Several dozen BCS stories from 2016 made the 2016 Recommended Reading List at Tangent Online, the long-running F/SF short fiction review site: thirty-two BCS stories and novelettes total, over the array of tiers on their list.

At the list’s initial tier, the BCS pieces so honored are:

• “Told By An Idiot” by K. J. Parker (BCS #192; our 400th story!)
• “Call and Answer, Plant and Harvest” by Cat Rambo (BCS #194 Science-Fantasy Month 3)
• “They Said the Desert” by A. T. Greenblatt (BCS #199)
• “Laws of Night and Silk” by Seth Dickinson (BCS #200)
• “Blood Reckonings” by Alec Austin (BCS #201)
• “The Nature of Ghosts and the Fate of Shadows” by Luke Nolby (BCS #202)
• “A Deeper Green” by Samantha Murray (BCS #205)
• “The Patchwork Procedure” by Claude Lalumière (BCS #206)
• “The Boy Who Would Not Be Enchanted” by A. M. Dellamonica (BCS #209 Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue)
• “The Judgment of Gods and Monsters” by Kameron Hurley (BCS #200)
• “Nothing But the Sky” by Gwendolyn Clare (BCS #201)

At the one-star tier:

• “And the Blessing of the Angels Came Upon Them” by Dean Wells (BCS #193)
• “The Right Bright Courier” by Anaea Lay (BCS #194 Science-Fantasy Month 3)
• “The Mountains His Crown” by Sarah Pinsker (BCS #195 Science-Fantasy Month 3)
• “Sea of Dreams” by Alter S. Reiss (BCS #196)
• “Mortal Eyes” by Ann Chatham (BCS #202)
• “To Rise No More” by Marie Brennan (BCS #207)
• “A Courtship of Beasts” by Michael Anthony Ashley (BCS #209 Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue)

At the two-star tier:

• “The Three Dancers of Gizari” by Tamara Vardomskaya (BCS #192)
• “A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard (BCS #195 Science-Fantasy Month 3)
• “Rabbit Grass” by Kelly Stewart (BCS #197)
• “Under She Who Devours Suns” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (BCS #204)
• “The Wind Shall Blow” by Gregory Norman Bossert (BCS #209)
• “The Orangery” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (BCS #214)
• “The True and Otherworldly Origins of the Name ‘Calamity Jane’” by Jordan Kurella (BCS #215)

At the three-star tier:

• “The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles” by Rachel K. Jones (BCS #203)
• “The Jeweled Nawab Jungle Retreat” by Priya Sridhar (BCS #214)
• “Where She Went” by Linden A. Lewis (BCS #215)
• “The Book of How to Live” by Rose Lemberg (BCS #209 Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue)
• “Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee (BCS #194 Science-Fantasy Month 3)
• “Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” by Jason Sanford (BCS #195 Science-Fantasy Month 3)
• “George & Frank Tarr, Boy Avencherers, in ‘Beeyon the Shours We Knowe!!!!’” by Thomas M. Waldroon (BCS #207)

Congratulations, all!!