in order to qualify. Novel titles link to the authors’ bibliographies; all other links are direct. Related stories are not classified as serials. Multiple selections are listed in chronological order. Contest entries are not eligible; they have their own Editors’ Choices.

Novels & Serials
Katherine Allen, Skoshi Tala Bar, The King’s Daughter Roberto Sanhueza, Katts and Dawgs, Abbey Road \| Kitti’s Tale Donald Schneider, Pride’s Prison
Short Stories & Flash Fiction
Karlos Allen, Shape \| Countdown Clyde Andrews, The Coven’s Curse Maria Beliaeva, Damsel-in-Distress-ophiles D. J. Burnham, The Dinner Guest Colin P. Davies, The Thing from the Thing from Another World \| The Evangelist Beverly Forehand, Fallen Donna Gagnon, A Trick of the Mirror Hungry Guy, Bennie Downloads Marya Jeff Haas, Cacophony of the Spheres \| Immortality Street Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Soldiers by Night Gary Inbinder, The Exterminator Hareendran Kallinkeel, Transcendental Meditation Sam Kean, The Über-Unicorn Harry Lang, The Mountains of the Eldritch Sea Mary B. McArdle, Indigo Dawn Darby Mitchell, Fish Story Steven F. Murphy, Sharpshooter Bolaji Odofin, Apeteshi Rachel Parsons, As I See the Snow Melting Brent Powers, Mud and Champagne Slawomir Rapala, Dragon Scales \| Atlantis Carmen Ruggero, Forget Me Not Katherine Sanger, Nice Fishy Tamara Sheehan, Antiseptic House Willie Smith, Solid Gas \| Break for the Tape \| Unsung Hero \| Control of the Bomb Mark Spencer, Honey, I Am Only a Big Foot \| The King James Allen Starkloff, Experience a Book Thomas R. Willits, Why Do the Willows Weep?
Poetry
Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Meeting Winter \| You in the Future \| Against the Gods \| Limbo Prakash Kona, Diapason \| Ambivalence \| Rites of Passage Michael E. Lloyd, translation of Ronsard’s sonnet Mary B. McArdle, Uncertain Sky \| Subdivision \| Nocturne \| Cathedral Darby Mitchell, Spider Slawomir Rapala, O Vampire, My Love Thomas D. Reynolds, Crash \| New Book \| Methods of Ghosts \| Butterfly Carmen Ruggero, That Gaudy Red Hat \| Winter: A Silent Symphony \| Forever Jasmine \| Quilt of Deception \| Sweet Petunias - Bitter Lemons \| Moonless Night \| You Light My Candle Ian D. Smith, The Cleverest Man in World \| Growing Tree Vishal Thapar, The Corridor on the 6th Floor Graciela Tillard, Sketches
Articles & Essays
Tala Bar, The Treasure Hunt in Life, Mythology and Literature Mark Finn, Texas as Character in Robert E. Howard’s Fiction John Olson, Monsieur Dupont Thomas Lee Joseph Smith, Interview with Aslan Steven Utley, Another Dream Movie \| Science Marches On \| Spawn of the Moon Bounce \| Hard Times for Heroines \| The Autobiography of an Autodidact

The Critics’ Corner
Carmen Ruggero, Short Fiction vs. Novel Don Webb, Writing Action and Plot
Challenges
From One Age to the Next Pointed Rhetorical Questions What is the Über-Answer? Poets Apart	Valentine’s Presence Pick an Ending What’s a Superhero To Do?
Editorials
Thoughts for Beginning Writers Books We Gotcher Books So What’s Happening	Growing Pains Education Revisited

Write-in poll: What are your favorites? In any or all categories of this First Quarterly Review, imagine you are recommending at least one title to a friend, relative or acquaintance — real, virtual or imaginary — who might be interested. If you can tell why in a sentence or two, that would help a lot. The results may be published in The Critics’ Corner of a regular issue. We’ll omit names unless you request that yours be included. Please send us your recommendations!

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