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- Feb 1, 2012 - 9:22 pm
- In conjunction with the release of BCS author Saladin Ahmed's new novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, which features characters who debuted in his story "Where Virtue Lives" in BCS #15, BCS is giving away a hardcover copy of Throne of the Crescent Moon.
To enter the giveaway, reply in the comments thread for "Where Virtue Lives", saying what character from the story, or element about the setting or anything else in the story, that you are most interested in seeing in the novel, and why.
The giveaway ends Wed. Feb. 15. The full rules are here.
Good luck! Enjoy (re)reading the story and the novel. - Jan 26, 2012 - 8:55 am
The Best of BCS, Year Two anthology now available
Issue #87 -- January 26, 2012
Issue also available on Kindle and as Epub, Mobi, or PDF
"The Last Gorgon," by Rajan Khanna
Something moves at the end of the corridor. I raise the gun and stop when I see the small figure, the same soft wings but smaller; coiled serpent hair tight about the head. Little more than a girl. The creature's offspring. What she was protecting.
"The Castle That Jack Built," by Emily Gilman
He had heard rumors, when he was working for the bears, that their prince had fallen in love with a human girl, and that she had been the one to betray him. The prince, the young man who should have been a bear, was the reason why the castle must never fail, the reason why Jack must never speak.
Audio Fiction Podcast 074
"The Lady of the Lake," by E. Catherine Tobler, from BCS #86
This task had not been set to us but to him. How long might one live if they denied a god? Susanoo could not drown me in these waters, nor could a blade pierce my heart, but he commanded all of Yomi, and what tortures he might devise there I did not wish to know.
From the Archives:
"The Circus of King Minos' Masque," by Michael J. DeLuca, from BCS #41Condescension, from a slave, though Periphas. How appropriate. He got up, following the loggerhead along the circus' aisle as it swam. The carvings on its shell were spidery and thin, interconnected traceries meaningless in any language of logic or linear thought. He doubted that an untrained eye, even in the first row, would know them for what they were: the marks of madness bent to will. The symbols of a sorcerer's attention.
- Jan 25, 2012 - 10:37 am
- "Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin" by Adam Callaway, from BCS #73, has been chosen to appear in the anthology Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012, edited by Paula Guran.
This anthology, published by Prime Books, will also include Catherynne M. Valente, Gene Wolfe, and BCS author Yoon Ha Lee.
Congratulations to Adam! "Walls of Paper" is a great, creepy short piece of dark fantasy, and Prime Books's Year's Best are great anthologies. - Jan 24, 2012 - 9:12 am
- Editor and reviewer Rich Horton, who also reviews for Locus, recently posted his year-end review of BCS for 2011.
Among others, he singled out pieces by Peadar Ó Guilín, Rosamund Hodge, Megan Arkenberg, Richard Parks, and Margaret Ronald.
And, again for 2011, he called BCS "a really important source of fantasy."
Thanks very much! - Jan 17, 2012 - 8:47 am
- BCS will be at Epic Confusion, a Detroit-area con, this weekend. Guest of Honor is fantasy novelist Patrick Rothfuss.
Other attendees include BCS authors Cat Rambo ("Love, Resurrected" in BCS #65), Michael J. DeLuca "The Nine-Tailed Cat" in BCS #70), and Saladin Ahmed.
Saladin will also be celebrating the release of his debut fantasy novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon, which features characters who made their first appearance in his BCS story "Where Virtue Lives."
Scott will be at Cat and Saladin's joint reading Friday at 7pm, and in the bar for plenty of the rest of the con. Feel free to say hello!