The readers of Locus magazine in their reader poll have named BCS and several of our stories from 2016 finalists for the Locus Awards!

• “Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee, from BCS #194 Science-Fantasy Month 3 and podcast BCS 168, for Novelette

• “A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard, from BCS #195 – Science-Fantasy Month 3 and podcast BCS 170, for Short Story

• BCS, for Magazine

BCS authors named finalists for their work elsewhere, novels or short fiction, included:

• Kat Howard (“The Calendar of Saints” in BCS #79)
• Yoon Ha Lee (“Two to Leave” in BCS 174 & podcast BCS 151, among many others)
• David D. Levine (“Liaisons Galantes: A Scientific Romance” in BCS #108; “Sun Magic, Earth Magic” in BCS #1 and podcast BCS 002)
• Carrie Vaughn (“I Have Been Drowned in Rain” in BCS #223 and podcast BCS 194; “Sun, Stone, Spear” in BCS#169 and podcast BCS 146)
• Catherynne M. Valente (“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” in BCS #200 and podcast BCS 178)
• 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)

Congratulations, all!