Bewildering Stories’
Fourth Quarterly Review, 2013

Editors’ Choices: issues 543-554

Everything in green is a link.

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Novels
Novellas
Serials
Essays & Memoirs
Departments

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Poetry
Short Poetry
Flash Fiction
The Quarter’s Best Issues

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Short Stories
The Order of the Hot Potato
The Quarter’s Most Bewildering Issues
The Order of Merit

Selections are listed in alphabetical order by author.
Multiple titles are listed in chronological order.

Short Stories

Edward Ahern, After Taste Tom Borthwick, Living in the Singularity Ian Cordingley, To the Horizon Sora Edwards-Thro, Pay Attention Heather J. Frederick, Everything Was Winter Shaun Hayes, Mrs. Carmichael's Best O. D. Hegre, The Guardian Prashila Naik, Dream Woman	Adam Natali, A Nun in the Afterlife Emily M. Peters, Experiment Failed Rudy Ravindra, The Ambitious Girl Lilliana Rose, Browsing Clarise Samuels, The Alien of Camelot Gustavo Valitutti, A Man of His Word Ron Van Sweringen, A Key West Diamond Sherri Cook Woosley, Two Sides of a Triangle
Colin W. Campbell, The Chess Player of the Desert Harry Lang, The Ministry of Heavenly Understanding Thomas L. J. Smith, Methinks He Protesteth Too Much Owen J. Traylor, Life and Death in Eaton Square

The Order of the Hot Potato

And now, since “Bewildering” Stories is a friend of the unconventional, here are the ten most controversial works of the quarter, the ones on which the Review Editors’ opinions diverged significantly for one reason or another. The titles are listed in descending order with the most controversial first. Six of the titles appear among the Editors’ Choices.

Oonah V. Joslin, Music to My Ears
Christopher Cornell, Growing Season
Oren Eilam, Poetry's Victory
Shaun Hayes, Mrs. Carmichael's Best
Rudy Ravindra, The Ambitious Girl
Jason C. Ford, Thoughts Following a Storm
Jason C. Ford, A Path Into the Raging Water
Visalakshi Viswanathan, Somewhere in Gundaroo
Channie Greenberg, The Need for Staid Midlifers to Write Bizarro Texts
John F. Keane, Lord of Time

The Hottest-Potato Issues of the Quarter

As a special treat, Bewildering Stories links to the most controversial issues of the quarter, all those that ran an above-average temperature.

The Order of Merit

Here are links to the top winners, the most highly rated works in each genre represented by more than one title in this Quarterly Review. The categories are listed according to their normal order in the Readers’ Guide.

In keeping with Bewildering Stories’ astronomical motif, ties are indicated by the names of space telescopes. The most highly rated title in the quarter is indicated by the name of an arm of the Galaxy.

Short Stories

Hubble
Kepler

Flash Fiction

COROT
James Webb

Poetry

Herschel
Spitzer
Hipparcos
Chandra
Swift

Short Poetry

Odin
Planck

Essays & Memoirs

The Perseus Arm

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