BCS and a number of our stories received prominent mention in the year-end summaries offered by the two major online reviewers in the F/SF short fiction field, Tangent Online and Lois Tilton at Locus online.

Tangent Online shortlisted fifteen pieces from BCS in their 2014 Recommended Reading List, including many with their additional one, two, or three-star rating:

Short Stories:

“No Sweeter Art” by Tony Pi

“The River Does Not Run” by Rachel Sobel*

“Silver and Seaweed” by Greg Linklater*

“We Were Once of the Sky” by Yosef Lindell*

“Sweet Death” by Margaret Ronald*

“The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard**

Novelettes:

“The Year of Silent Birds” by Siobhan Carroll

“The Days When Papa Takes Me to War” by Rahul Kanakia

“The Inked Many” by Adam Callaway

“Sweetwater Notion and the Hallelujah Kid” by K.C. Ball*

“The Face in the Window” by Brian McClellan*

“Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew*

“Stonebones” by Nathaniel Lee**

“The Unborn God” by Stephen Case***

“A Guest of the Cockroach Club” by M. Bennardo***

In addition, Locus online short fiction reviewer Lois Tilton in her year-end review of short fiction from 2014 called BCS “a long-running success” and singled out several of our stories, all of which had received her “Recommended” rating in her original reviews:

Short Stories:

“Crossroads and Gateways” by Helen Marshall

“The Sorrow of Rain” by Richard Parks

Novelettes:

“Heaven Thunders The Truth” by K.J. Parker

“Make No Promises” by Rachel Halpern

Thanks very much, and congratulations, all!