Bewildering Stories’
Annual Review, 2017

Year 16 of Bewildering Stories

The Mariner Awards: issues 696-742

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

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

The 51 titles listed — out of 340 for the year — are the ones that the Review Board has rated most highly in 2017. 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 743 on January 1, 2018. 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 Gary Clifton, The Dead Bin Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards	Novellas Bill Prindle, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Serials Michael Díaz Feito, The Relic-Mongers Joseph McKinley, Perfect Wisdom Berry Blast
Short Stories
Edward Ahern, The Purloined Oil Matthew F. Amati, Defender of the Flesh Dana Beehr, Ambry Silverstrings and Walkin’ Pete Mar Na Carter, Fly, Bird, Fly Charles G. Chettiar, The Cracked Ball Gary Clifton Stiff Katies Hill Country Showdown Due North From Uvalde New Guns in the Valley Dance Hall Bounty Hunters Border Jumpers	Rob Dinsmoor, The World in Gunnar’s Barn Patrick Doerksen, There Will Be No Puppy Ada Fetters, TradeWinds Ken Goldman, Busy Old Fool, Unruly Sun Ahmed A. Khayyat, Do You Wish To Proceed? Harry Lang, Down to the Wild Blue Yonder Stuart North, To Free a Ghost Anna O’Brien, The Data Eaters Nick Pipitone, City of Dogs Ljubo Popovich, Eve in the Belly of the Whale Bill Prindle, Cat With a Young Woman Hayleigh Santra, The Young Cloudmaker R. W. Warwick, Troubleshooting Your Deathtec Megaton Death Ray
Flash Fiction Gary Clifton, Home Free Charles C. Cole A Boy and His Kite An Early Teacher Collision Course Performance Art in Hollywood Ed Kyatt, What Good Is Arithmetic?	Drama Charles C. Cole Now Departing Wet Coriander Once More, With Feeling
Poetry & Short Poetry
Mike Acker, Late Evening Walk Edward Ahern The Explanation Yard Party Shola Balogun, I, Too, Shall Anoint the Stones	Crystalwizard, Autumn’s Art Stephen Ellams, The Art of Letting Go Karin S. Heigl, Wicked Honey Oonah V. Joslin, Men of Passchendaele Anna Ruiz, Euclid Avenue Marjorie Sadin, Autumn Passion
Essays & Memoirs
Behrang Foroughi, Manhattan in the Rain Camille Parker, Muttawain Don Webb, First Contact in a Coffee Cup