Bewildering Stories’
Annual Review, 2011

The Mariner Awards: issues 413-459

“The place to be at Bewildering Stories”

The launch of Mariner 2
to Venus, August 27, 1962

The Mariner Awards are named for one of the first successful interplanetary missions. The more than 43 titles listed — out of 383 for the year — are the crème de la crème, the ones that the Review Board rated “very good” or “excellent” in 2011. They have earned Bewildering Stories’ most signal honor.

We’re sure that all readers can cite titles they’d like to add to these lists; fair enough. But we’re also confident they’ll find nothing they would omit.

The Annual Review is divided into genres, like the Quarterly Reviews. The titles are listed as in the Quarterly Reviews: alphabetically by author, with multiple titles in chronological order.

Titles all in italics represent serialized works with chapter titles or collections of stories or poems in which more than two titles qualified. One title is in a language other than English although the story itself is in English.

Only the Review Board’s selections are listed here. Since the Departments are selected by the Managing Editor, they remain in the Quarterly Reviews.

As we like to say, “There is no story so truly bewildering as reality.” The Crew of Bewildering Stories wishes our contributors and readers a most pleasantly bewildering New Year!

Everything in green is a link. Links open in a new window, so you won’t lose your place.

Serials Harry Lang, The University of Dreams and Knowledge Hongping Liu, The King of the Forest Flash Fiction Sandra Crook Waving Goodbye Counting the Minutes Gary Inbinder, Deviled Spam Harry Lang His Knives Are Few and Small The Sun Men Ron Van Sweringen, Fresh Strawberries and Cream Poetry David Barber, The Amherst Girl Bill Bowler, The Bee Among the Blossoms Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Letters to the Bat Mike McGonegal, Cold Searing Strings John Stocks Spring Clean Love Letters Lost Short Poetry Allison Grayhurst, Childhood Cracked Essays & Memoirs Bertil Falk, Time Paradoxes... Henry F. Tonn, An Afternoon at Buchenwald	Short Stories Nikki Alfar, The Zombie on Cuenca Street Lou Antonelli, Tell Gilgamesh I’m Sorry Chris Castle, Speech Bub Scott D. Coon, The Laughing Bombs Mike Florian Fire in the Water The Captain of the Reward Terry Groves, Body Work Russell Helms, What Glenda Wanted Gary Inbinder Mr. Nemo and the Dead Bird Endymion Seeds Berdine Jordan, Missing Morgan Margaret Karmazin, Coitus Interruptus Christopher Lee Kneram, The Wreck of The Perihelion Siren Maria Kontak, Painting Faces S. J. McKenzie, The Smith and the Water-Horse Marina J. Neary The Scarlet Mantle stories My Salieri Complex Tamara Podella, Nightmare Jack Diana Pollin L’Embarquement pour Cythère The Condor and the Lizard Cheryl W. Ruggiero, Designer Deities Oscar Sapper, Bright Orion Christopher C. Smith, Icarus Zarin Thomson, A Salient Point Ron Van Sweringen, Rupert and the Girls’ Night Out
The Quarterly Reviews of 2011
Fourth Quarterly Review Editors’ Choices from issues 448-459 Third Quarterly Review Editors’ Choices from issues 436-447	Second Quarterly Review Editors’ Choices from issues 424-435 First Quarterly Review Editors’ Choices from issues 413-423
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