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Bewildering Stories’
Third Quarterly Review, 2011

The Editors’ Choices: issues 436-447

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Everything in green is a link.
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Bewildering Stories ends the season — summer or winter — with the Review Editors’ selection of favorites from the third quarter of 2011. New readers will have easy access to the recent best of Bewildering Stories, and veteran readers will have a chance to catch up on anything they may have missed.

The Quarterly Reviews answer a practical question: “If a friend asked you to recommend something from the past quarter of Bewildering Stories, what would you choose?” These are our recommendations.

While the Quarterly Reviews are not a contest or competition in the strict sense of the term, we’ll match them against any contest or poll in terms of fairness. And there are no quotas: everything or nothing in any genre may qualify. The Review Editors vote according to their estimate of each work’s success on its own terms.

As always, the Review Board’s discussions have been extensive and lively. A big Thank You to Bill Bowler, Bertil Falk, Gary Inbinder, Harry Lang, Michael E. Lloyd, Carmen Ruggero, Sarah Ann Watts and Lewayne L. White.

We also express special gratitude to our Coordinating Editor Bill Bowler and the Associate Editors. Their insightful and detailed critiques of submissions help us set what we like to think is an Internet standard for editorial practice and for service to our contributors and readers.

The Quarterly News

In the past 12 weeks, the Review Editors cast 640 votes on 93 titles, 39 of which have qualified as Editors’ Choices. Two sets of titles are subsumed under common titles: one in Serials, another in Poetry and Short Poetry.

Serials and Poetry are especially distinguished in this quarter. The Departments — the Challenge Responses, Discussions and Editorials as well as the Art Gallery and Reading Room — have all been quite active.

We think our Review Editors reflect the range of opinion to be found among our readers. The Order of the Hot Potato is as lively as ever with 18 titles.

The Order of Merit is continued for reader interest and as a special acknowledgment to our contributors. It links to the most highly rated work in each genre represented by more than one title. A few other works not listed are nonetheless odds-on favorites to qualify for the 2011 Mariner Awards, at year’s end.

We congratulate the authors represented here. They and their works have well earned the honor. We hope they will inspire all our contributors.

Regular publication resumes with issue 448 on September 26, 2011.

Reminder: everything in green is a link.
The following table also serves as a linked index to all the genres and sections in the Review.

Titles selected of titles eligible   Special listings
Novel
Novellas
Serials
Short Stories
Flash Fiction
0 of 1
0 of 2
2 of 3
14 of 41
3 of 16
Poetry
Short Poetry
Essays
Memoirs
Drama
13 of 15
4 of 8
1 of 3
1 of 1
1 of 1
Departments
The Quarter’s Best Issues
The Order of the Hot Potato
The Quarter’s Most Bewildering Issues
The Order of Merit
Serials Matthew T. Acheson, Whispers From the North
Hongping Liu, The King of the Forest
Essays James Graham, Li Qingzhao’s Ornaments
Memoirs Kathleen Rohr, No Place to Roost
Drama Jess Hyslop, Morning Light

Departments

All selections are listed in chronological order.
The Art Gallery and Reading Room are excepted from the Quarterly Reviews.
Challenges Challenge Responses, Discussions
The Unbespectacled Man
The Riddle of the Night Sun
The Mandrill’s Hand
All Dressed Up
I’m a Little Teased Pot
And They Are Us
“Search Light” and “My Sculpted Garden”
with Thomas F. Wylie & John Stocks
“Love Letters Lost” with John Stocks
“Love Letters Lost” with Thomas F. Wylie
Error and Mistake
Story vs. Vignette with Thomas F. Wylie
“Paradise Mislaid” with Thomas F. Wylie
Comedy and Realism in “Josh Henry”
Venuses Red and Dark
Editorials
Danielle L. Parker, On Book Reviewing
Don Webb
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Available at Bewildering Press

Bewildering Press
Jack Alcott, Grim Legion
Sam Ivey, Gilboy’s Quest
Martin Kerharo, The Dohani War
Harry Lang, The Mountains of the Eldritch Sea
Danielle L. Parker, In a Pig’s Eye
Slawomir Rapala, Aezubah, the Crimson General
Bertrand Cayzac, Floozman in Space
Michael E. Lloyd, Donna’s Men
Michael E. Lloyd, Missing Emilie
Michael E. Lloyd, Observation One
Michael E. Lloyd, Observation Two
Michael E. Lloyd, Observation Three

Bewildering Press

Grim Legion   Gilboy's Quest   The Dohani War   Mountains of the Eldritch Sea

Donna's Men Missing Emilie   Observation One   Observation Two   Observation Three

In a Pig's Eye   The Crimson General   Floozman in Space   Floozman dans l'espace

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