The 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List includes, in addition to the nine BCS stories named to the list, a bunch of BCS authors with recommended stories in other magazines:

Novella:

• P. Djèlí Clark (“A Tale of Woe” in BCS #253)
• Aliette de Bodard (“Court of Birth, Court of Strength” in BCS #261, Tenth Anniversary Month, among a dozen others)
• R.B. Lemberg (“To Balance the Weight of Khalem” in BCS #300, Special Double-Issue, among many others)
• K.J. Parker (“Many Mansions” in BCS #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue, among many others)
• Nghi Vo (“Boiled Bones and Black Eggs” in BCS #275)

Novelette:

• Rebecca Campbell (“The Fall of the Mundaneum” in BCS #235, Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue and podcast BCS 204, among others)
• Aliette De Bodard (again!)
• A.T. Greenblatt (“A Place to Grow” in BCS #225, among others)
• Rich Larson (“The Sniper and I” in BCS #299 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 and podcast BCS 255, among many others)
• Sarah Pinsker (“Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing” in BCS #246 – Science-Fantasy Month 4, among others)
• Catherynne M. Valente (“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” in BCS #200, Special Double-Issue and podcast BCS 178)

Short Story:

• Gregory Norman Bossert (“The Telling” in BCS #109)
• Rae Carson (“The Crystal Stair” in BCS #3, with Charles Coleman Finlay)
• Eleanna Castroianni (“Who Goes Against a Waste of Waters” in BCS #302 and podcast BCS 258, among others)
• Alix E. Harrow (“Do Not Look Back, My Lion” in BCS #270)
• Maria Haskins (“It’s Easy to Shoot A Dog” in BCS #260, among others)
• Dan Micklethwaite (“How the Mighty” in BCS #265)
• Samantha Mills (“Adrianna in Pomegranate” in BCS #271 and podcast BCS 232)
• Natalia Theodoridou (“What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away” in BCS #281 and podcast BCS 242, among others)
• Lavie Tidhar (“The Drowned God’s Heresy” in BCS #314)
• Emma Törzs (“The Widow” in BCS #305 and podcast BCS 261)
• Fran Wilde (“Ruby, Singing” in BCS #261, Tenth Anniversary Month and podcast BCS 224, among several others)

Congratulations, all!

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