“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” by Rose Lemberg, from BCS #175, a tale set in her enveloping and socially complex Birdverse world, is a finalist for the Nebula Award for Novelette.

Congratulations! “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” is a great story of character-centered, secondary-world fantasy; characters moving through a world very different than our own yet in ways that are very human.

Rose’s novelettes set in this Bridverse world have appeared two other times in BCS, including “Geometries of Belonging” in BCS #183, our Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue, and “Held Close in Syllables of Light” in BCS #80.

Other Nebula finalists for work in other venues include multiple BCS authors:

• Fran Wilde (“Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud” in BCS #181 and podcast BCS 157; “The Topaz Marquise” in BCS #152 and podcast BCS 131)
• Ann Leckie (“Beloved of the Sun” in BCS #54)
• Beth Cato (“Stitched Wings” in BCS #137)
• Sam J. Miller (“Alloy Point” in BCS #163 and podcast BCS 140)
• David D. Levine (“Liaisons Galantes: A Scientific Romance” in BCS #108; “Sun Magic, Earth Magic” in BCS #1 and podcast BCS 002)

Along with Tina Connolly (“One Ear Back” in BCS #97 and podcast BCS 084, among several others) and Fran Wilde named finalists for the Andre Norton Award for YA SF/F.

Congratulations to them and all the other finalists!