Bewildering Stories’
Annual Review, 2018

Year 17 of Bewildering Stories

The Mariner Awards: issues 743-790

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

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

The 35 titles listed — out of 388 for the year — are the ones that the Review Board has rated most highly in 2018. 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, and we like to publish them.

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 791 on January 7, 2019. 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.

Novellas Edward Ahern, The Witches’ Bane Danko Antolovic, My Name Is Daedalus	Serials Tom Crowley, When Working Memory Retires Robert J. Howe, Pinocchio’s Diary Ronald Linson, Nightburn Tim Miller, The Spoons of Jupiter
Short Stories
Hillary G. Anderson, Life Through Glass Kayla Bashe, The Revolution of Painted Birds Max Christopher, The 101 Domitians Gary Clifton, Take Honor Against a Sea of Troubles Killer Clan As Eternity Whispers Who Murdered Tulsa Rose? Charles C. Cole, The Wizard’s Mule Ada Fetters, Meatspace and MAIA No Do-Overs	Heather J. Frederick, Where Paws Can’t Touch the Ground Bill Kowaleski, Andrew’s Gift To Inferno and Back C. Q. March, Thicker Than Blood Janet E. Sever, Dead Man Working Arthur Whitaker, Happiness for Sale Lewayne L. White, FTPD: Homicide Subodhana Wijereratne, They Meet in the Wall
Flash Fiction
Charles C. Cole, Mirror Twins Don Webb, The Flying Dutchman of MacKinnon Hall
Poetry & Short Poetry
Mike Acker, Out of the Blue Edward Ahern, The Wake Commiserating Poetry Month Bertrand Cayzac, In the City Where Mother Dwelt	Ljubo M. Popovich, Anthem of My American Youth Sounds of Winter Joyce Meggett, On Reading a Bird P. K. Vijayan, He Wrote Her a Love Poem
Essays & Memoirs
Ronald Linson, Ghost Lights