“BCS is rapidly becoming my favorite short fiction magazine of all time.”
–Lou Anders, Hugo Award-winning editor of Pyr Books
Awards
Finalist, Best Semiprozine, Hugo Awards, 2012
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast, Parsec Awards, 2012
Finalist, WSFA Small Press Award, 2010
- “The Pirate Captain’s Daughter,” by Yoon Ha Lee
Winner, Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story of 2009
- “Father’s Kill,” by Christopher Green
Runner-Up, Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine of 2008
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Reprints
Reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013, ed. Rich Horton
- “The Castle That Jack Built” by Emily Gilman
- “The Governess and the Lobster” by Margaret Ronald
Reprinted in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013, ed. Paula Guran
- “Sinking Among Lilies,” by Cory Skerry
Reprinted in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012, ed. Paula Guran
- “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin,” by Adam Callaway
Reprinted in Steampunk Revolution, ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- “Salvage,” by Margaret Ronald
Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, ed. Sean Wallace
- “A Serpent in the Gears,” by Margaret Ronald
Reprinted in Steampunk Reloaded, ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- “A Serpent in the Gears,” by Margaret Ronald
Honorable Mentions
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- “Dancing the Warrior,” by Marie Brennan
- “In the Gardens of the Night,” by Siobhan Carroll
- “The Nine-Tailed Cat,” by Michael J. DeLuca
- “Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping,” by Geoffrey Maloney
- “The Tiger’s Turn” and “The Ghost of Shinoda Forest,” by Richard Parks
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- “Lady of the Ghost Willow,” by Richard Parks
- “Beloved of the Sun,” by Ann Leckie
- “The Curse of Chimère,” by Tony Pi
Recommended Reading, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011, ed. Rich Horton
- “A Serpent in the Gears,” by Margaret Ronald
- “Sanji’s Demon,” by Richard Parks
- “Lady of the Ghost Willow,” by Richard Parks
- “The Six Skills of Madame Lumiere,” by Marissa Lingen
- “Beloved of the Sun,” by Ann Leckie
- “The Leafsmith in Love,” by K.J. Kabza
- “More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand,” by Rosamund Hodge
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- “In the Age of Iron and Ashes,” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Great, Golden Wings,” by Rachel Swirsky
- “Songdogs,” by Ian McHugh
- “Thieves of Silence,” by Holly Phillips
- “The Mansion of Bones,” by Richard Parks
- “The Tinyman and Caroline,” by Sarah L. Edwards
- “The Orangery,” by K.D. Wentworth
- “Silk and Shadow,” by Tony Pi
Recommended Reading, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009, ed. Rich Horton
- “Architectural Constants,” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Sword of Loving Kindness,” by Chris Willrich
Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- “The Crystal Stair,” by Charles Coleman Finlay and Rae Carson Finlay
- “Sun Magic, Earth Magic,” by David D. Levine
- “The Sword of Loving Kindness,” by Chris Willrich
Locus Recommended Reading List
- “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin,” by Adam Callaway
- “The Isthmus Variation,” by Kris Millering
- “Thieves of Silence,” by Holly Phillips
Million Writers Award
Notable Stories of 2011:
- “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin,” by Adam Callaway
- “The Nine-Tailed Cat,” by Michael J. DeLuca
- “Playing for Amarante,” by A. B. Treadwell
Notable Stories of 2010:
- “The Isthmus Variation,” by Kris Millering
- “Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood,” by Aliette de Bodard
Notable Stories of 2009:
- “The Pirate Captain’s Daughter,” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Mathematics of Faith,” by Jonathan Wood
- “Thieves of Silence,” by Holly Phillips
- “The Orangery,” by K.D. Wentworth
Notable Stories of 2008:
- “The Crystal Stair,” by Charles Coleman Finlay and Rae Carson Finlay
- “Architectural Constants,” by Yoon Ha Lee