For BCS readers interested in making nominations for this year’s Hugo Awards, here are details on how you can become eligible to nominate, how to nominate, and what BCS stories are eligible.
Thanks very much for considering us and our stories!
How to Become Eligible to Nominate
To become eligible to make nominations, you must be either have purchased a full membership or the less expensive non-attending membership to Sasquan (the 2015 Worldcon) or MidAmericon 2 (the 2016 Worldcon in Kansas City) as of January 31, 2015, or you must have been a member of last year’s Worldcon, Loncon 3.
Sasquan’s webpage on the Hugos has an online nomination form. (You will need your con membership info.)
Deadline to Nominate:
You must have your nominations in by Tuesday 10 March 2015, 11.59 pm PDT.
What BCS Stories are Eligible:
Everything published in 2014, which is BCS #138 through BCS #163, inclusive.
Here are a few of our best-reviewed stories of 2014, and which Hugo category they fit in. For a list of all eligible BCS stories and their categories, see the bottom of this post. BCS itself is eligible for the Best SemiProZine Hugo, where we were a finalist the past two years.
Best Short Story:
“Crossroads and Gateways” by Helen Marshall
“Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation” by Seth Dickinson
“The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard (named to the 2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
Best Novelette:
“Women in Sandstone” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“Heaven Thunders The Truth” by K.J. Parker
“The Leaves Upon Her Falling Light” by Gregory Norman Bossert
“The Bonedrake’s Penance” by Yoon Ha Lee
“The Days When Papa Takes Me to War” by Rahul Kanakia (named to the 2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
Best Semiprozine:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
For more information on Hugo nomination process and how to nominate, see Sasquan’s Hugo Instructions.
All Hugo-Eligible Stories from BCS
Here is the full list of all BCS stories that are eligible for the Hugo Awards, and what official Hugo category they are in.
If you’re interested in other eligible short fiction, check out our authors’ other stories in other magazines, like the ones listed in our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts.
Best Short Story:
“Alloy Point” by Sam J. Miller
“Until The Moss Has Reached Our Lips” by Matt Jones
“A House of Gold and Steel” by Marissa Lingen
“Goatskin” by K.C. Norton
“Sweet Death” by Margaret Ronald (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“We Were Once of the Sky” by Yosef Lindell (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Streetking” by Peter Hickman
“The Burned Man” by Hannah Strom-Martin
“The Rugmaker’s Lovers” by Brynn MacNab
“The Sorrow of Rain” by Richard Parks
“The Moon Over Red Trees” by Aliette de Bodard
“Butterfly House” by Gwendolyn Clare
“The Good Deaths, Part II” by Angela Ambroz
“No Sweeter Art” by Tony Pi (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“By Appointment to the Throne” by Alter S. Reiss
“The Angel Azrael Delivers Justice to the People of the Dust” by Peter Darbyshire
“Five Fruits I Ate in Sandar Land” by Michael Haynes
“The Topaz Marquise” by Fran Wilde
“What Needs to Burn” by Sylvia Anna Hiven
“Crossroads and Gateways” by Helen Marshall
“The Manor of Lost Time” by Richard Parks
“The Black Waters of Lethe” by Oliver Buckram
“Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands” by Vylar Kaftan
“Silver and Seaweed” by Greg Linklater
“The Use and the Need” by M. Bennardo
“Celestial Venom” by Garnett Elliot
“We, As One, Trailing Embers” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Here Be Monsters” by Carrie Patel
“The Lighthouse Keepers” by Nicole M. Taylor
“At the Edge of the Sea” by Raphael Ordoñez
“Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation” by Seth Dickinson
“The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The River Does Not Run” by Rachel Sobel (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“Pilgrims” by Ann Chatham
“Atonement” by Alec Austin
“Evensong, Having Been Answered” by Dean Wells
“Enginesong” by Nathaniel Lee
Best Novelette:
“A Guest of the Cockroach Club” by M. Bennardo (named to the 2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“Drawn Up From Deep Places” by Gemma Files
“The Leaves Upon Her Falling Light” by Gregory Norman Bossert
“Heaven Thunders The Truth” by K.J. Parker
“Written on the Hides of Foxes” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“Seeing” by Stephen V. Ramey
“Make No Promises” by Rachel Halpern
“Rappaccini’s Crow” by Cat Rambo
“The Inked Many” by Adam Callaway (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Unborn God” by Stephen Case (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Dreams of Wan Li” by Andrea Stewart
“Our Fire, Given Freely” by Seth Dickinson
“Women in Sandstone” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Bonedrake’s Penance” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Stonebones” by Nathaniel Lee (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Days When Papa Takes Me to War” by Rahul Kanakia (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Face in the Window” by Brian McClellan (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“Sweetwater Notion and the Hallelujah Kid” by K.C. Ball (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
“The Year of Silent Birds” by Siobhan Carroll (2014 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List)
Best Novella:
“The Goddess Deception” by Dean Wells
Best Semiprozine:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Thanks very much for considering us and our stories!