In addition to Caroline M. Yoachim’s story “Carnival Nine” from BCS #225 and podcast BCS 196 voted a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, a bunch of BCS authors had other works voted finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards, in a fantastic variety of categories!

• Yoon Ha Lee (“The Starship and the Temple Cat” in BCS #244 and podcast BCS 210, “Foxfire, Foxfire” in BCS #194 and podcast BCS 168,“Two to Leave” in BCS #174 and podcast BCS 151, “The Book of Locked Doors” in BCS #91 and podcast BCS 078, among many others) for Best Novel and Best Novelette

• Ann Leckie (“Beloved of the Sun” in BCS #54) for Best Novel

• Sarah Pinkser (“Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing” in BCS #246, “The Mountains His Crown” in BCS #195 and podcast BCS 171) for Best Novella and Best Novelette

• Aliette de Bodard (“A Salvaging of Ghosts” in BCS #195 and podcast BCS 170, “The Breath of War” in BCS #142 and podcast BCS 121, “The Moon Over Red Trees” in BCS #157 and podcast BCS 136, and many others) for Best Novelette

• Suzanne Palmer (“Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken” in BCS #181 and podcast BCS 158) for Best Novelette

• 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) for Best Short Story

• Saladin Ahmed (“Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride” in BCS #43 and podcast BCS 039, “Where Virtue Lives” in BCS #15) for Best Graphic Story

• Charles Payseur (“Rivers Run Free” in BCS #230 and podcast BCS 201) for Best Fan Writer

• Marie Brennan (“The Şiret Mask” in BCS #238 and podcast BCS 206, “To Rise No More” in BCS #207; “The Ascent of Unreason” in BCS #104 and podcast BCS 089, plus two other Driftwood stories; “And Blow Them at the Moon” in BCS #50 and podcast BCS 044; among ten others) for Best Series

Congratulations, all!