The 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List includes, in addition to the four BCS stories names to the list, a bunch of BCS authors with recommended stories in other magazines:

Novella:

• Cassandra Khaw (“She Who Hungers, She Who Waits,” forthcoming Spring 2018)
• Margaret Killjoy (“Men of the Ashen Morrow” in BCS #218 and podcast BCS 190)
• K.J. Parker (“Told By An Idiot” in BCS#192, “Heaven Thunders The Truth” in BCS #157, “The Thought That Counts” forthcoming in BCS #250, April 2018)
• Sarah Pinsker (“The Mountains His Crown” in BCS #195 – Science-Fantasy Month 3 and podcast BCS 171, and “Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing” forthcoming in BCS #246 – Science-Fantasy Month 4, March 2018)

Novelette:

• Aliette de Bodard (“A Salvaging of Ghosts” in BCS #195 – Science-Fantasy Month 3 and podcast BCS 170, “The Moon Over Red Trees” in BCS #157 and podcast BCS 136, “The Breath of War” in BCS #142 – Science-Fantasy Month 2 and podcast BCS 121, among many others)
• Rich Larson (“The Delusive Cartographer” in BCS #187, “The King in the Cathedral” in Issue #166 and podcast BCS 144, and “Penitents” forthcoming in BCS #245 – Science-Fantasy Month 4)
• Yoon Ha Lee (“The Starship and the Temple Cat” in BCS #244 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 and podcast BCS 210, “Foxfire, Foxfire” in BCS #194 – Science-Fantasy Month 3 and podcast BCS 168, “The Book of Locked Doors” in BCS #91 – Science-Fantasy Month and podcast BCS 078, among many others)
• Suzanne Palmer (“Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken” in BCS #181 and podcast BCS 158)
• Sarah Pinsker (again!)
• Alex Wells/Alex Acks (“The Book of Autumn” in BCS #49)

Short Story:

• Cassandra Khaw (again!)
• Matthew Kressel (“Pheth’s Aviary” in BCS #133; “The Suffering Gallery” in BCS #57)
• Greg Kurzawa (“Masks of the Mud God” in BCS #213; “The Study of Monstrosities” in BCS #127 and podcast: BCS 109)
• Rich Larson (again!)
• Sam J. Miller (“Alloy Point” in BCS #163 and podcast BCS 140)

Congratulations, all!

Locus online’s page for the Recommended List this year also has links to all of the recommended fiction that is available online, so you can read these great authors’ stories that appeared in other online magazines.