Bewildering Stories’
Annual Review, 2014

Year 13 of Bewildering Stories

The Mariner Awards: issues 555-601

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

The Mariner Awards are named for one of the first successful interplanetary missions.

The 40 titles listed — out of 304 for the year — are the ones that the Review Board has rated most highly in 2014. 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 lists titles alphabetically by author and multiple titles in chronological order. The Departments remain in the Quarterly Reviews.

We resume regular publication with issue 602 on January 5, 2015. 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 Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool	Serials LaKimbra McKinley, Hold on to My Feets Danielle L. Parker, The Deathless Hand
Short Stories
Kalliroe Agelopoulou, When Cars Grew Taller Dana Beehr, Ambry Silverstrings and the Gator King Gary Clifton The Never Index The Keeper of the San Lo Gate Richard A. Conine, Lonely Planet Diana Corbitt, Night Games	Jörn Grote, Home, to the Sea Thomas E. Lange, A Vicar's Baptism Don Liddick, Mewly Bob Mike Madison, Distinction in the Darkness Mike McNichols, I Shot Sonny Battalion Mia Tijam, What the Children of Muerta Caxerex Say LaVerne Zocco, Dolores Metcalf, Comforter
Flash Fiction Charles C. Cole A Cosmic Appeal Independences Cemetery Blues Frank Spooner’s Last Words This Means Warma Life, Interrupted Dumb Mowers JD DeHart, Begets Drama Charles C. Cole, The Platonic Friends Society	Poetry & Short Poetry Oonah V. Joslin Day at the Theatre Stored and Restored Robert J. Meindl, Sea Geese John Stocks Finding My Voice Chantry’s Sleeping Children Demolition On the Pilgrim’s Way St. Catherine’s Day Visalakshi Viswanathan, My Doppelganger Thomas F. Wylie, The Empty Seat
Essays & Memoirs Charles C. Cole A Brief Public Rest Alien Abduction Abduction Boris Kokotov, Poetry Reading at a Local Library Thomas Lee Joseph Smith, Bin There, Dumb That Don Webb, James J. O’Donnell, The Ruin of the Roman Empire