Bewildering Stories’
Annual Review, 2015

Year 14 of Bewildering Stories

The Mariner Awards: issues 602-648

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

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

The 42 titles listed — out of 320 for the year — are the ones that the Review Board has rated most highly in 2015. 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. Discussions are welcome at Bewildering Stories.

Like the Quarterly Reviews, the Annual Review lists titles alphabetically by author and multiple titles in chronological order. The year was enlivened by thoughtful discussions. However, the Departments remain in the Quarterly Reviews and are easily accessible.

We resume regular publication with issue 649 on January 4, 2016. 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!

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Serials Kochava Greene, Incident at St. Laurita’s Eleanor Lerman, What If There Is a Hidden World That We Can’t See? Bill Prindle, Mr. Beelzy’s Trick
Short Stories
Gary Clifton, Circles in the Sand Jason A. Feingold, Grad Student Detective Ada Fetters, Colorblind Chameleon Mike Florian, The Man in the Fedora Daniel Ross Goodman, The End of Days Cathrin Hagey, Baug's Hollow Bill Kowaleski, Knots	Andrey Kuzmichev, Duty Free Bill Prindle, Cogito, ergo Sim sum William B. Squirrell, Fighting in the Streets of the City of Time Henry F. Tonn, Legs to Die For E. H. Young, It Brought the Snow
Flash Fiction Charles C. Cole, A Message Served Cold Something More for Winter Dwight Janko Saves the Human Race A Grampa’s Tale Neighbors at the Gates Sisters of Promise Near Isleboro Drama Charles C. Cole, Everybody Wins The Call from Mountainview Road Until Next Time Fire Fly The All-In Game Deegan Meets Jell-O Man Happee Halloween	Poetry & Short Poetry Mike Acker, Pomegranate Guts Alan Edward Ahern Flying Moving Waters Lana Bella, A Night in Harlem Gary Inbinder, De Bevitate Vitae Oonah V. Joslin, The Long Wave Carmen Ruggero, Living the Fantasy Don Webb, The Absurd of the Theatre The Glass Jar Present Essays & Memoirs Boghos L. Artinian & Don Webb, Morphic Resonance Mike Florian, Fritz Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, A Walk Around Town