Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction 31, the latest volume in that long-running and prestigious annual anthology series, again this year included fantasy stories in its  honorable mentions.

The BCS stories singled out were:

• “Misbegotten” by Raphael Ordoñez, from BCS #113 and Audio Fiction Podcast BCS 097

• “The Penitent” by M Bennardo, from BCS #122 and Audio Fiction Podcast BCS 106

• “On the Origin of Song” by Naim Kabir, from BCS #131, Fifth Anniversary Double-Issue

Other BCS authors mentioned in his preface comments about BCS included Richard Parks, Gemma Files, and Marissa Lingen.

Congratulations, all! And thank you again to Mr. Dozois for including fantasy in his honorable mentions, in the years since the discontinuation of the major year’s best fantasy anthology, so that worthy fantasy stories can get such notice.