Bewildering Stories’ Third Quarterly Review, 2008

Editors’ Choices: issues 297-307

Short Stories
The Order of the Hot Potato

Everything in green is a link.

Page 1: Serials, Essays, Memoirs, Departments
Page 2: Poetry, Short Poetry, Flash Fiction, Season’s Best Issues

Selections are listed in alphabetical order by author.

Part IV : Short Stories

Dean Francis Alfar, The Maiden and the Crocodile
Mark Bastable, Just Like the Singing Cod
John Birge, Extinction Burst
Bertrand Cayzac

Floozman and the Old Lady
Floozman Saves a Dog

Gregory W. Ellis, Knock on Wood
J. R. Hume, I, Romeo
Gary Inbinder, Survival Among the Fittest
William J. Piovano, Escapism
Shannon J. Prince, Amorphous Day
Catfish Russ, Silent Moon
Thomas L. J. Smith, Sit-Ups of the Space Marines
E. S. Strout, Last Chance

Part V : The Order of the Hot Potato

And now, since “Bewildering” Stories is a friend of the unconventional, here are the sixteen most controversial works of the quarter, the ones on which the review editors did not reach a consensus for one reason or another. One of the titles appears in the Editors’ Choices; the rest do not.

The titles are listed in descending order with the most controversial first. The links lead to the issues in which they appear.

Thomas R. Willits, The Donor Syndrome
Slawomir Rapala, The Three Kings
Zane Coker, Victim of the Avenues
Travis Moore, Elevator
Lauren C. Freeman, A Free Lunch
Tad Bolmont, Guardian
Avis Hickman-Gibb, Mathematical Principles of Beauty
Terry Larson, Finding My Way
Brian C. Petroziello, The Tower
John Vieczorek, The Achiever
Sarah Ann Watts, Soon
P. I. Barrington, The Faerie Ball
David S. Bernstein, You Never Know What Will Turnip
Chaz Siu, Pruitt’s Dilemma
David H. Hendrickson, A Half-Century of Greatness
Laura G. Weldon, Cemetery Rose

The Hottest-Potato Issues of the Quarter

As a special treat, Bewildering Stories links to
the three most controversial issues of the quarter:

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