Bewildering Stories’
Fourth Quarterly Review, 2012

The Editors’ Choices: issues 496-507

“The place to be at Bewildering Stories”

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Bewildering Stories ends the season — fall or spring, depending on your hemisphere — with the Review Editors’ selection of favorites from the fourth quarter of 2012. 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.

The Quarterly Reviews are not a contest, competition or poll. The Review Editors vote according to their estimate of each work’s success on its own terms. And there are no quotas: anything — from everything to nothing — in any genre may qualify.

As always, the Review Board’s discussions have been extensive and lively. A big Thank You to Bill Bowler, Bertil Falk, Gary Inbinder, Maria Kontak, Harry Lang, Michael E. Lloyd, Johanna Miklós, Marina J. Neary, Carmen Ruggero, John Stocks 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 926 votes on 96 titles, 55 of which have qualified as Editors’ Choices. We congratulate the authors represented here. Their works have well earned the honor. We hope they will inspire all our contributors.

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 16 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 works in genres represented by more than one title in this Quarterly Review.

Next week we’ll bring you the Mariner Awards: the 2012 Annual Review. Regular publication resumes with issue 508 on January 7, 2013.

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
Novels Novellas Serials Short Stories Flash Fiction	3 of 3 28 of 50 3 of 10	Poetry Short Poetry Drama Essays & Memoirs	15 of 22 5 of 9 1 of 1 0 of 1		Departments The Quarter’s Best Issues The Order of the Hot Potato The Quarter’s Most Bewildering Issues The Order of Merit

Selections are listed in alphabetical order by author unless noted otherwise.
Multiple titles are listed in chronological order.
Italicized titles indicate collections or the presence of chapter, episode or poem subtitles.
All serialized works must have concluded in or before the last issue of the quarter in order to be eligible.

Serials	Bill Bowler, Psychotropic Attack Bertil Falk, The Saga of the Stolen Wooden God Jacob Peppers, A Rune Scribe’s Past

Departments

Selections are listed in alphabetical order by author; multiple titles, in chronological order. Titles in The Reading Room are listed on our Reviews page; interviews, in our Interviews index. The Art Gallery is not included.

Editorials
Bill Bowler, The Strugatsky Brothers Don Webb, Globalspeak and Realism
Challenges	Challenge Responses
Indirect Goals Off the Road On a Halifax Pier Remeandering All In at the Turn Ticking Off the Clock Same Time, Some Place	Who Is This Latter-Day Lady Godiva? What Are the “Moaners”?