Bewildering Stories’
Annual Review, 2013

The Mariner Awards: issues 508-554

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

The Mariner Awards are named for one of the first successful interplanetary missions. The titles listed — out of 361 for the year — are the ones that the Review Board has rated most highly in 2013. They have earned Bewildering Stories’ most signal honor.

We know that all readers can cite other titles they feel belong on these lists; fair enough. Please write and tell us what else you would include and, most importantly, why. But we are also confident you’ll find none you would omit.

Like the Quarterly Reviews, the Annual Review is divided into genres with titles listed alphabetically by author and multiple titles in chronological order. Titles all in italics represent either serialized works with chapter titles or collections of poems in which more than two titles qualified. The Departments remain in the Quarterly Reviews.

We resume regular publication with issue 555 on January 6, 2014. Meanwhile, 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.

Novels Martin Kerharo, The Dohani War	Novellas Mark Bonica, Spiraling In
Serials Bill Bowler, The House of Mammoth Bones	Flash Fiction Heather Frederick, The Talk
Essays Mike Florian Behind the Masaredos Winds Calm and Variable Robert J. Meindl, Reading Devastation: the Message of the Ruins Garin G. Webb, The Devil in Blues, Ragtime and Jazz
Poetry & Short Poetry
David Barber, Ruben de la Vialle, 1660 Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Timewave Zero Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu Over Stones Childhood Trifles Easter Eve Afzal Moolla, The Sound of Distant Ankle Bells Piyush Pandey, Why Farewell Comes First Carmen Ruggero, The Scent of You	John Stocks First Dance Love in Puddles Croeso Laugharne Cry a Little Flesh and Blood Death in Transdanubia Eloise, a Girl on Film
Short Stories
Jack Alcott, The Jaggers S. Decoteaux Bates, The Borromean Cycle Phil Davies, The Arianthids Mike Florian, The Oarsmen of Crete Christopher T. Garry, Flame Bound Shaun Hayes, Mrs. Carmichael’s Best Romney S. Humphrey, The Northwest Corner Pool Gary Inbinder, Beyond Dead End Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Lucy of the Valley Bill Kowaleski, Critical Mass Arthur Mackeown Lover Boy The Banker of Bread M. E. McMullen, Atonally Yours Zac Miller, Age of Reception Danielle L. Parker, A Dream Within Leonard Schlenz, You Crack Me Up S. L. Scott, Zombies Are Easier S. E. Sever, Kuiper Court Ross Smeltzer, The Landscape Sherri Cook Woosley, Two Sides of a Triangle Tatyana Yankovskaya, If She Hadn't Learned to Knit